HFP unlocks opportunities for investors at its $20m industrial park

HFP Engineering Nigeria Limited, a leading development, civil engineering and construction company, has opened investment opportunity for savvy investors at its expansive industrial park estimated to have cost $20 million along with an interlocking paving and kerbs stone factory.

At the time HFP celebrated its 30th anniversary, a couple of years ago, it had put about 6,500 housing units on the Nigerian property market from its commercial and residential property developments.

Victoria Garden City (VGC), usually referred to as paradise by the Lagos Lagoon, remains HFP’s flagship project in residential accommodation construction and the success of that project gave birth to Mayfair Garden, which is being succeeded by Springville Estate – another signature development in Lekki axis.

HFP has been involved in road construction and rehabilitation projects and was the architect of the use of interlocking paving stones for road construction in Lagos and other parts of the country.

At the unveiling of the new HFP Industrial Park, which was performed by Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, represented by Obafemi Hamzat, the state commissioner for works and infrastructure, Dele Martins, HFP’s group managing director, said “the park is an expression of their desire to replicate in the industrial sector what they have successfully done in mixed residential and commercial market developments.”

The park, which sits on approximately 20.66 hectares of land, he said, is their response to the discovery that the Ibeju-Lekki axis, where the park is situated, is a major development region in the state, adding that the park has been designed as an ideal permanent operation base for industries and large-scale commercial organisations from which to provide their products and services to their customers.

The facilities designed for the HFP Industrial Park include well laid interlocking paved roads; streetlights; water treatment plant; PHCN mains and back-up electricity supply, and water treatment plant. Others are sewage waste treatment plant; 24 hour communal security; effective management and maintenance of communal facilities, and on site accommodation for key personnel.

The interlocking paving and kerbs stone factory, Martins said, started full operations in 2011, pointing out that “the factory is an ultra-modern facility with state-of-the-art computerised Zenith Model 844 machines manufactured in Germany.”

These machines, he disclosed, have a combined capacity to produce up to 3,500 square metres of paving stones per day, adding that the combined capacity for kerb stones production is up to 6000 linear metres per day.

“HFP pioneered and has sustained the production of durable high quality paving stones, kerb stones and precast elements for building and road construction in Nigeria,” he said, adding, “we are very proud to be the first and only company, so far, to receive the MANCAP Certificate of Quality and Compliance by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in respect of our paving stones.”

Continuing, he said the watch words for HFP in everything they do, particularly in their paving and kerb stones and precast element products, were quality and customer satisfaction, and “this is one of the reasons why we voluntarily submitted our products to the tedious, rigourous, time consuming and expensive process of obtaining certification of our products by the SON.”