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ZimTile profitability up 40%

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Profitability at tile manufacturing company ZimTile has increased by between 30 and 40% since the commissioning of a new $2,5 million plant last year, officials said yesterday. ZimTile is a subsidiary of PG Industries. Speaking to journalists during a tour of the plant in Harare, company managing director Washington Kuwana said the new plant had […]

Profitability at tile manufacturing company ZimTile has increased by between 30 and 40% since the commissioning of a new $2,5 million plant last year, officials said yesterday. ZimTile is a subsidiary of PG Industries.

Speaking to journalists during a tour of the plant in Harare, company managing director Washington Kuwana said the new plant had a capacity to produce

40 000 tiles per day, but was currently producing 20 000 tiles.

We are hoping by 2013 the plant will be producing 40 000 tiles daily, Kuwana said.

He said with the new plant in place they had been no operational challenges as the new plant was more advanced.

We are now operating with 20 people compared to 70 people from the old machine, he said.

ZimTile sales and marketing executive Sakhile Kumalo said the plant was not producing at optimum capacity due to a shortage of pallets.

We are being limited by pallets, but we have begun buying them in batches from South Africa. Hopefully by 2013 we will be able to reach 40 000 tiles a day, Kumalo said. She said demand for both bricks and tiles was currently higher than production capacity in the country.

Khumalo said the group exports 5% of the products to Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Malawi.