Productivity is one of the main concerns of business management and engineering and establishment of ways and means of analyzing and improving productivity is key to survival. Productivity growth is important to any organization because more real income means the firm can meet its obligations to customers, suppliers, workers, shareholders, and governments (taxes and regulation), and still remain competitive or even improve its competitiveness in the marketplace.One of the Centres recently established at DeKUT is the Centre for Productivity & Engineering (CIPE) whose main objective is to boost the productivity growth in Kenyan Industries, Corporates, Parastatals, State Agencies and Enterprises through trainings and consultancies.Torrent East Africa has partnered with our CIPE in their journey for continuous improvement of industrial productivity to enhance the company's competitive advantage.

In line with her mandate and this partnership, CIPE conducted a five-day training at Torrent East Africa on industrial productivity improvement, quality management and supervisory skills development. The training was conducted for both managerial and manufacturing staff members to build capacity on productivity and quality improvement in the company as a high-end manufacturer of bottle closures through injection moulding.