Innocent Chukwuma, the Chairman of the Innoson Group has said Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing (IVM) is making plans to set up a manufacturing plant in Owerri, the Imo state capital.
Speaking on Friday during a facility tour of one of the group’s plants in Anambra, Chukwuma said the establishment of the plant in Imo is part of efforts to actualise the company’s mission to become a giant in vehicle production in Africa.
“The Innoson factory expansion will be situated at Naze Owerri in Imo. We have already acquired about 150,000sqm land for this project and construction works are ongoing,” he said.
Cornel Osigwe, the group’s head of corporate communications said governor Chukwuma Soludo’s endorsement of one of the company’s brands showed the durability and capacity of the made-in-Nigeria vehicle.
“Governor Soludo is the first governor to use Innoson vehicles as official vehicle and we are hopeful that such endorsement will increase patronage from other state governments, corporate organisations, and other well-meaning Nigerians.
“Innoson is currently migrating from manual production to becoming a fully automated production plant. The manual production plant has the capacity to produce about 10,000 vehicles annually, but at the completion of the migration, production capacity will increase to about 60,000 annually,” he said
