Last Monday witnessed Tana Communication Plc and Samsung Electronics East Africa inaugurating Samsung’s first printer assembly plant in Africa.
During the inaugural ceremony Tana’s CEO, Sium Adugna, said the in addition to creating job opportunities plant will facilitate Ethiopia’s efforts in transfer knowledge and technology.
Sium further noted the establishment of the plant will minimize the production of printers which in turn will make Samsung printers competitive in Ethiopia.
Through his representative Robert Nigeru, Iso Samsung Vice President, said the opening of the plant is a sign for Samsung’s commitment to build Africa’s information and communication technologies capacity.
Robert further noted, his company will bring printer assembly engineers from Korea in order to equip local talent with necessary skills for running the assembly.
The products of the assembly are the first printer models of ML-2160, SCX- 3405W, ML5015ND and SL-M3820D which are Mono and Multi function printers.
Currently the plant has the capacity of assembling 70 printers per day.
Source: Herald
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