{"id":12388,"date":"2014-04-06T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2014-04-10T18:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:25:44","slug":"gj-supports-polytechnics-with-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=12388","title":{"rendered":"G&#038;J supports polytechnics with generators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana could soon become a major hub for the assembly and manufacture of generator sets. This is the vision of leading generator company G&amp;J technical services.<\/p>\n<p>In line with this long term vision, G&amp;J has outlined a number of programmes to help develop the skill set required to achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>The firm this week donated two sets of generators to the engineering departments of Accra and Kumasi Polytechnics to be used for practical training.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi Business News, Managing Director of G&amp;J Technical, Godfrey Asiedu said the donations are expected to empower the institutions to churn out more technicians with better insight in practical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are supporting the institutions that have helped us over the years to become who we are as a company. The more we train people to get to know what a generator is, as we go on as a country, then gradually we will be able to produce it ourselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Godfrey Asiedu, \u201cproducing generators entail a lot, but, one day, we will get there. Assemblying can be done, but we need economies of scale; in terms of how many we need in a year. We need to do the cost-benefit analysis,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kweku Anim Boadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana could soon become a major hub for the assembly and manufacture of generator sets. This is the vision of leading generator company G&amp;J technical services. In line with this long term vision, G&amp;J has outlined a number of programmes to help develop the skill set required to achieve this. The firm this week donated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-psychiatric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}