Nickel plant to operate in Isabel
TACLOBAN CITY — A nickel smelting and processing plant will soon rise at the Leyte Industrial Estate (LIDE) Corporation at the agro-industrial town of Isabel , Leyte. This was revealed by Engr. Amos Calda, General Manager of LIDE Corporation.
The nickel plant produces pig-iron raw materials, an ingredient needed in the manufacture of stainless steel.
The plant is a joint venture between HUA GUANG Smelting Incorporated of the People’s Republic of China and Century Peak local company of Manila .
Calda further revealed that the establishment of the plant in that area is one of the end–results of Governor Jericho Petilla’s promotional pitch in many nationwide forums where he spoke of LIDE’s capabilities.
Land acquisition has just been done with an area adequate enough to build the plant facilities of the business venture right inside the LIDE compound.
The nickel plant will be able to employ some 250 employees when it starts operation earmarked for September 2010. Construction of the facilities and other structures is scheduled February 2010.
Meanwhile, the local government of Isabel has been generating a lot of savings in their purchase effort strategy to beef up the construction equipment facilities that is much-needed in the various infrastructure projects being undertaken by the town. Lately they purchased a dump truck that costs only P1.3 million.
In another town this kind of dump truck of the same brand was bought with the cost of P2.8 million, a staggering difference of P1.5million. This was revealed by Engr. Saylito Purisima, Isabel’s Municipal Administrator.
In another landmark revelation, school buildings that have been constructed by the local government would cost only P580,000 and in some other time in the past such buildings cost government from P750,000 to P1 million.
This has been a continuing policy of Mayor Jun Medina from the time he assumed office as Municipal Mayor in 2007 that the almost accepted practice of add-ons or overpricing projects for S.O.P’s has continuously been discouraged by the Mayor, Purisima said. (ALVIN Gz. ARPON)
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