LTO to produce vehicle plates with newly acquired machines
GOOD THINGS COME to those who wait. The Land Transportation Office (LTO) HAS acquired seven units of plate-making machines, enabling the agency to produce its own vehicle plates.
On April 6, 2018, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade inspected the manual embossing machines at the LTO motor vehicle license plate facility.
The plate-making machines arrived last February 26 as part of the contract of Trojan Computer Forms Manufacturing Corporation and JH. Tonnjes E.A.S.T. GmbH Joint Venture, which aims to address the license plates backlog from July 2016 and beyond.
The contract specified only five manual plate-making machines, but the contractor added two more units for temporary use at no additional cost.
One unit of automated embossing machine will also be delivered in July and will start to be operational by August this year.
Besides Secretary Tugade, LTO Executive Director Romeo Vera Cruz, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Chairman Martin Delgra III, and other DOTr road sector officials were among those present during the inspection of the plate-making machines.
The seven units of manual embossing machines have a combined capacity of producing 22,000 vehicle plates per day, while the automated embossing machine is capable of producing 12,000 plates a day.
via Philippine News Agency / Aerol John Pateña
