Kofi Ahovi

  The retooled Komenda Sugar Factory has undertaken two successful test runs as part of preparations towards its commissioning by the end of this year. From those test runs, 12.5 metric tonnes of unrefined brown sugar has been produced. Officials of the factory gave some of the sugar produced from the exercise to some members of the Komenda community and some reporters to taste when they accompanied President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to visit the factory and apprise himself of progress of work. The inspection last Saturday was part of the President’s working visit to the Central Region. He was accompanied by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen; the Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah; the Minister of Local Government, Dan Botwe; as well as the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Hawa Koomson Also, part of the President’s delegation were the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, and the Central Regional Minister, Justina Marigold Assa...

The retooling and repair work at the Komenda Sugar Factory (KSF) are 98 per cent complete. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, who disclosed this to Parliament yesterday, said a production test run would be conducted by the end of next month. The minister was responding to a question on the floor of Parliament put to him by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bole-Bamboi, Yusif Sulemana, on the state of the factory. Kyerematen said other works had either been completed or were at the final stages of completion. He named the works to include the installation of a new pipeline to and from the plant to the molasses tank, and refractories. There is also lagging work in the boiler furnace and chimneys, which is fully completed. Another was the completion of the vacuum and water testing facility at the boiler house, which had started working, with steam pressure testing ongoing for the turbine to generate three megawatts (MW) of electricity, the minister added. Kyerematen name...