All roads lead to Jinja, where Mr Yoweri Museveni President of Uganda will preside at the launch of East Africa's largest ore to steel plant. The plant, which will process steel from iron ore mined from Muko in Kabale district, is expected to employ 300 workers.

According to the firm's human resource and legal manager Mr Hussein Hilal, the new factory can process 60,000 tonnes of iron ore into steel, every month. He said that "We are looking at the export market although we think some of it will make it into the market since this steel is of a special quality, rather than from scrap metal."

Mr Hilal explains that the factory will see Steel Rolling Mills workforce increase from 600 workers to an additional 400, with 200 already recruited to work on the new plant. He added that "This factory is already having a huge multiplier effect, as it has created jobs for the miners, transporters taking the ore from Muko mine and many others, even before it gets to our plant in Jinja."

Alam Group has been building the USD 50 million plant for the last eight months, since the foundation was commissioned by President Mr Yoweri Museveni in February 2012.

Source - The Observer

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