Damascus-Sana
The Metal Construction and Mechanical Industries Company is one of the first public industrial companies that was able to shake off the dust of terrorism that affected its infrastructure, machinery and equipment destruction, looting and theft since 2013, so that its cadres subsequently settled for a period of six years in the headquarters of the Match Company in Damascus. Today, less than two years after their return to their headquarters. The main office in Adra in the countryside of Damascus rehabilitated it and implemented its production plan with contracts with a number of public agencies worth billions of pounds.
The general manager of the company, Eng. Muhammad Kamal Al-Idlibi, explained that the company's cadres returned to its main headquarters on 03/19-2019 to complete the rehabilitation of its infrastructure in cooperation with the Military Housing Company at a cost of one and a half billion Syrian pounds, while the technical staff rehabilitated the machines and bridge cranes and extended electricity The combined efforts resulted in rehabilitating the company by 75 percent as it was, all with national expertise and without the need to import any parts that saved billions of pounds on the state treasury.
Al-Idlibi pointed out that the company has signed contracts worth 2 billion pounds with the General Electricity Company, with the aim of providing it with electric towers, in addition to that it is currently implementing external projects, including the manufacture of oil tanks with a capacity of 500 cubic meters, maintenance of cement kilns in the Adra Cement Company and increasing the capacity of its furnaces from 500 to 1000 Tons, in addition to a group of maintenance operations in factories, hospitals and solar energy projects at Damascus University.
Al-Idlibi explained that the value of the company's business amounted to 5 billion pounds last year, and its profits are estimated at 500 million pounds, indicating that the company's entire production is marketed by virtue of it working according to demand and purchasing raw materials of iron worth one billion pounds in order to continue production.
In his turn, Eng. Imad Al-Agha, Director of Production, pointed out that the company's work is focused on manufacturing steam boilers according to international technical specifications, with different capacities ranging from half a ton to ten tons of steam per hour, metal tanks of various sizes, water and fuel tanks, metal hangars, low and medium voltage electric towers, industrial cooling towers and seats And tables in addition to the installation and maintenance of pipelines of all kinds.
Rami Kaddoura, the director of financial affairs of the company, indicated that there is a set of difficulties that the company suffers from, such as a lack of technical, labor and administrative staff and power cuts that increase the cost of production in addition to the age of machines, pointing out at the same time that the company did not stop production, but rather rehabilitated its machines and saved money Great cost of buying it.
Tariq Al-Sayed and Ahmed Suleiman
