Aluya is the Managing Director of Technoglass Industries Limited, Lagos.
While conducting architects and journalists round the company’s modern facility at Amuwo Odofin Industrial Estate, Lagos worth over N400 million, said the customs have not been able to may the borders efficiently to block entry of adulterated and poor quality products into Nigeria.
“For instance, the system that we use in tampering and laminating – heat soak is not a safety glass but fraudulent people import it as safety glass and when it breaks, it breaks like normal glass and cause injury. Because the consumers’ don’t know, and since there is no standard code on glass specifications, all manner of glasses are brought into the country and Nigerians just buy ignorantly,” he revealed.
“Infrastructural decay is a big problem. Our roads are bad. If it will cost me say N10,000 to move my products from Lagos to Port Harcourt, the man in Port Harcourt will prefer to import a container from Europe and pay the same freight rate since a container is bigger and he will get more goods” he noted.
Facilities in its line include: CNC engraving machine, insulating glazing line and other glass processing machines.
