The manufacturing field continues to strengthen and diversify into new fields that are leading to better careers for our children in innovative fields such as robotics and specialized engineering, which is taking place in our country. This shows that Malta’s economy is diversifying even through the help that the Government offers to this area which employs thousands of Maltese and Gozitan workers. This is leading to manufacturing today being a success story for our country because it is recognizing to invest in innovation and the environmental core driven by the ability and courage of the Maltese and Gozitan workers, who today are at the helm of this foreign direct investment.
In a visit he made to the factory of Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, in the industrial area of Ħal Far, Prime Minister Robert Abela noted the plan of this company, with more than 60 years of history in Mala, which continues to invest €14 million in the next two years to make its operation cleaner. In fact the additional investment in sustainable machinery in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and semiconductors among others, comes after the company is expanding with more than 6,000m 2 of additional space including 4,000m 2 of production space. This after receiving help from Malta Enterprise and INDIS Malta.
Prime Minister Abela visited the area where the additional space is being built and noted how in this place quality careers continue to be created according to the new priorities that the country has. “It means that we can continue to progress and create jobs that give a better quality of life but with environmental changes that also give economic opportunity,” stressed Prime Minister Abela.
In a discussion he had with the workers on the work site, Dr. Abela noted the advancement in the careers of many workers, with one of the workers, Ryan Carabott, a young man of 27 years, today leading a team of ‘ people after he entered Trelleborg with an apprenticeship. Engineer Neal Borg also started with the same company working in engineering and today runs the factory as General Manager. Here it was pointed out about the need to improve the skills for the workers to keep progressing, something that the company does intensively to prepare its employees in the production of products of the future that give an opportunity for these same products from Malta to enter new and innovative international markets.
Currently the company employs almost six hundred people in Far and Marsa and is established as a center of excellence in manufacturing and in the field of research and innovation both in our country and also in the Group of Trelleborg. The group records annual sales of approximately three billion euros each year. Trelleborg also believes that in Malta there is a climate in which the industries it specializes in can continue to grow.
In the visit the Prime Minister Robert Abela was also accompanied by the Minister for Economy, Enterprise and Strategic Projects Silvio Schembri.
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