East african steel industry

africon’s editorial publication in the ITA journal

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last October africon published its first editorial addressing the future of the Steel industry in East Africa at the 3rd journal edition of the International Tube Association. The article started by highlighting how East Africa distinguishes itself by economical growth and political stability in the region and being the least dependent on primary commodities such as gold or oil in comparison with other african regions. The East African region was projected to capture the highest regional economic growth over the past year in Africa. The article then went in depth to analyse those macro-economic factors and focused on the drivers of steel industry that promote economic growth in Africa and especially in East Africa.

Now you can read the full version of the editorial here or download it as a white paper

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africon GmbH won their first tender with GIZ

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africon GmbH won their first tender with GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) – The official German association for international cooperation. africon was then invited to organize the program of a Tunisian delegation visiting Germany from 24-26th April of this year.

During their time in Germany the Tunisian companies met with German companies of the food & beverage sector to create valuable and fruitful contacts in order to create long lasting partnerships for the purpose of entering African markets with joint forces.

The delegation trip was part of the 4-year GIZ project PEMA (Promotion des exportations créatrice d’emploi dans des nouveaux marchés africains), which aims at supporting export activities to Africa and to further job creation. The Tunisian delegation consisted of 7 food processing companies and visited Germany for 2 days.

The core piece of the delegation’s trip was a B2B Workshop at the Congress Center Düsseldorf on Thursday, 25 April 2019. During this event the German and Tunisian companies received very good insights into the Tunisian as well as Sub Saharan African markets of food & beverage processing through overview presentations given by africon GmbH and Deloitte Tunisia (the local Tunisian partner of GIZ). 

After these introductory presentations the participants exchanged ideas & interests in individual discussions while sharing coffee and lunch.

All participants (Tunisian & German) said that the B2B event, including the presentations, was very satisfying and useful.

During their first day, on 24. April 2019 the Tunisian delegates received the opportunity to visit one of the largest German non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers “Sinalco” (Deutsche Sinalco GmbH Markengetränke & Co. KG).

During this site visit a presentation about the history of Sinalco was given and Sinalco presented their production facilities to the delegation. This gave the Tunisian company representatives the opportunity to experience one of the largest German beverage manufacturers “in action”.

GIZ Delegation

In case you missed the B2B event but are interested in learning more about the Tunisian companies, please don’t hesitate to contact us or Mr. Fabian Schuster.

africon presence at agrofood event in Lagos, Nigeria

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The agrofood event took place alongside the plastprintpack event from the 26th to 28th of March, 2019, featuring over 120 exhibitors from 24 countries. africon was part of the 2,094 visitors in attendance, and was well represented by our Nigerian team.

Asides the display of new technologies and products by exhibitors, the event included a very insightful 3-day conference, where industry experts shared their knowledge and foresight about different topics relating to the food and beverage processing, plastics and packaging business in Nigeria.

According to africon representatives, it was such an interesting and insightful event, and they had great  interactions with many exhibitors and visitors .