The TCC opened a commercially-working Metal Bolt Production Unit (SBPU) on the KNUST campus in January 1973. Production continued uninterrupted until the SBPU moved to the Intermediate Expertise Transfer Unit (ITTU) at Suame Journal in August 1980. By that time the SBPU had produced and sold over 200,000 bolt and nut sets, offered eighty man-years of employment and trained 50 artisans in all basic abilities: capstan lathe and milling machine operations and die-forging. In spite of problems of uncooked material provide and the availability of imported tooling, production was maintained and prices were recovered. Nonetheless, the profit margin was low and no non-public enterprise could be persuaded to take up the brand new know-how.
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