DAMASCUSs, (ST) – The General Company of Tires “Aphamea” in Hama and the Chinese company “Kamk” signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the rehabilitation of machinery, equipment and materials for producing the necessary and popular measurements in the local market and the installation of new machinery in the building of the Ministry of Industry.
The memo included the continuation of cooperation and exchange of information between the two parties as an access to make an offer leads to the rehabilitation of machinery, equipment and materials in the General Company of Tires where the Chinese company offers a loan of credit for the tire company covers 85 percent of the value of the project in order to fund the works of development and rehabilitation.
The memo provided to supply modern production lines to produce new measurements of tires within the international standards equivalent to 18 thousand tons per year with the work on the development of 9 thousand tons of light and heavy tires in order to improve quality and increase production capacity and competitiveness.
According to the memo, the Chinese company, before submitting its offer, will send a technical delegation to see the reality of working in the tire company and with a proposal to send a technical delegation from the Syrian side to visit China and see the company’s activity in the tire industry.
The two sides agreed that the Kamk company will train and qualify the Syrian caders according to a program submitted with the offer and to sign a separate contract to provide technical and technological support for the Hama ompany upon request.
The MoU was signed by the General Director of Aphamea Company, Eng. Samer Haider, and the Chinese side by Project Director of Kamk, Zhang Iksan.
During his talks with the representatives of the Chinese company, the Industry Minister, Kamal EdineTome, stressed the importance of benefiting from the company’s offer to develop the work, machinery and production lines from the technical and technological aspects and the development of production in Aphamea company to meet the needs of the local market.
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