The affected area was the building which housed the company’s newest factory specially designed to produce modern rugs to complement the wall- to- wall carpet factory
Newly acquired machines worth over a billion naira belonging to an indigenous carpet manufacturing factory, Jackson Devos operating under the Calabar Free Trade Zone in Calabar were razed at the weekend during an inferno. within the Jackson Devos premises.Efforts to reach any of the directors for comment were unsuccessful.
He listed the machines affected to include Heavy-woven machine, Cutpile producing machine, wall to wall overedging machine, wall to wall carpet shearing machine, mats and centre rug overedging machine as well as raw different types of materials. She said by the time the firefighters arrived, they were overpowered by the fierce inferno and had to call for backups as the water from the first tank was exhausted.
Jackson Devos producers of the famed crown carpet have been one of the reliable textiles industries in Nigeria, employing hundreds of staff.
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