As part of its concept to produce locally the basic raw materials, Orange Drugs Limited is set to produce ‘soap noodles’ at its subsidiary –Orange Drugs Limited Onitsha Plant.

The production at Orange Drugs Limited Onitsha Plant which will be commissioned this month, is for the company’s internal consumption and sale to other companies in the same industry, within and outside Nigeria.

Industry watchers say the diversification has given Orange Drugs Limited a competitive edge in terms of cost advantage and consistency in quality of its basic raw material input.

Orange Drugs Limited is one of the three subsidiaries of Orange Group Limited, the other two are Orange Kalbe Limited and Orange West Africa Limited.

Speaking to journalists in Lagos, Henshaw Nwaorgu, plant manager, (soap), Orange Drugs Limited said “the saponification process plant comprises of the tank farm (with tanks to store over 20,000 metric tonnes of PKO/CPO/Tallow); the bleaching plant; the boiler (steam generation); water treatment plant; caustic dissolving unit; the saponification crusher (two units of 25 tonnes each); the spray dryer; and two storage silos.”

According to him, “Orange Drugs Limited Onitsha Plant was fully installed in April 2011 and test runs were conducted in May 2012 with our technical teams from Germany and Italy and other well tested Nigerian professionals.”

He said the plant currently has the capacity to produce five tonnes per hour equivalent to 80 tonnes in two shifts per day (of eight hours per shift). “This is the phase currently being commissioned. Capacity per annum is estimated at 19,200 metric tonnes. The second phase to be commissioned in October 2013, would eventually bring the factory to its full capacity of 15 tonnes of soap with 12 finishing lines”, Nwaorgu said.
He further noted that “apart from the process line, we have fully installed three lines for soap finishing; each has a capacity of 2 tonnes per hour for the production of laundry, multipurpose and toilet soaps respectively”.

Nwaorgu added: “The company has a vibrant workforce with technical knowhow that are constantly evolving new products to meet the demands for our teaming consumers locally and internationally. The factory has a proposed workforce of 1,200 persons, thereby creating job opportunities as well as establishing Orange Group as a major contributor to the creation of jobs in Nigeria.”

Lord Naya: Please moderators move this thread to the front page and help me to display the message and picture in the links that i provided. Thanks. Here is the picture of the giant factory. It is bigger than what is in the picture and it would be commisioned this august. www.naijahottestgist.com/2012/08/16/pics-of-the-orange-drugs-factory-president-goodluck-will-commision/

asha 80: well maybe anambra needs soludo for the 'dubai' dream.

manny4life:

Is that the pics of the "multi billion company"?

It better had been bigger and better that what's in that pic.



The Dubai dreams takes years of financial discipline/investment and less corrupt environment to come through. On that note, not only one person or groups of persons can achieve the Dubai dream, but EVERYONE. Anambra may be at it, but still far from the reality of Dubai dream.

It is this kind of vision that drove the rulers of Dubai to turn a semi desert to attract the best of talents and capital from all over the world, and today Dubai is everybody’s dream destination. A similar strategy was deployed by Taiwan, harnessing its strategic location and endowments. When they started, their initial plans were dismissed as ‘unrealistic’.

Soludo envisions Anambra, with its peculiar small landmass, as one “Free Trade Zone.” Some of his programmes range from the Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu airport, metropolitan urban renewal programmes to turn the ‘ONA axis’ (Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka axis) into commercial and industrial hubs; revolution to turn the more than 40,000 four-storey buildings in Onitsha which are now dead assets into viable, collaterable assets that can be used to secure substantial bank loans for business; the commercial agriculture strategy to work with Malaysians and Israelis to turn Omambala and Orumba zones into agricultural and agro-industrial parks to feed Nigeria, the plan for a brand new modern city, industrial parks, plans for community development, erosion control, education and health, as well as security. It is long and indeed ambitious.

I am particularly excited by Soludo’s brand new city idea by which he proposes to extend the current capital city (the Greater Awka into Awka North) or the Greater Onitsha into Nsugbe/Otuocha axis. The proposed six kilometre boulevard adorned with many shopping malls including the Anambra Shopping World which he believes would be Africa’s largest shopping mall with international brands, world class recreational parks, hotels, cinema, restaurants and the likes, would be a dream come through. The world’s most beautiful Avenue is Champs Elysees in Paris and no one goes to Paris without visiting Champs Elysees, which is only 1.9 kilometres long. The Anambra Boulevard promises to be Africa’s ‘must visit’ location, and will be a signature project in the new city. A well planned new city with modern facilities, together with the new airport, and industrial/commercial and agricultural parks will kick-start a dynamic domestic economy to which most of us would proudly want to relocate.

I am also excited about Soludo’s five million hybrid palm seedlings programme to re-engineer the palm revolution and compete with Malaysia and Indonesia as world’s largest palm producers. I understand that 50 - 100 hybrid palms can lift a poor household out of poverty, and this would mean 50,000 households. Imagine the agro-processing industries that would emerge, the revenue to government, and prosperity to all. Malaysia took its palm seedlings from Anambra in early 1960s and created prosperity with them.

The innovative Community Government is a study in comprehensive grassroots development framework that will involve the people in addressing their peculiar local needs. I can go on and on.

Soludo has insisted that Anambra cannot be developed with Federation Account allocation but by private capital. There must be very few people with Soludo’s national and international networks and personal capacity to mobilize private capital to transform Anambra.

He has done it before. When Soludo dreamt of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) to do what the African Union could not accomplish in over 25 years, many thought it was a joke but he did it and AFC is now Africa’s number one infrastructure bank. He dreamt of consolidating the banking system and most people said it was ‘impossible.’ Soludo set out to put Nigerian banks on the global map, and announced that he wanted Nigerian banks in the top 100 banks in the world within 10 years. Most people thought this was ‘idealistic.’ In three years, he put two Nigerian banks in the top 300 banks and 12 others within the top 1000 banks. What Soludo brings is his ever restless and cerebral capacity to think big and exceptional execution capacity.

To me, ADT is a clear roadmap to prosperity. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who once said that, “Once a mind has been stretched by a new idea, it never returns to its original shape.” Soludo has stretched the minds of Ndi Anambra with a new idea. Now, we cannot wait again. Happy birthday to you, my brother!

Joe Anatune is a brand strategist .

Lord Naya: The picture you saw is the administrative buildings, the main factory is massive. It is located at the Ogbaru industrial layout near Onitsha. The goodnews is that not only will this factory be manufacturing various finished products, it will also be producing the raw materials and semi-finished products that would be bought by various firms within and outside the country. The factory is fitted with the latest technological equipments and manned by professionals. So the main factory which is not on the above picture is big.

asha 80:

well i saw the below somewhere in the net and it captures what soludo has in mind.however you know nigeria politicians and their deceit at times



http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=95889%3Asoludo-and-his-vision-of-anambra-as-prosperous-obi-ndigbo&Itemid=566

manny4life:

Is that the pics of the "multi billion company"?

It better had been bigger and better that what's in that pic.



The Dubai dreams takes years of financial discipline/investment and less corrupt environment to come through. On that note, not only one person or groups of persons can achieve the Dubai dream, but EVERYONE. Anambra may be at it, but still far from the reality of Dubai dream.

ezeagu:

Everyone in the world agrees Dubai is a soulless city built with and on slaves from Asia and East Africa. Don't look to Dubai when there are so many better less gaudy options. All the glitters....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU

asha 80:

danm! ezeagu it seems all that glitters is not gold.

Ileke-IdI:
LMAO @ Orange Drug.

Perfect name, perfect location.

Ileke-IdI:
LMAO @ Orange Drug.

Perfect name, perfect location.

Real-Mccoy:


LMAO your people were not left out on this industrialization by Orange drugs in their Onitsha plant,after all the manager said there is a tank filled with bleaching cream for mama Iyabo

ezeagu:

Everyone in the world agrees Dubai is a soulless city built with and on slaves from Asia and East Africa. Don't look to Dubai when there are so many better less gaudy options. All the glitters....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU

EzeUche:

Behave yourself!

berem: why dont u just move on with the topic instead of igniting a tribal conflict.haters will always be around to condemn or make mockery of anything good.so mechionu and face the topic!

berem: why dont u just move on with the topic instead of igniting a tribal conflict.haters will always be around to condemn or make mockery of anything good.so mechionu and face the topic!

berem: why dont u just move on with the topic instead of igniting a tribal conflict.haters will always be around to condemn or make mockery of anything good.so mechionu and face the topic!

berem: why dont u just move on with the topic instead of igniting a tribal conflict.haters will always be around to condemn or make mockery of anything good.so mechionu and face the topic!