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Ghana's Crusading Engineer speaks out: "self-imposed poverty" is how Robert Woode describes the state of modern Ghana. Training and equipping technicians to develop engineering products locally is his recipe for success. The planned new National Machine Tool Centre will be a good start, as Kofi Asante discovered.

Publication: African Review of Business and Technology
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ghana's Crusading Engineer speaks out: "self-imposed poverty" is how Robert Woode describes the state of modern Ghana. Training and equipping technicians to develop engineering products locally is his recipe for success. The planned new National Machine Tool Centre will be a good start, as Kofi Asante discovered.(Interview)(Interview)

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THE MD OF Fateio Ltd, Mr Robert Woode, spoke with Kofi Asante recently at his workshop in Accra. He said his popular description as 'Ghana's Crusading Engineer' comes from his advocacy of the need to build local machine-building capacity, an essential step towards industrialisation.

He pointed out that an imported centrifuge costs about US$30,000, the equivalent of two tons of cocoa. An imported car costs around US$20.000--that's 13.3 tons produced by ten cocoa farmers over four years--yet a car can be easily produced if the right machines are available.

"This situation worries me," he said. "Building a car is nothing if we acquire machine-building capacity, establish a Machine Tool Centre (MTC) equipped with advanced tools such as CNC, CAD and CAM facilities. A machine tool begets a machine tool."

Amongst many others Mr Woode has pioneered the local design and manufacture...

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