Türkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduced plans Tuesday to open three further boron processing crops in central Eskisehir province.
“This year, we will add three new boron processing plants to Eskisehir which account for an investment value of 501 million liras ($25.8 million),” Erdoğan mentioned at a mass opening ceremony in Eskisehir.
He mentioned the “pilot facility” opened in Eskisehir will start processing 1,200 tons of ore per 12 months within the first stage establishing one other “facility that will increase the annual production to 570,000 tons immediately.”
Erdoğan mentioned the “design, manufacture and assembly of the locomotive and subsystems of the first domestic electric locomotive, E5000, will be completed and then, testing and certification will be launched.”
“Here, we will manufacture 500 locomotives that Türkiye will need in the next 10 years,” he added.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
