Zoomlion creates 11,200 new jobs

Zoomlion one of Ghana’s top waste management firms boasts of over 75, 000 staff in running its operations.

The Executive Chairman of Zoomlion and the Jospong Group of Companies, Mr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, revealed this during the handing over trucks and tricycles by President John Dramani Mahama at the Trade Fair Center Febuary 5, 2016.

He added that, the additional machinery handed over to his firm will enable them not only effectively carry out their operations, but employ about 11, 200 more people in efforts to curb the high rate of unemployment in the country

The company which has been in existence since 2006 also listed among other achievements, the establishment of a waste management school under The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST.

President John Mahama, guest speaker at the ceremony held by waste management company Zoomlion, to present 400 waste trucks and 5,000 motorised tricycles to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) outlined measures that had been taken by the government to ensure proper waste disposal and management particularly the creation of waste transfer stations and recycling plants

He reiterated that the discharge of raw waste into the sea at Korle Gonno in Accra would stop and 'Lavender Hill' closed down by the end of August this year, after the completion of the Mudor Faecal Treatment Plant adjacent the dump site.

An exhibition was mounted by some subsidiaries of the Zoomliom Group of Companies, such as the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), Zoompak, Yeeco Plastics, the Universal Plastic Products and Recycling Ltd (UPPR) and KNUST Africa Institute for Sanitation and Waste Management (K-AISWAM).