Egypt’s Industrial Investments Record EGP 534 bln Till 2012

The cumulative value of the Egyptian industrial investments recorded EGP 534 billion till February 2012, according to data that “Amwal Al Ghad” got from the ministry of industry and foreign trade.
The data revealed that the total investment cost is distributed on 33046 factories that registered in the Industrial Development Authority (IDA), since the official industrial activity in Egypt had started, till February 2012.  
These factories work in several productive sectors, such as the crop and animal production, extracting and refining coal and petroleum, natural gas products, extracting metal material, using mines, quarries, food industries, tobacco, textile, clothes, leather, wood, and there products.
Other products are being used like paper, printing, publishing,  main chemicals, building materials, pottery, basic metal industries, engineering, electronic and electricity industries, as well as producing and distributing lighting.
The investment volume of  basic metal industries sector recorded in 2012 EGP 89.6 billion, then the food industries and tobacco amounted to EGP 80 billion.