Fair Introdution
West Africa during the past few years has become a focal point of interest as a market of the future with high potential. West Africa, in 2013, reached a gdp-growth of 5%. Ghana’s growth, however, continuously used to exceed 7%, the major reasons being political stability and the exploration of oil fields which have been started in 2010.
The West African countries joined forces in 1975 when founding ECOWAS-The Economic Community of West African States as a regional group of fifteen West African countries with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos. Its mission is to promote economic integration across the region. And Accra as the capital of Ghana is the natural gate towards the West African market.
Considered one of the pillars of the African Economic Community, the organization was founded in order to achieve „collective self-sufficiency“ for its member states by creating a single large trading bloc through an economic and trading union.
The ECOWAS-States (Economic Community of West African States)
Product Groups
Plastics: blow molding / cast film production line; condensation; thermoforming; mold manufacturers; extrusion machinery; injection molding machine; blow molding machine; label printing / sprinkler; measurement, testing and analysis instruments; color masterbatch; petrochemical and polymer; plastic and rubber processing; recovery machinery; plasticizers, stabilizers and other chemicals, etc.
Rubber: rubber machinery and equipment: complete sets of equipment, stand-alone and technology for the manufacture and testing of rubber products; rubber raw materials: natural rubber, synthetic rubber, skeleton materials, thermoplastic elastomers, recycled rubber and rubber powder, mixed rubber, etc.; rubber auxiliaries: all kinds of rubber auxiliaries, carbon black, fillers, etc.; non-tire rubber products: tires, power tires, hoses, belts, automotive rubber products, mining engineering rubber products, etc.
Thermoplastic elastomers: polyolefin elastomers, styrene elastomers, polyester thermoplastic elastomers, polyamide thermoplastic elastomers, halogen-containing thermoplastics, elastomers, ionic thermoplastic elastomers, ethylene copolymer thermoplastic elastomers, polybutadiene thermoplastic elastomers, trans polyisoprene thermoplastic elastomers, melt processing thermoplastic elastomers, thermoplastic vulcanizates.