The establishment of offices in Israel to handle millions of dollars worth of mechanical engineering and construction contracts throughout Africa, was announced today by Jack Schechter, president of the J.E. Schecter Corporation of Long Island City, New York, a major American firm specializing in air conditioning, ventilation, sanitation, electric power distribution and allied mechanical contracting for industry.
Upon his return from a five-week trip to Israel and several African nations, Mr. Schechter stated that his company, together with industrial contracting interests in Israel, would employ Israeli personnel in key managerial and supervisory positions and utilize some Israel-made products in carrying out a number of major mechanical contracts his firm had obtained in Nigeria and Ghana.
Mr. Schechter said that his company was in the process of obtaining similar contracts in other African states and that the same policy of using Israeli skilled labor and technicians would be followed there.
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