Aleppo-Sana
Participants in the exhibition "Producers 2020" completed their preparations to participate in the exhibition organized by the Arab Group for Exhibitions and Conferences under the title "The Product is a Real Hero" on the second of next November in the Tekkiye Sulaymaniyah in Damascus.
Participants in the exhibition numbered 77 products from Aleppo from various industries whose factories and production workshops were damaged by terrorism, and their owners were able to rehabilitate and operate them, which reflects the ability of the industrialists to produce despite all circumstances and to restore Aleppo to its pulse and health as the capital of the Syrian industry.
The participants' products include food industries, furniture, clothing, traditional, engineering and plastic handicrafts, according to what Joseph Funun, the exhibition coordinator, explained in a statement to SANA's correspondent in Aleppo, pointing out the importance of the exhibition, which constitutes a great opportunity for the participants to display their products at competitive prices and high quality, as well as for merchants to see the national Aleppo product and its role in the current stage. To support the national economy and stand up to external challenges and the blockade imposed on Syria.
The Sana camera toured a number of the exhibition participants' workshops devoted to the manufacture of home furniture, furnishings, ready-made clothes and plastic tools. George Batikha, the owner of a carpentry workshop for the manufacture of home furniture and furniture, explained that he lost his workshop in which he was working in Al-Midan neighborhood due to terrorism and stopped production to work intermittently and individually and was able to After establishing his workshop again and securing the raw materials for it from wood and thus reproducing doors, windows and types of home furnishings, including furniture, bedrooms, dining rooms and kitchens, pointing out the importance of visiting the exhibition and seeing its products, which are mastered by Aleppo craftsmen.
In the workshop for the production of car brushes between Charbel Chamoun, he was able with his partners to obtain financial support that enabled him to develop the work in his workshop by increasing the number of sewing machines and production requirements and expanding the place and thus doubling the production quantity of car brushes and employing a new workforce considering that the exhibition constitutes a great opportunity to prove the quality National product and its competitive prices.
Eli Rahji, the owner of a ready-to-wear workshop, said that he was able to rehabilitate and restore his facilities that were damaged by terrorism, provide them with production machinery, and start reproducing ready-to-wear clothes again to meet the needs of the local market and contribute to supporting the national economy, indicating that he prepared a variety of his products from clothes to participate in Exhibition with high quality, hoping for a strong return to the production market.
Mazhar Khoury, the owner of a jeans production facility, indicated that he was able to secure the raw materials for the manufacture of jeans and linen clothes from fabrics and their requirements, and achieved a quantum leap in his work, developed work machines and increased the number of his workers, and thus was able to increase his production, which varied with its quality and prices acceptable to shoppers.
Khoury called for increasing the hours of electrical supply to industrial areas, as the cost of the product increases in the event of relying on the amperes system for electrical feeding and operating machinery, while Maher Khoury, the partner in the facility, pointed to the need to provide facilities from government agencies to help discharge the product to foreign markets, indicating that the facility has been provided with a device. It was invented to eliminate gas and electricity to complete the production and ironing of clothes.
Milad Simo, the owner of a plastic industries facility, talked about the maintenance and rehabilitation work that he was able to implement in his facilities as a result of the damage it suffered as a result of terrorism through government support and the grant he received and thus buying new machines for production and re-starting work and providing plastic products to the local market, explaining that the exhibition is a good opportunity to see Others on the domestic product.
George Edelby, the owner of a cotton clothing workshop, said that he had previously stopped work due to the terrorist attacks that caused damage to his establishment, and today he was able to return to work and produce distinguished by its quality and competitive prices.
Qusay Razzouk