Minister of Industry: We will continue to support industrial facilities to ensure the continuity and development of production

Homs (ST): The Minister of Industry, Dr. Abdul Qadir Jokhadar, was briefed on the reality of work and production in a number of industrial facilities in Homs governorate in the textile, engineering, food and chemical sectors. The tour included Al-Waleed Spinning Companies, the General Dairy Company, the General Sugar Company, the yeast factory, and a number of industrial facilities in the industrial city of Hassya and in Shinshar Industrial Zone.

In a statement to reporters during the tour, Minister Jokhadar stressed the importance of continuing the production process in the textile factories that characterize the province, in order to secure the local market’s need for textile yarns, pointing in this regard to securing approximately 4,700 tons of raw cotton, for distribution to public sector facilities, and securing yarns, cotton for industrialists.

Minister Jokhadar praised the progress of work in the yeast factory to ensure the material and its distribution to Syrian bakeries, and the production of the dairy company, which reached nearly five thousand tons per day of milk derivatives, pointing to the ministry’s intention to increase production by importing additional quantities of milk, and marketing the products through affiliated outlets.

The Minister of Industry referred to the efforts of the owners of private sector establishments in the industrial city in Hassya and the industrial zone in Shinshar, and their insistence on continuing the production wheel, expanding their facilities horizontally and increasing production lines, pointing out that more than 100 administrative licenses have been granted to industrial facilities in Hassya, as the ministry is working on following up on granting industrialists the necessary licenses and securing production requirements.

In a similar statement, the Director of Hassya Industrial City, Eng. Muhammad Amer Khalil, referred to the growing volume of investments in the city with the entry of 47 new investors, bringing the total number of investors to 1015 investors, while continuing to provide all facilities and launching the electronic payment service.

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