Vice president commission new sanitary pad production line partnered by Softcare

In meeting Ghana’s domestic manufacturing needs and boosting the economy, the vice president, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has commissioned a new production line of Softcare FM manufacturing company.

The government partnership is a major move in Ghana’s agenda to revitalise the with manufacturing industry.

At the commissioning of the new production factory on Monday, December 15, 2025, Professor Opoku-Agyemang reaffirmed president Mahama’s commitment to transform the country’s economy through mechanism like empowering softcare FM manufacturing company.

“The government of His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama, is committed to the systematic transformation of Ghana’s economy.

One mechanism to achieve this aim is the Ghana framework for industrialization and transformation. Today’s commissioning show that this strategy is producing results.

The partnership with Softcare show that is possible when a capable private sector responds to predictable business-friendly policy environment.

She added that government’s target is the production of sanitary pads to be added as exports which will in the long run boost the economy.

“We believe that Africa must move beyond exporting raw materials, whether cocoa, oil, copper, diamond, shea, gold or more. The future lies in processing and value addition. This is how we expand our share of global trade and create sustainable employment, local ownership, supported by capital and technology, which is essential to this transformation,” Professor Opoku-Agyemang said.