The Chinese group C&H Garment Company will build a clothing manufacturing plant in Senegal with an investment of US$25 million. A memorandum of understanding was signed on 5^th July between the Agency for the Promotion of Investments and Major Works (APIX) and the managers of C&H Garment Company.

The project, part of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE), will be located in the Diamniadio industrial park. It should generate 1,000 jobs from June 2016, before progressively increasing to 5,000 jobs.

The plant’s production is intended for export. On the Senegalese side, the authorities highlighted the many opportunities available on the integrated market of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), the availability of labour and the strategic proximity of Senegal with importing countries, specifically the United States and the member countries of the European Union.

The project, which will contribute to the creation of a subcontracting framework with the local private sector, will allow for an important transfer of technologies beneficial to the development of the textile industry in Senegal.

Mrs Helen Hai (pictured), co-founder of C&H Garment, who is also creating another production unit in Rwanda, indicated that the clothing manufacturing plant will be the first of a series of projects in Senegal in the industrial sector.