The Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) in collaboration with the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) sponsored an exhibition at Lagos, Nigeria.
Group exhibited over 100 Taiwan Machinery Catalogues of machines available in Taiwan to the Nigerian market to solicit more Nigerians to invest in the Taiwan machinery.
The exhibition took place for the second time in Nigeria had machine specialists from Tami available at the exhibition held at the Henry Fajemirokun Hall, Commerce House Victoria Island, Lagos.
John Chen, Director of Business Division, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, stated the Association aims at offering a lot of information on how they could be handled properly.
He expressed satisfaction as over 80 people participated in the Taiwan Machinery exhibition, and have shown more interest in textile machinery, spare parts and food processing machinery.
Chen explained that Taiwan produced very good machines and expressed his hope that the Association would one day cooperate with Nigerian people and teach them to prepare their industry labour enabling them to make good use of the machinery imported from Taiwan.
Chen viewed Nigerians were more business oriented and the Association aimed to visit Nigeria and find partnership with the people who would then produce some electrical products.
Taiwan machinery were unique in quality, the prices were very reasonable compared to those of European countries and above all they also intend to offer training in Taiwan to those who patronize them.
Among the challenges in doing business in Nigeria was that of infrastructure, which were not adequate and procedures of investing in any company in Nigeria was more complicated than in Taiwan, he added.
He suggested that if the procedures were made easier, foreigners would be encouraged to do more business.
Taiwan and Nigeria have very good relationship and apart from bringing the Taiwan machinery to Nigeria, Taiwan has been importing petroleum and other chemical products from Nigeria, informed Chen.
Chen viewed that despite the abundant resources in Nigeria, lot of young people were jobless but the country can have a very good education system and make a lot of money from it.
?f the country can educate the next generation, the nation would be one of the best countries in the world,?stated Chen.
