The 42-year-old firm whose products are sold across the globe has acquired a 100-acre agricultural land and obtained approvals to change land use into a light industry facility.
The privately owned firm with 400 workers intends to construct its new facility at Kahaini area of Murang’a County to be renamed Kandara Business Park.
It will house the its first phase of four go-downs, an office block and a community centre.
Nairobi-based industry, Brush Manufacturers, plans to relocate to Murang’a in the next two years, citing lack of expansion space in Nairobi.
The 42-year-old firm whose products are sold across the globe has acquired a 100-acre agricultural land and obtained approvals to change land use into a light industry facility.
The privately owned firm with 400 workers intends to construct its new facility at Kahaini area of Murang’a County to be renamed Kandara Business Park. It will house the its first phase of four go-downs, an office block and a community centre.
The firm based in Industrial Area manufactures brooms, brushes, mops, drinking straws, carton strapping band, twisted ply ropes, ball pens, thermal rolls, plastic products, wooden toothpicks and stationery products.
“The company’s expansion has seen it grow production capacity hence the need to relocate to a bigger facility at the proposed location. It plans to relocate the facility to the proposed Kandara Business Park on the Thika-Kangari Road,” said an environmental impact assessment study sent to the National Environmental Management Authority(Nema) seeking a nod to build the new factory premises.
The project’s environmental management consultant said it would revolutionalise the sleepy Kandara area while boosting Murang’a county status as an investor-friendly location.
“It will generate employment, new markets for various goods and services, increase business opportunities for local traders, create a new market for construction materials as well as generate revenue for the national and county governments while contributing to local infrastructural development,” he said.
A community centre will also be built for locals to learn sewing and knitting, among other social development programmes.
Land for industrial development is shrinking in Nairobi’s industrial zone, with many investors forced to seek alternative parcels outside Nairobi in Kiambu, Murang’a, Machakos and Kajiado counties.
Nema has invited views from the public on the proposed project and will make a decision after 30 days on whether to allow or reject the project.
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