I recently accepted an invitation to visit Del Monte Kenya’s pineapple canning factory in Thika, to meet and engage the Managing Director, the South African National, Wayne Cook, who has recently assumed leadership of what ranks as the largest commercial farming enterprise in central Kenya.
I take a rather utopian view about factories and manufacturing plants in general. I enjoy watching machines and mortars twisting and turning, and fancy watching factory workers milling around conveyor belts, driving forklifts, and in the case of the Thika pineapple processing plant, making and packing slices and juices.
