NBRRI partners Hydraform Company on block making machines
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By Constance Athekame
Abuja, Sept. 28, 2016 (NAN) The Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) and Hydraform International, a South African company are partnering in the fabrication of high standard interlocking block making machines.
The statement is issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr Peter Mashem, the Public Relations Officer of NBBRI.
The statement said that the two organisations agreed to partner when the Chairman, Mr Robert Platter and the the company, and Managing Director, Mr Abdulhakeem Huthman visited the Director-General of NBBRI, Prof. Danladi Matawal .
The agreement was for NBBRI to perfect its interlocking block making machines to create jobs for the teaming jobless Nigerian youths.
The statement quoted Platter as saying that the company was ready to partner with NBBRI in the areas of machine fabrication and job creation.
He called on NBRRI to take the lead in tackling the challenges in the area of housing affordability in the country.
The Hydraform boss said that both organisations would be able to handle technological transfer, training and export interlocking block making machines to other Africa countries, especially within the West Africa coast.
Platter said that his company had built over 5,000 housing units using the alternative building material and over 4,000 housing units in Abuja alone.
He said that the company had worked in Jigawa, Anambra, Enugu, Yobe, Lagos, FCT and some other states in Nigeria.
Similarly, the Managing Director of Hydraform, Huthman said that NBRRI-Hydraform collaboration “is a relationship that will bring so many good things to the country as both companies will also benefit from the numerous researches of the institute.’’
Responding, the DG of NBRRI told the delegates that housing had become a very critical issue in Nigeria; hence the collaboration with Hydraform international was a welcomed development.
Matawal said that the relationship would among other things tackle poverty through provision of housing using Malawi experience.
“Nigeria should be ready to use the technology using bricks blocks to replace mould houses all over the country,’’ he said.
He said that the collaboration should be a win-win thing, urging both organisations not to see themselves as rivals but instead they should complement each other for the benefit of the country. (NAN)
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Edited/Controlled by Grace Yussuf