Egypt

UFlex has commissioned two presses at its aseptic packaging facility in Egypt.

Kenlead is building a packaging film plant in Qantara West in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, Egypt, on a 170,000 square meter site with EGP 4.16 billion of self-financed investment. Operations start with two lines and output is targeted to reach 48,000 to 60,000 tonnes a year by 2027.

UFlex is preparing to start commercial production by the end of 2026 at a new US$126 million, 30-acre aseptic packaging plant in Ain Sokhna, Egypt, with annual capacity of 12 billion packs. The plant will be Asepto's second manufacturing base after India.

Eroğlu Global Holding signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a carton and packaging factory in Qantara West Industrial Zone, with a $175 million investment and about 2,000 direct jobs. The plant will span 70,000 square meters.

Cepack Group, part of Egypt's HSA Group, signed an agreement with BHS Germany to install a new corrugated cardboard production line, expected to raise its production capacity by around 70%. No timeline or investment value was disclosed.

Cairo Company for Packaging Materials (Cobac) plans a new factory with an investment of EGP 2.8 to 3 billion, which will raise its total BOPP film capacity to 67,000 tonnes per year and support exports to Europe and the US.

Egyptian carton maker Cepack Group, part of HSA Group, signed an agreement with German supplier BHS Corrugated to install a third corrugator line, raising its production capacity by 70%. The agreement was signed at HSA Group's headquarters in Dubai.

Egyptian cardboard producer Cepack Group signed an agreement with BHS to add a new BHS corrugated cardboard production line, raising its production capacity by about 70%. The announcement is dated August 31, 2025.

Turkish company UR-SA signed an investment contract with Egypt's SCZone to build a 35,000 square meter industrial textiles and plastic packaging plant in Qantara West, with $20 million investment and 1,000 expected jobs.

Huhtamaki Egypt received a Golden License from the Egyptian Cabinet to build a molded fiber packaging plant using recycled wastepaper in Sadat City, with EGP 1.47 billion investment and over 61 direct jobs. Operations are planned to start in August 2026.

Massoud Steel signed an agreement to establish a metal packaging factory in the Sokhna Industrial Zone, Egypt, with a total investment of USD 19 million. Operations are expected to start in Q1 2026 and create about 130 direct jobs.

PerfoTec BV signed a strategic partnership with Egypt-based GoodSeal Packaging Company, including a global PerfoTec licensing agreement and a significant order for PerfoTec equipment, to expand into North Africa and the Middle East.

The Egyptian Cabinet granted Huhtamaki Egypt a Golden License for a new 21,700 sqm molded fiber packaging factory in Sadat City, Monufia Governorate, valued at about EGP 1.5 billion including EUR 24 million foreign investment. Production will include paper fruit trays, cup carriers and egg cartons.

AVK Gulf has secured a USD 20 million contract to supply valves for the transmission line feeding the water treatment plant of Egypt's New Administrative Capital, east of Cairo.

AVK Gulf was awarded a contract worth USD 20 million to supply valves up to DN2200 for water transmission lines serving the New Administrative Capital water treatment plant east of Cairo, Egypt, reported on 31 October 2024.

The Arab Organization for Industrialization opened a production line for safe gas valves for cooking stoves at its subsidiary Arab British Dynamics (ABD) in Egypt, with capacity of 1 million valves a year. Plans call for lines to reach 5 million valves a year within three years.

Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals (SIDPEC) of Egypt and Ran Gas Limited of Nigeria plan a joint $30 million plant in Alexandria to produce one million LPG cylinders per year, mainly for export to Nigeria from 2027. The information comes from an unnamed government official.

Flex Accipto, a UFlex Group subsidiary, signed a $120 million deal with Orascom Industrial Parks to expand its packaging plant on a 150,000 square metre area in Sokhna within the Suez Canal Economic Zone. The signing was witnessed by the SCZONE chairman on 20 June 2023.

Egypt's Trade and Industry Minister inaugurated the first phase of a water pump factory built by Xylem, worth EGP 300 million ($9.7 million), on 22 May 2023. The plant will serve Egypt and export half its output to the Middle East and Africa.

Sterling and Wilson signed a contract with Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO) for the mechanical works of the Dahshour compressor station expansion, funded by the EBRD. The contract is worth $3 million.

Egypt's Ibda initiative signed a shareholder agreement with Spain's Coperci, part of Mondragon, to build Egypt's first gas safety valve factory with capacity of 15 million valves and an investment of about $7.6 million, scheduled to open in April 2023.

Egypt's Ibda initiative signed a shareholder agreement with Spain's Coperci, part of Mondragon group, to set up Egypt's first gas safety valve factory with capacity of 15 million valves and an investment of about $6.7 million, scheduled to open in April 2023.

Taiwanese firm Richy, with Egypt's Al Arabi Group, plans an air conditioner compressor plant in the Kom Abu Radi industrial zone in Beni Suef, Egypt, with total investment of $33 million and a capacity of 6 million compressors per year. Production is planned to start in 2024.

Valvitalia SpA signed a contract worth $5,086,356.60 with Egyptian Natural Gas Co. (GASCO) for the Al Waleedia pressure reduction and metering station, scheduled for completion by April 2027.

Saad Eldin Gases is investing $3 million in a joint venture with Italy's OMB Valves to build an automotive valve plant in Abu Rawash, Giza, with a 70/30 stake split and production expected within six months.