West
African Cotton Company Limited is a company incorporated
in Nigeria and is engaged in cotton ginning, selling of cotton
lint to textile mills, export of cotton lint, gin motes and
textile mill wastes. The company also imports cotton from
other neighboring West African countries for onward sales
to local textile mills.
West
African Cotton Company Limited, has its ginnery (Continental
Eagle 3x141 Sawains) in Funtua, Kastina State in the heart
of cotton growing area of Nigeria and has a capacity to gin
over 50,000 metric tons of seed cotton per season. The company
is also having cotton Out Grower Scheme and Farmer Assistance
Scheme through which quality inputs are distributed to loyal
farmers on credit for over 12,000 hectares. The purpose of
the scheme is to enhance the yield and quality of the cotton
lint and to ensure that the cotton reaches the ginnery without
contamination. The company has been exporting substantial
quantities of cotton from Nigeria.
The subsidiary
of West African Cotton Company has another Roller Ginning
factory in Gombe, a state capital in North Eastern Nigeria.
The plant with 36 Double Roller Gins and a High Density Bale
press has a Capacity to gin about 25000mt of seed cotton.
West
African Cotton Company Limited
No 14, Chivita Avenue, Ajao Estate,
Apakun Oshodi, Lagos Nigeria.
Tel. 234 1 452 0965 / 452 0877 / 452 0987 / 452 0592
Fax. 234 1 452 0980 |