The Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, Abdelkader Amara, inaugurated on Friday in Tit Mellil in the Casablanca region a new heavy metal construction factory dedicated to major projects. This factory of the DLM group (Delattre Levivier Maroc), which covers 100,000 m² including 36,485 m² built, is a large-scale project that creates more than four hundred jobs. It is also a project of metallurgical and mechanical industries which are the foundation of any industry and which are important insofar as they allow Morocco to have a very competitive industrial base, stressed Amara on this occasion. The realisation of this project is a successful example of industrial co-localisation between Moroccan and French business communities and public authorities with a redeployment to certain sub-Saharan African countries in the coming years, he added. This factory has a production capacity two and a half times greater than the old one located in the Aïn Sebaa industrial zone, which should make it possible to satisfy the growing demands of customers for heavy equipment goods for major projects in several segments of activity, namely energy, oil, gas, mining and chemistry, infrastructure, cement plants, and Offshore, declared Eric Cecconello, administrator and general manager of DLM, to MAP. This project will allow the group to position itself as a reference supplier in heavy boilermaking and to improve its competitiveness on the local market with a strong export orientation towards the continent's markets, notably towards Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Equatorial Guinea, which constitute enormous potential for development in the medium and long term, he added. The Tit Mellil factory represents 450 direct jobs, bringing the total workforce to 1,400 people, and required an investment of 195 million dirhams.