Patrick Teufack: Experience in glass
Through his company, SOBAF specializing in metalwork, he wants to conquer Africa centrale.Lazare Kolyang
Until 1987 he was project manager at Metalu. That year, the company that was controlled by expatriates, put the key under the doormat: the economic crisis and had to hit one of the jewels of public works and construction in Cameroon. Seven years after his appointment, having been head of manufacturing service from 1980 to 1982 in this company, and after a brief stint in training to Step in France, the young civil engineer, 1980 to promote the Ecole nationale supérieure polytechnique de Yaoundé becomes unemployed. But with the support of some local businessmen, he decided to stay in the area and established the League of builders of the future (SOBAF), incorporated business from 2,000 shares to 10,000 CFA francs each, and a Staff estimated at approximately ten to twenty years employés.Près after its inception, today SOBAF figure head leader in the field of joinery, building and public works in the landscape of Cameroon. The company can then engage in partnerships with major foreign groups. May 4, 2006, for example, two machines, a leveling hydraulic Nl-1409 & Nl2014 Combine cereal and type Bz 7000, as revolutionary in the context of Cameroon, were presented to traders. These are, for one who occupies the post of Director General of SOBAF since its inception in 1988, the first fruits of a partnership agreement signed with Metal Plessis, a Canadian partner. But with modesty, he claims not to be the best in the industry. Simply, it is the company among the largest in the country. And to better prove it, he recounts, with figures to support the development of society. "Established with a capital of 20 million francs with a dozen employees, SOBAF employs around 200 people. Its capital is increased to 80 million CFA francs. "With his experience gained over 26 years in this sector as much during his visit to Metalu currently head of the SOBAF Patrick Teufack not tender with some adventurers who go into business. "In a field as technical as ours, we are witnessing in recent times a plethora of individuals and companies that run into the job without experience and without technical and offer consumers Products outsized, "he says. He justifies this by the fact that" the sector is not controlled and the union does not exist, we witness a competition that creates the confusion with the entry sometimes fraudulent products. All things that normally choke those who pay their taxes. "To his credit, several finishing work on buildings in our major cities, but also in certain capitals in the region of Central Africa." For three years the company has undertaken internationalize. For now, engineers SOBAF travel to certain cities in the sub-region for knowledge transfer. Among the work already completed include the expansion of the airport at Bangui, "he says.
