Homs-Sana
The demands of the owners of the establishments in the industrial city of Hasya, during their meeting with the governor of Homs, Engineer Namir Makhlouf, focused on increasing the allocations of their factories of fuel and electricity and giving longer periods of time to investors, to complete the construction and equipping of their industrial facilities, and to expedite the implementation of the labor housing project in the city.
The governor noted the quality of production in the industrial city of Hasya, and the importance of partnership between the industrial sectors in the interest of the country, pointing out that the governorate, in cooperation with economic and service agencies, supports the work of every industrial facility, whether public, private or joint, and facilitates procedures to help it and overcome the difficulties encountered. Its work is based on providing job opportunities and encouraging the return of industrialists and investors, and working on developing a plan to allocate a percentage of fuel for industrial facilities, especially increasing the quantities of industrial fuel, facilitating the granting of licenses to facilities that stopped working during the war period, encouraging investment in the industrial city and developing small and large industries.
Bassam Al-Mansour, director of the industrial city in Hassia, said in a press statement that the occupancy rate in the city amounted to 65 percent, and that it had 950 licensed facilities, while revenues exceeded three and a half billion pounds, indicating that the city did not stop working despite all the circumstances that the country was exposed to as a result of the terrorist war. Against it, the Corona virus crisis and unjust economic sanctions, but continued its production with the entry of 11 new industrial facilities to it this year with a clear improvement in food, textile, chemical and engineering production.
The governor's tour included a number of factories in the city of Hasya, where he was briefed on their working mechanism, the quality of specifications included in their industry, the difficulties encountered in the work of factories and their production capacity, and the extent to which they meet the needs of the local market and the mechanism of its disposal.
In turn, the head of the Homs Chamber of Industry, Labib Brothers, considered the alternative energy project with photovoltaic panels in Hasiya that it is the fruit of the efforts of a group of industrial partners and the administration of the industrial city, and a culmination of what President Bashar al-Assad called during his recent visit to the project, which bridges the large gap for generating electric power, starting from 3 megabytes all the way to to 100 megabytes within the next three years.
The managing director of the city’s glass factory, Firas Monian, also indicated that the factory, which was established 12 years ago, relies on two melting furnaces with a production capacity of 145 tons per day, as it produces juice bottles and jars of various capacities, which are exported to a number of Arab and foreign countries.
While the director of the Al-Mateen Group for Plastic Industries, Waseem Brothers, indicated that the products of the group's laboratories meet the market needs of plastic threads, bags, tubes, etc., and the surplus is exported abroad.
Hanan Sweid
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