{"id":168616,"date":"2010-01-12T03:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1043667"},"modified":"2010-01-12T03:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T08:30:57","slug":"industrial-zone-wonji-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/168616","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Zone | Wonji | Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"margin:20px; margin-top:5px; \">\n<div class=\"smallfont\" style=\"margin-bottom:2px\">Quote:<\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"alt2\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWonji, a town in Oromia region, located 100km to the east of Addis Ababa, is going to host an industrial zone built by Elsewedy, a giant Egyptian cable firm.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewedy requested MoTI&#8217;s approval of <b>two million square metres of land for the construction of the industrial zone<\/b> three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The company began its operations in Ethiopia three years ago in partnership with the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation to jointly produce a digital electric meter. This project led it to realise the country&#8217;s huge electric cable demand and construct Elsewedy Cables Ethiopia Plc, an electric cable factory built at a cost of 200 million birr in Dukem, a town 35 km east of Addis Ababa in Oromia Regional State.<\/p>\n<p>Following this,<b> it intended to build an industrial zone in Dukem, however, the ministry was not willing, owing to its desire to spread industry around the country.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With this intention, the ministry recommended Elsewedy opt for Kombolcha, a town located 376 km north east of Addis Ababa in Amhara. However, the town&#8217;s distance from the capital made Elsewedy reject the proposition, according to ministry sources.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a deal has been struck for the zone to be established in Wonji, which is another industrial town near Dukem.<\/p>\n<p>The investment office of the region and the company are now looking for plots suitable for the site that is expected to host <b>40 companies.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Elsewedy International, established in 1981, is the leading integrated manufacturer of cables in Egypt and one of two cable manufacturers in the Middle East with production facilities in nine Middle Eastern and African countries.<\/p>\n<p><b>A Chinese company was the leader in establishing an industrial zone in Ethiopia, recently followed by a Turkish firm.<br \/>\nAn Indian company is also in the process of building an industrial zone in Kombolcha.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalethiopia.com\/index.php?view=article&amp;id=12125%3Awonji-to-host-egyptian-industrial-zone&amp;option=com_content&amp;Itemid=4\" >http:\/\/www.capitalethiopia.com\/index&#8230;ntent&amp;Itemid=4<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote: Wonji, a town in Oromia region, located 100km to the east of Addis Ababa, is going to host an industrial zone built by Elsewedy, a giant Egyptian cable firm. Elsewedy requested MoTI&#8217;s approval of two million square metres of land for the construction of the industrial zone three months ago. The company began its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}