New Chinese garment unit in Casablanca to create 650 jobs

21 Jul '20

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A new high-tech 80-million-dirhams garment manufacturing factory in Casablanca will start operations soon under an agreement between the Moroccan government and China’s Omega Textile Maroc. The agreement was signed recently by Morocco’s minister of industry and trade Moulay Hafid Elalamy and Song Linghui, managing director of the Chinese company.

The unit will manufacture hosiery, socks and lingerie by using advanced machines and the output will cater to the domestic market as well as exports, said the ministry in a press release.

The project will generate 200 direct jobs and 450 indirect jobs in the long term, as well as an estimated turnover of nearly 75 million dirhams, a North African media outlet reported citing the press release.

The unit will give a boost to the Moroccan knitwear industry and help develop the added value of by-products around the two knitwear ecosystems and the distribution of brands nationally and internationally, particularly in Africa.

Omega Textile Maroc operates under Moroccan law with cent per cent Chinese capital and specialises in manufacturing socks, lingerie and T-shirts.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)