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Paint Factory Makurdi
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1.8 LIMITATION OF RESEARCH
Due
to the limitation of standard paint factories in Nigeria, one is
limited to researching with only the small scale private paint
factories.
In researching with the private factories it was
discovered that the factories were over protective of their setting.
They feared that their competitors might get hold of information given
out for the research and have a hold over them. Some of them that
co-operated discourage photographs.
Also the fact that the country
is not in peace due to the Boko Haram and other threats, the factories
are conscious and at the same time trying to protect their life and
properties.
Materials on paint factories are not much available in
libraries, research institutes, records and documents on paint factories
in Nigeria.
1.9 IMPORTANCE OF THE PROJECT
The importance or the breaks through this project hope to achieve are:
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To provide a comprehensive setting for paint industry in Nigeria in
order to help improve the economy attains technology and industrial
independence.
• To create job opportunities for the increasing labour forces.
• It will help in saving foreign exchange by providing goods which would have been purchased abroad.
1.10 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FACTORY
The
factory began with the shop-connected residence as in Ancient Egypt,
then the open air workshops and the home the home industry as in Greece.
Then, some specialized craft and trades like metal smiting, carpentry,
pottery, shoe making were home industry; therefore, operation were in
dwelling houses.
When the need for expansion began, separate work
shed from homes was realized. However, this did not survive for too
long, for with the collapse of the Roman Empire, the industry reverted
to its original dwelling-house status – the gradual detachment from home
only started again with the emergence of the guild system between the
12th and 15th centuries.
By this period, the trades men were engaged
in producing stained glass, pottery, tapestries and metal work in great
quantities – all operations being carried out in small shops.
This
stage was followed by the beginning of the 15th century, by the
emergence of large city workshop; derived from the strong influence of
the monasteries, and the basomial manors.
Then came the modern
factory system during the 2nd half of the 18th century. This stage in
the factory evolution was made possible by certain technological
inventions like the Spinning Jenny, Samuel Cromptoris mule in 1779,
Edmund Cartwrights power loom in 1785 and James Watts steam engine, also
in 1785. Manufacturing at this stage developed to much a high level
that the whole of Europe was ploughed into the great industrial
Revolution.
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