The Autonomous Bougainville Government will not have to spend millions of kina to purchase any gravel from other centers in the country.
It will produce its own aggregate, at the crushing site at Wakunai, in Central Bougainville.
The crusher was bought at one million kina, from Kitano Road Works Construction.
The Autonomous Bougainville Government will no longer waste time waiting for aggregate shipment from outside the region, but use gravel produced from its own crushing plant.
The plant stationed at Wakunai in Central Bougainville can produce 150 tonnes of sealing chip per hour.
Those aggregates are for the high impact projects such as roads, airports and bridges.
While the crusher will be hard at work, producing these aggregates, Mr Kolan at the same time challenged the Autonomous Bougainville Government to ensure the machine is sustained.
Mr. Kolan said that Bougainville can become a domestic and international supplier of aggregates, to generate its internal revenue, as it has the raw materials.
Meanwhile the Kokopau to Siara road in North Bougainville will be resealed, as advised by the Project Management Unit.
The road is currently being reassessed, with the contract to be retendered.
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