Luanda — A Portuguese business team, comprising affiliates of Portugal's Timber and Furniture Industry Association (AIMMP), will visit Angola on 12-19 of the current month, in the ambit of re-launching this sector in this country.

The delegation is led by the chairman of the association, Fernando Rolin, who said that the visit is aimed at presenting to the Angolan authorities a technical and economic feasibility study to re-launch the timber and furniture industry in the country.

Speaking to ANGOP this Friday, the national director of the Angolan agro-industry department, Pedro Katendi, said that it is set for 15 October the presentation act of the Portuguese technical and technological project to the Angolan officials of the industrial sector.

The official explained that the mission was for the first time in the country last June, to study with the Angolan entrepreneurs ways of creating partnership between the Portuguese and Angolan businesspeople and the establishment of timber and furniture industries.

At that time, the mission went to the provinces of Kwanza Norte and Bié, regions in which two timber and furniture industries are to be set up.

In the northern Cabinda Province, the director said, it is also being projected the construction of an industry of piled timber in order to take advantage of the waste of raw materials used in the saw-mill, carpentries and joineries.

In the framework of implementing Portuguese-Angolan projects, it is also expected the building of eight big carpentries in the provinces of Zaire, Moxico, Bengo, Cabinda, Huambo, Uige, Kuando Kubango and Lunda Norte.