
TWF 3rd Annual Assembly and International Conference holds in April in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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THE 3rd TWF Annual Assembly and International Conference holds from 14 -16, April,2025 at Haile Grand Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and hosted by TWF in collaboration with Ethiopia Ministry of Labor and Skill, FDRE TVET Institute and Ethiopia Welding Society in the ancient city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Theme: Empowering Africa: Strengthening Welding Capacity for Regional Integration and Global Competitiveness”
The Welding Federation (www.weldfa.org) is a Pan African body developing systems and solutions to aid the domiciliation and domestication of deeper capacity in welding and materials joining technologies in Africa’s member states. TWF Assemblies is now recognized as Africa’s table of solutions for growing capacity and sustaining productivity in Africa’s materials manufacturing industries.
The African manufacturing industry is a matured market with diverse opportunities stretched across different strata and value chain avenues. Unfortunately, it is characterized by huge disconnects to the disadvantages of stakeholders in her high value manufacturing industries.
The import of this reality has been the national and regional limitations in terms of sustainable access to existing opportunities by African manufacturers even where the capacity and adequate exposure exists. Situations of this kind has led to the death of a good number of companies in the wake of lack of business opportunities nationally.
Similar to the avalanche of business opportunities, Africa also commands a high volume of non-accessible technically sound human skill with the capability to manage all levels of industry challenges wherever they exist and at cost friendlier rate, but for the prevailing disconnect in the industry. The continuous loss of opportunities to non-critical stake holders in the Africa agenda, is a concern more technical and not necessarily all political.
Furthermore, the high value chain opportunities associated with research and development in terms of consumables have remained one of the biggest voids yet to be addressed in millions of dollars. Understandably, there has been a huge lack of interest in research and development as there seems no technical table to manage integration and commercialization of research findings of African origin into Africa’s market space. Whether services or products, the lack of a reliable technical table given to managing the minute details of industry integration, has been a concern until now.
Addressing the challenges enumerated above and more has been the concern and focus of TWF activities. Managing technical frameworks for the integration of industry and market needs in Africa’s manufacturing industries. Establishing platforms for Africa’s manufacturing champions to have sustainable access to opportunities across Africa where capacity gap exists through collaboration.
TWF is also setting that technical table to support the commercialization of African research where they are quality equals, especially in the manufacturing industries e.g., electrodes, gases, fluxes, steels, etc. TWF through its activities is also helping to reduce the cost which companies pay for industrial solutions, where solutions are continentally developed, validated and adopted.
Corporate membership of TWF, sponsorship, and or exhibition at any of TWF Assemblies is fast becoming a guaranteed road map to continental visibility and there are dozens of testimonies to this claim via recent collaborations mostly across East, West and Central Africa countries on pipeline, boilers and related manufacturing opportunities.
Finally, TWF is pleased to assert that it is willing to support manufacturing companies with continental agenda technically, willing to partner companies with commercial research interest as a table of validation, and companies who understand the value of continual investment in technical knowledge as a demonstration of organizational competence and market position.
Follow updates about the TWF 3rd Annual Assembly: Home – TWF Assembly Conference 2025 (twfassembly2025.org)
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