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Kantanka Automobile was established in 1994 by Apostle Dr. Ing. Kwadwo Safo and incorporated as Limited Liability Company in 2004 to research into the manufacturing of automotive components and their combination with other parts outsourced from component suppliers to form a complete built unit.
In 1998, the first CBU was manufactured using over 75% of local components, locally manufactured including the engine block. The company projects to produce 70 cars by January next year, after it successfully commissioned a manufacturing plant, and launched its three flagship Kantanka car models – Kantanka Onantefuo (SUV), Kantanka Omama (a pickup truck), and Kantanka K71 (a mini SUV).
Kantanka vehicles are assembled in Ghana from CKD (Complete Knock Down) kits supplied by a Chinese firm, possible Foday through Chongqing Big Science & Technology. Indeed, what varies is how much assembly has to be done on a local level. Judging by Kantanka’s factory tours, showing complete rolling chassis, engines hooked up and all, it appears to be using very complete kits from China.In the auto industry they’re called Complete Knock Down kits (CKDs), or KDs more generally. CKDs are basically how auto manufacturing got its start in India and in Iran. Daimler also notably used CKDs to skirt American import tariffs on their big vans, and even Lincoln bizarrely shipped Town Cars to China as CKDs for local assembly as Hongqis, the brand of car that China’s president rides around in.
Kantanka's car are being created or built at kumasi in the Ashanti Region in a very big Warehouse, that is where production takes place when the products for creating cars are being brought. After creating the cars, they are being assembled to the kantanka show room in Achimota in the Greater Accra Region which is where people or customers come to have a look,exaimine the car they want and then purchase it.
Selling these cars instead as locally-assembled “Made In Ghana” Kantankas not only could give them good press, it would skirt Ghana’s import laws and let them sell at low price. The Kantanka Assembly plant, which is as sophisticated as any automobile plant in the world, would be cruising out between 80 to 200 four-wheel sports utility vehicles and pickups on a monthly basis for a start. The numbers are expected to increase in response to the growth of the market share of the company.
Name: Zaretta Kartey
Index No.: DCS20352
Kantanka Automobile was established in 1994 by Apostle Dr. Ing. Kwadwo Safo and incorporated as Limited Liability Company in 2004 to research into the manufacturing of automotive components and their combination with other parts outsourced from component suppliers to form a complete built unit.
In 1998, the first CBU was manufactured using over 75% of local components, locally manufactured including the engine block. The company projects to produce 70 cars by January next year, after it successfully commissioned a manufacturing plant, and launched its three flagship Kantanka car models – Kantanka Onantefuo (SUV), Kantanka Omama (a pickup truck), and Kantanka K71 (a mini SUV).
Kantanka vehicles are assembled in Ghana from CKD (Complete Knock Down) kits supplied by a Chinese firm, possible Foday through Chongqing Big Science & Technology. Indeed, what varies is how much assembly has to be done on a local level. Judging by Kantanka’s factory tours, showing complete rolling chassis, engines hooked up and all, it appears to be using very complete kits from China.In the auto industry they’re called Complete Knock Down kits (CKDs), or KDs more generally. CKDs are basically how auto manufacturing got its start in India and in Iran. Daimler also notably used CKDs to skirt American import tariffs on their big vans, and even Lincoln bizarrely shipped Town Cars to China as CKDs for local assembly as Hongqis, the brand of car that China’s president rides around in.
Kantanka's car are being created or built at kumasi in the Ashanti Region in a very big Warehouse, that is where production takes place when the products for creating cars are being brought. After creating the cars, they are being assembled to the kantanka show room in Achimota in the Greater Accra Region which is where people or customers come to have a look,exaimine the car they want and then purchase it.
Selling these cars instead as locally-assembled “Made In Ghana” Kantankas not only could give them good press, it would skirt Ghana’s import laws and let them sell at low price. The Kantanka Assembly plant, which is as sophisticated as any automobile plant in the world, would be cruising out between 80 to 200 four-wheel sports utility vehicles and pickups on a monthly basis for a start. The numbers are expected to increase in response to the growth of the market share of the company.
Name: Zaretta Kartey
Index No.: DCS20352
Insightful... Great piece
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