Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli stressed the State’s keenness on exerting all efforts to stimulate the various industrial sectors with the view to localizing industries, particularly in developing specialised technological industries, as well as promoting small and medium industries and increasing their competitiveness, explaining that “Today, we are in a city where the leather industry in Egypt is based, this city is a milestone in this important industry.”
This came during Madbouli’s visit to the first ready-built factories in Roubiki Leather City (Tannerys).
The minister was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Transport Minister Kamel el-Wazir, Chairman of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) Nahed Youssef, Chairman of the Cairo Investment and Development Company Mahmoud Mahrez, and Minister Plenipotentiary Yahya el-Wathiq Billah, in addition to a number of parliamentarians and commercial attaches for China, Italy, India, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, and Germany, and a group of industry experts and major local and foreign leather manufacturers and exporters.
Madbouli said the Egyptian state believed that industrial sector will lead the locomotive of economic development during the current stage, adding that the government has developed the infrastructure to serve this important sector and other sectors.
The government also provides facilities of various types, annexing lands, developing means of transportation, and amending legislations that enable all investors to develop their business, Madbouli added.
The prime minister attended the opening ceremony of the third phase of the eco-industrial Roubiki leather cluster in Badr City that groups 43 fully-equipped factories tailored for leather product manufacturing.
Speaking on this occasion, the transport minister said that Roubiki city has a highly efficient internal and external road network, adding there is a railway line, with a total length of 63 km, which connects Roubiki, 10th of Ramadan and Belbeis to serve the logistical centre in the 10th of Ramadan city and its dry port.
The door for withdrawing brochures and applying electronically will be opened on the platform from December 11 to 25, Wazir further noted.
He added that these factories has different areas to meet all investors’ needs, including 20 factories with an area of 2,000 m2, six factories, stretching over an area of 1,000 m2, and 17 small factories with an area of 121 m2.
