Namibia Ceramics, a manufacturing construction plant site located in Tsumeb, is the brainchild of Heikky Katti, a local man who came up with the business idea in 2017.
The business, however, was supposed to have already kicked off six years ago with its construction and produce ceramic products such as floor and wall tiles at one of the first-ever local production sites.
But it has not met that target as of today.
The vision of building the first-ever ceramic manufacturing construction plant site is one of Katti's dreams.
As the founder, he was proud to have won the Development Bank of Namibia award in 2018 for the best business idea.
The award managed to boost his capital and take a step further to make sure that all logistics of setting up the plant were set.
Capital being one of the challenges they were faced with to eventually break ground and be able to be a fully-fledged business, Katti is pleading to the public to come on board and become investors in the project.
"We are approaching the public now to invest in the project as we are selling shares in the company. And also, if anyone will be able to be an investor, we would really welcome that. I mean, everything you use in the business requires money. Even the smallest of things, calling for quotations, requires capital. That is why we are now really moving around and looking for capital."
A co-founder of the business, Petrus Hamutenya, highlighted that the plant has huge potential to contribute to the economy.
They plan on exporting the tiles to SADC markets and local markets that have shown interest in buying their product.
"It is one of the first-ever ceramic manufacturing plants. We are looking at creating employment for our local people and also would like to make an impact on our economy. Whereby our target market we are also looking at export purposes like in SADC. We have already received a letter of intent from people who are interested in buying our products."
Hamutenya and the business partners hope this business initiative empowers others, and by the time the place is fully operational, they can create direct jobs for over 250 people and over 1000 downstream jobs.