Cameroon: Innotech Lab technology center announces that it has designed and assembled a vehicle
(Ecofin Agency) - In 2020, Cameroonian engineers from the diaspora set up the Innotech Lab project, with the ambitions of prototyping for innovation, incubation and training.
During a press briefing held on September 28 in Yaoundé, the top management of the Cameroonian technology center Innotech Lab, based in Mvan (in the outskirts of Yaoundé), announced that it had designed and assembled a vehicle. "A vehicle entirely designed and assembled in Cameroon will be presented on the occasion of the first Technological Innovation Day, on October 6th. On this occasion, Innotech Lab will inaugurate its first DTA-001 vehicle,” said Mbang Sama, Head of Innotech Lab.
Whoever is otherwise responsible for the digitization and simulation of the manufacturing load cases in the Mercedes-Benz TecFactory in Germany nevertheless kept the project secret and did not open the doors of his unit press mounting. The engineer just indicated that one of the technical partners of the project is the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation, before adding that he has the support of the Ministry in charge of Industry and SMEs.
Innotech Lab was inaugurated on October 14, 2020 in Yaoundé by the Minister of SMEs, Achille Bassilekin III. The structure's main areas of activity are: prototyping for innovation, incubation and training. Said center is the project of an organization called Digital Transformation Alliance (DTA), created by Cameroonian engineers from the diaspora, notably based in France and Germany.
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The announcement of Innotech Lab is not the first of its kind, recalls Investir au Cameroun. Indeed, the Mission for the Development and Management of Industrial Zones in Cameroon (Magzi) made available, in 2016, to the Indo-Chinese consortium Cameroon Automobile Industry Company (CAIS) land with an area of 15 hectares, for the implementation of its project to build a vehicle assembly unit in Douala.
At an estimated cost of 92 billion FCFA, the project, which also included the construction of a 2th assembly unit in the grip of the Kribi industrial-port complex, was to create more 4,000 jobs, according to official estimates. But after the presentation to the public of the prototypes assembled in China and not in Cameroon, we have not heard of the project since then.
Last but not least, the Lebanese company Mikano International Ltd, already present in Abuja, Nigeria, announced in July 2019 the launch of a car assembly plant in Cameroon. The first cars were expected in 2020, according to Cameroonian authorities. But nothing since.
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