Jubilee Dev-Rivatex starts 3 billion upgrade and will employ 10,000 workers

[SIZE=6]Rivatex starts Sh3bn upgrade this month[/SIZE]

TUESDAY MAY 1 2018

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Rivatex expects to create thousands of jobs after the modernisation. FILE photo | nmg
In Summary
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[li]Rivatex has completed putting up infrastructure where new machines are expected to be installed, paving the way for the process.[/li][li]Indian firm Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd will install the new machines in a process that Rivatex targets will give it an edge in the market.[/li][li]The modernisation of the two departments is expected to create 10,000 new jobs as it targets to produce textile to meet the local and foreign markets.[/li][/ul]
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By GERALD ANDAE

Eldoret-based Rivatex Company will this month launch a multibillion-shilling modernisation using a credit line facility provided by India. First Secretary and Head of Chancery at the Indian High Commission R. Chandramouli says Rivatex has completed putting up infrastructure where new machines are expected to be installed, paving the way for the process. Installation of the machines was delayed until some of the works at the factory are completed, Mr Chandramouli said.

“The upgrade of Rivatex is expected to commence in May as everything is now in place,” he said end of last month.

The official said 20 per cent of the funds have been disbursed to the factory, which has been underperforming because of obsolete technology and lack of raw materials. The money is part of the Sh3.016 billion the company secured as a grant from the Indian for technology transfer and purchase of new machines. The loan was extended to the country following the visit by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kenya in 2017. Indian firm Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd will install the new machines in a process that Rivatex targets will give it an edge in the market.

READ: Rivatex bets on upgrade to generate 10,000 jobs

The modernisation of the two departments is expected to create 10,000 new jobs as it targets to produce textile to meet the local and foreign markets. The company used to produce millions of tonnes of fabric before it was placed under receivership in year 2000 following massive mismanagement. The fabric consisted of 5.5 million metres of dyed cotton, 7.7 million metres of printed cotton, 1.17 and 0.55 million metres of dyed and printed polyester viscose respectively.
Kenya produces 30,000 bales annually against spinning capacity of about 10,000 metric tonnes of lint. To bridge the gap, Kenya imports substantial amounts of cotton lint and seed cake for local textile mills and feed manufacture, mainly from Uganda and Tanzania. In 1970s and 1980s when cotton farming was second in the country in terms of employment after public service, Bura used to produce 30 per cent of the national production

Indian machines have never made it anywhere. Another money losing venture, much like the sugar factories.

Hope that it will not be another project that will not stand the test of time.

Ikiamka ni poa watu wanukishe kitunguu na cotton farming.

I went to Mpeketoni some time in 2005. I was saddened to see cotton
processing machinery rusting under the exposure of the elements.
The machinery was owned by the Mombasa tycoon TSS. Many must
have lost their livelihoods.

Madhvani wa Kakira Sugar UG??

Menengai Soap Factory in Nakuru??

Yule jamaa wa Bhachu Trailers ni Mhindi (i dont know)??

Multiple Hauliers nao ni wahindi???

This is a good start, however we have a small cottage industry that make’s high quality throws and wraps etc using traditional methods and weaving looms, it is these groups of indigenous Kenyans that need support to mechanise and move into production of quality blankets and other items.

When the indigenous population begin to convert aspects of tradition craft into production then development will be more routed, most of the resources will remain within the community to extend growth elsewhere. The Indian repatriate profits to Indian and the west, only the little wages of hand to mouth.
2030 vision really ought to consider a strategy of empowering Kenyans to re-engineer development.

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This is exciting news because this is an investment that impacts economy directly. I hope they can even revive Kisumu Cotton Mills and other factories that used to be around in the 1980’s. Too many young men need jobs

10000 new direct jobs is great for Eldoret.

Good jobs too which is a great thing.
Did you find it curious that USA is very angry that Rwanda is banning second hand clothes?

Haya maneno tumezoea…all the government owned factories previously ran well have now become conduits for siphoning public funds…
Anyways they should consider re-opening Mountex too…

We sell them new cloths at a premium and they insist they sell us used cloths. Well if we allow our garment industry to sell new cloths here and pay taxes for it like last year, it will be well and good.

Good job jubilee thumbs up