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of about 3,200 tons of wMoh about 1,700 tons will consist of
domestic fans$ about 3?200 tons will "be taken up by electrical spare boating equipments such as wa-ter boilerss cooking apparatus, electrical ovens and stoves, etc
The following specialised factories ar'e proposed in the sub-region
(l)
(2)
One plant manufacturing air-conditionors and refrigerators
with an..annual capacity of 8,000 10,000 units (1,000
-1,500 tons) in Ivory Coast, .
One plant with an annual capacity of 10,000 - 15,000 pieces (1,000 - 1,200 tons) of domestic trashing machines,
located in Ghana^
(3) One plant producing" different kinds of electro-mechanical
■ domestic appliances with a capacity of 1,000 to 1,500 tons in Nigeria^
(4) Ten establishments manufacturing fans, each with a capacity of about 10,000 units (100 tons), located in Dahomey,
Togo, Mali, Upper Volta, Uigors Senegal, Ivory Coast Ghana, Liberia and Guinea
(5) For electric space heaters, boilers,, oloctric stoves, etc,,
one factory with an annual capacity of about 25,000 heaters (1,500 - 2s000 tons)9 located in Nigeria.
51, Group 729 is the largest in the division of electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances with a total demand of about 72,000 to 73,000 tons in 198O. The major products are batteries and accumulators, for which the market will exceed 50,000 tons per annum. Total consumption of electric accumulators (lead acid batteries) of all kinds will
amount to between■ 6"00,000 and 700,000 units or about 10,000 tons.. . It is suggested that present capacity in accumulators in Ghana,
Senegal and Nigeria (of about 130,000 units) could be expanded and- ■ new factories and assemblies erected, to achieve a total domestic
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polystyrene should be installed to cover the whole sub-regional demand.
The demand for primary torchlight batteries in the sub-region will amount to about 35s000 ~ 40?000 tons or about 400 to 450 million units in 198O. The main consumer will be Ghana with about 110 - 120 million units, Nigeria with 100 - 110 million , Ivory Coast 48 - 50 million , Liberia 40 - 45 million and Senegal 25 - 27 million • The minimum economic capacity of a semi-automated plant is 12 to 16 million units and new factories with an, annual capacity of 20 or more million units should be located in the above mentioned couhtriesa to cover at least 50 per cent of the total demand*
The consumption of automotive electrical equipment, i.e.
starting and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines, lighting equipment for vehicles? etc.,, will be about 335OO to 4?000 tons per annum.. For internal combustion engines, which are expected to be produced in.the sub-region, the demand of starter motors will amount to between 30s000 and 40,000 units and for tractors another 30 to 35 thousand units.
The demand for dynamos for internal combustion engines will exceed 6O5OOO units.
The principal consumers will be the countries producing internal combustion enginess tractors, and automobiles but a more detailed study of the market and co-ordination.is required before recommendations can be made on location^ capacity and types,
52. The third division of .engineering goods consists of transport equipment. The demand for railway, rolling stock (731) will amount to between 65 and 70 thousand tons by I98O, and about half of this will consist of freight cars. It would be economical to meet this demand by expanding facilities for production in present railway repairing t
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shops for example: in Mauritania', Dahomey and Senegal and by constructing two new factories, each with a capacity of- 1,000 cars per annum-of
15 tons average weight. These factories-should bo located in Nigeria and -Liberia, They could be supplied with plates and sections either imported or from the proposed steel works and with wheels and axles from a-factory of .8,000 - 10,, 000 tons annual capacity which would also supply replacements,; The factory would be attached to the steel
works in Liberia. ■
53. Group 733 with an annual consumption by I98O of about 40 to 45 thousand, tons- consists mainly of bicycles - about 40 per cent, and trailers --about 45 - 50 per cent.
■ The tonnage for bicycles is equivalent to an annual demand of from 1 to ife million units and since it is economical to produce on a scale of from .15 to 20 thousand units per annum, a number of factories can be established and in fact one could be established if necessary
in each country*
With, .regard to trailers., the whole quantity, of trailers for agricultural use could be produced in the sub-region and five factories are proposed, each producing some 1.5? 000 - 20,000 units per. annum and located in Nigeria, Ivory. Coast,,. Ghana, Upper Volta ■
and Senegal. . ■ ■
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