1. Egyptian Manufacturing
Strategy 2020
Manufacturing and Materials Department (MMD)
Student Think Tank – Global Manufacturing
Amgad Badewi, PMP, ITIL
Cranfield University
A.badewi@cranfield.ac.uk
Manufacturing and Material Department

2. Historical Manufacturing
Landmarks
• Egypt started manufacturing 7000 years ago
• 1816 Egypt becomes one of the greatest producers of
Cotton and its products in the world
• 1963, first Aeroplane manufactured in the middle east
• 1960, the first car producer in the middle east and north
Africa

3. Current Manufacturing
Landmarks
• Elswedey Electric has largest market share in North
Africa in Wires & Cables
• One of the top three producers of nitrogen-based
fertilizers worldwide
• Largest producers of home appliance electric
products in Arab world and north Africa
• 107 Manufacturing zones in Egypt

4. Manufacturing in Egypt
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Manufacturing, Value Added % of GDP (World Bank Data)
World China Egypt, Arab Rep. United Kingdom Singapore
World Bank Data

5. Manufacturing Egyptian
Exports 2013
Agriculture
products
10%
Engineering
Products
11%
Food
Manufacturing
14%
Others
5%
Garments, Ho
mewear, and
Weaving
16%
Chemnicals
21%
Construction
Materials
23%
Egyptian Ministry of Trade, Exports in 2013 report

6. Weaknesses &
Strengths
Weakness Strengths
Youth
Land
Characteristics
International
Scientists
Illiteracy Level
Political Instability
Investment in
Education & R&D0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
% Investments in R&D*
China Egypt, Arab Rep. United Kingdom
Singapore World
0%
50%
100%
Egypt World China Singapore
Literacy Rate*
*World Bank Data

7. Weakness Strengths
Youth
Location
International
Scientists
Illiteracy Level
Political Instability
Investment in
Education & R&D
1.2 million Egyptian
scientists immigrants (1)
1- http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/229836.aspx
2- World Bank Data
3- http://www.gafi.gov.eg/content/invsectorsdocs/RenewableEnergyvalue.pdf
4- http://www.indexmundi.com/egypt/demographics_profile.html
Egyptian Scientists in Egypt
are 400 per million (Total
36,000) (2)
- 50% of Egyptians below 24 years old (4)
Weaknesses &
Strengths

8. Opportunities & Threats
Threats Opportunities
- Egypt is a net import country for Oil
- Oil is expected to be depleted in 2050
- Egypt subsidizes the oil by 11 Billion GBP per
year in 2013 (7% of the GDP or 17% of the
total government expenditure)
75
80
85
90
95
100
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
% of Fossil Fuel from the total energy used
China Germany Egypt, Arab Rep. United Kingdom Singapore World

9. Egypt
2020
West Egypt
Development
Green Egypt
Suez Canal
& Sinai
Development
• A global Motorway, train line, water
tube, along 1200 Kilo Meters from south to
north Egypt
• 200 new cities will be created
• New 15 industrial cities are proposed
• It is proposed to cost $24 Billion
2 Million Feddans Devoted to
Wind Turbines
Nuclear Power will be in service
Solar Power
- To be a Global Logistic Centre
- A global Ship repair Centre
- Sinai will be a free custom/taxes
zone
- 3 cities for heavy industries
- Expected income $100 Billion per
year

10. Thank You

11. References
• Egyptian Ministry of Investments
• Egyptian Ministry of Environmental Affairs
• Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education
• Foresight (2013). “The Future of Manufacturing: A new era of opportunity and challenge
for the UK Summary Report” The Government Office for Science, London
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) report: Middle East and North Africa Regional
Economic Outlook
• Shafiee&Topal (2009), “When will fossil fuel reserves be diminished?”, Energy
Policy, Vol 37, 181-189
• World Bank Database
• World Economic Forum reports
• Towards the Circular Economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply
chain (2014)
• The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2014
• Global Agenda Outlook 2013