A new high-tech textile industrial unit will soon be created in Casablanca.
The investment, carried by the company OMEGA Textile Maroc, consists in the manufacture, for the local market and the export, of knitted items, socks and lingerie by the use of new techniques and advanced machines – 4.0 technology, announces the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy.
Worth a total investment of 80 million dirhams, this project will generate 200 direct jobs and 450 other indirect jobs over time, as well as an estimated turnover of nearly 75 million dirhams.
For the concretization of this investment, an agreement was signed, Thursday July 16, by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, and Mrs. SONG Linghui, General Manager of the company OMEGA Textile Maroc.
On the occasion, Elalamy stressed the importance of this new investment attesting to the confidence that international investors have in Morocco as a production and export platform and in the capacity of the national textile industry to position itself in this post-Covid period19. He added that this project will help to energize the Moroccan knitwear sector and develop the added value of by-products around the two knit ecosystems and the distribution of brands nationally and internationally, especially in Africa.
As a reminder, OMEGA Textile Maroc is a Moroccan company with 100% Chinese capital, specialized in the manufacture of socks and lingerie items (tights, stockings, knee-highs, t-shirts, undershirts and other similar items). The company is located in the industrial area of Settat and currently employs 170 people. Its production is totally oriented towards the local market.
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