Tag: manufacturing

Uganda manufacturers urge parliament to ease digital number plate delays

Business Ibrahim Ojuku -
Uganda’s manufacturers’ association has urged parliament to allow more local companies to produce vehicle number plates, saying delays under...

Value Addition, Industrialisation Key to Uganda’s $500 Billion Economy Drive

Business Moses Kabasibante -
Uganda is seeking to expand manufacturing and value addition as part of its strategy to transform the economy into...

Lugoloobi urges Uganda’s hardware dealers to shift from trading to manufacturing

Business Moses Kabasibante -
Minister of State for Planning Amos Lugoloobi has challenged Uganda’s construction and hardware industry to move beyond import-dependent trading...

Uganda courts Korean investment with $500 billion economic target

Deplomacy Darmasco Kaggwa -
Uganda has pitched itself as a low-cost manufacturing base for Africa at a trade and investment meeting in...

Museveni Opens $125 Million Roofings Steel Plant in Major Industrialisation Push

Business Sarah Kamanyire -
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has inaugurated Roofings Group’s new $125 million Ultra-Modern Cold Rolling Mill Complex in Namanve, describing...

Musasizi Presses UDB on Affordable Credit to Drive Jobs and Industrial Growth

Banking & Finance Sarah Okello -
Finance Minister Henry Musasizi has challenged Uganda Development Bank (UDB) to make affordable, long-term credit a central tool...

Uganda Bets on Industrial Expansion to Build a $500 Billion Economy

Business Moses Kabasibante -
Uganda is stepping up efforts to turn its expanding economy into a more industrialised production base, with the government...