A local company and the Korean textile firm, Hansae, will build on a total area of 70,000 m2 a new facility for a textile factory, which represents the extension of the Asian firm's investments in Nicaragua, said the president of Zona Franca SA Niquinohomo, Mario Zelaya.

The 28 hectare plot on which the future facilities will stand is in the town of Niquinohomo, 45km south of Managua. Zelaya revealed to Elnuevodiario.com.ni that his company will provide capital of $16 million for infrastructure, while Hansae, the owner company, will spend $12 million on the equipping the factory: purchasing machinery, transformers, electrical, sheet industrial and textile manufacturing equipment. In total, the investment is about $28 million and it is expected that 7,000 people will be employed, being recruited from the Niquinohomo area and surrounding towns.

The executive director of the Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Apparel Industry, Anitec, Dean Garcia, welcomed the new investment and recalled that Hansae is one of the oldest companies in the country. He said that before 2008, ie prior to the external economic crisis, it was one of the largest Korean consortia that gave employment to some 8,000 Nicaraguans.

Hansae already has another industrial park in Nandasmo in an area of 11 thousand square meters. This currently generates 1,000 jobs.

Source: elnuevodiario.com.ni

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