The Moztex clothing factory in the southern Mozambican city of Matola has announced that, since it began working in September 2009, it has exported about 120,000 items of ready-to-wear clothing to South Africa.Moztex operates out of premises that once housed the giant Texlom textile factory, which used to be one of the largest employers in Matola. This part of Matola is now an industrial free zone.The factory is owned by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which says that it has so far invested 2.5 million US dollars in the factory, and plans to raise this figure to 7.5 million.As from next year, according to the AKDN ambassador in Mozambique, Nazir Ahmad, Moztex will also export clothing to Europe and to the United States.“We are producers with excellence. We are producing garments to international standards exclusively devoted to exports, contributing to domestic revenue in this way”, said Karim Dost Mohamed, director of Moztex, cited by Thursday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Mediafax '.Moztex employs 614 workers, most of them women, and has seven clothing production lines. “Our vision is to reach a total of 1,800 workers and a thousand machines, which will raise our investment to $ 7.5 million, but everything will depend mainly on the success we attain in the market”, said Ahmad.The intensive use of manpower is a major goal that AKDN wants to accomplish through Moztex, as a way of contributing to the reduction of unemployment in Mozambique.Moztex products are not on sale on the domestic market, Karim Mohamad explained, precisely because the factory is in a free zone. “Bercause we’re in a free zone, our production must be for export and not for the domestic market”, he said. “That’s what the law says, and there’s nothing we can do about it. We can sell on the Mozambican market, only if there is a surplus”.
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