Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Industry 1 (2018) Report American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt - Business Information Center 1 of 35 Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Special Remarks The Industry Q1 2018 report provides a comprehensive overview of the Industry sector with focus on top tenders, big List of sub-sectors projects and important news. Cement Chemicals Tenders Section Construction Materials Electrical & Household Appliances - Integrated Jobs (Having a certain engineering component) - sorted by Electronics - Generating Sector (the sector of the client who issued the tender and who would pay for the goods & services ordered) Elevators - Client Engineering Fertilizers & Agro Chemicals Food & Beverage - Supply Jobs Metallic - Generating Sector Packaging & Wrapping - Client Paper Petrochemicals Non-Tenders Section Plastics & Derivatives Printing - Business News Refractories & Ceramics - Projects Awards - Projects in Pre-Tendering Phase Refrigeration & Air Conditioning - Privatization and Investments Safety Equipment - Published Co. Performance Sports Equipment - Loans & Grants Steel - Fairs and Exhibitions Textile Vessels Building This report includes tenders with bid bond greater than L.E. 25,000 and valuable tenders without bid bond Wood Tenders may be posted under more than one sub-sector Copyright Notice &RS\ULJKW$PHULFDQ&KDPEHURI&RPPHUFHLQ(J\SW $P&KDP $OOULJKWVUHVHUYHG1HLWKHUWKHFRQWHQWRIWKH7HQGHUV$OHUW6HUYLFH 7$6 QRUDQ\SDUWRILWPD\EHUHSURGXFHG sorted in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. In no event shall AmCham be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits. American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt - Business Information Center 2 of 35 Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Cement - Non Tenders Section Type Description Date Published Business News That was reported in the media indicating the country's building materials exports would witness almost 40 % increase in 2018 to reach $ 2 billion compared with $ 1.5 Mar 05, 2018 billion in 2017. Projects in Pre-Tendering Phase An entity identified as the Egyptians for Cement Projects placing a public invitation to review the environmental impact of a so called (new) Egyptians' Cement Factory in Mar 03, 2018 Sohag. Meeting will be held on 3/19/2018 at 10 a.m. at the Civil Education & Youth Qualifying Center (Leaders Qualifying Center} in Sohag till 1 a.m. Published Co. Performance NSPO - National Service Projects Org. of the Armed Forces, inviting suppliers & customers to register their entities at El Arish Cement Co., Egypt' newest cement factory Mar 09, 2018 in Sinai to resume operations. Deadline to register is set for April 7, 2018 on E Mail www.nspo.com.eg N.B. Egypt announced it well pear 50 % of cement transport cost to both Iraq and Libya. American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt - Business Information Center 3 of 35 Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Chemicals - Tenders Section Supply Jobs Generating Subject Bid Bond Curren Publish Expiry Financing Sector cy Date Date Health Care Akhbar El Yom Est., the Foreign Purchasing Committee Import/ siupply of 80,000 M2 (sensitized) printing plates CTP thermal & violet 190,000 LE Jan 09, 2018 Jan 31, 2018 Cairo University Hospitals, the Chemicals Dept. Supply of PCR Chemicals 80,000 LE Feb 18, 2018 Mar 04, 2018 American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt - Business Information Center 4 of 35 Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Chemicals - Tenders Section Supply Jobs Generating Subject Bid Bond Curren Publish Expiry Financing Sector cy Date Date Health Care Dar Al Fouad Hospital for Heart & Chest Surgery, Local Purchases Dept. Supply of X Ray pigments 28,345 LE Feb 21, 2018 Mar 04, 2018 E.N.R. Egyptian National Railways Authority, the Purchases & Stores Dept Supply of paints to the different ENR workshops 45,000 LE Jan 07, 2018 Jan 16, 2018 American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt - Business Information Center 5 of 35 Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Chemicals - Tenders Section Supply Jobs Generating Subject Bid Bond Curren Publish Expiry Financing Sector cy Date Date Health Care General Org. for Hospitals & Teaching Institutes, El Sahel Teaching Hospital Supply of pollution combating requisites 100,000 LE Jan 17, 2018 Jan 31, 2018 HADISOLB - Egyptian Iron & Steel Co., Foreign Purchases Committee Supply of 600 tons dry coal pitch for the dolomite presses $ 3,500 $ Jan 18, 2018 Feb 05, 2018 Request of international offers to import (a) spare parts for 750 Hp Russian locomotives & (b) 50,000 tons $ 6,000 &$ $ Mar 20, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 (metallurgical) coking coal 200,000 Chemicals - Non Tenders Section Type Description Date Published Business News A decree of Egypt's Minister of Trade & Industry directing to continue applying export fees on mining raw materials for one year. That included talc powder, marble & Feb 13, 2018 granite blocks, quartz & sand. The Minister has further assured that the decree was coordinated & supported by all concerned government agencies & information centers serving business organizations including the data banks at the Imports & Exports Control Authority, the Mineral Wealth Authority, the Chemicals Industry Chamber of Petroleum & Mining, also the Chamber of Construction Materials at the Federation of Industries. The Minister confirmed that all the above entities requested to continue applying that tax. The decree enters in force as of 2/10/2018. Projects Awards Egypt's Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Wealth has witnessed the signing of the contract for the Phosphoric Acid Complex Project in Abu Tartour in El Wadi El Gedid Mar 15, 2018 valued $ 750 million to annually produce 1 million tons of Phosphoric Acid. That was reported in the media indicating it was signed between Eng. Khaled Al Ghazali Harb, Head of El Wadi Co. for Phosphate Industries & Industries, Eng. Mohamed Hathout, Chairman of ENNPI Co., John Simon Artiga, Head of Flour Co. of the US, Technology Holder & Geologist Fikri Yousef, Undersecretary for Mineral Wealth. Worth indicating is that Abu Tartour Area& hill disposes on raw phosphate to produce phosphoric acid estimated at 1 billion tons. Projects in Pre-Tendering Phase A project revived to re-operate a reasonably sized salt export & processing complex in Beer El Abd in Sinai which has stopped working since 2011, to involve investments Jan 28, 2018 estimated at L.E. 1.5 billion. A project seems now revived to re-operate a reasonably sized salt export & processing complex in Beer El Abd which has stopped working since 2011, to involve investments estimated at L.E. 1.5 billion. That was announced by Dr. Eng. Mohamed Saad, member of the board of directors of the Investors Societies Union & of Sinai Development Committee who has been coordinating with Sinai Governor - General Abdel Fattah Harhour, to manage the issuance of required approvals to re-operate the complex as a first phase. That, according to DR. M Saad, will be followed with the construction of the required factories to produce salt derivatives such as the caustic soda and the chlorine now exported in raw form. Worth reminding is that the Investors' Societies Union has held earlier a conference under the slogan Development VZV Terror in Sinai and it was attended by Mz. Dr. Hala El Said, Minister of Planning & Follow up, also by General Mohamed El Zamallout, Governor of El Wadi El Gedid a.o. During that conference Mr. Mohamed Farid Khamis Honorary Chairman of the Oriental Weavers Group, announced the launching of the Holding Co. for Sinai Development capitalized at L.E. 200 million issued capital to which both Mr. Khamis & the BUE (British University Egypt) contributed L.E. 20 million each. American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt - Business Information Center 6 of 35 Industry Sector - Q1 2018 Report Construction Materials - Tenders Section Supply Jobs Generating Subject Bid Bond Curren Publish Expiry Financing Sector cy Date Date Transport Nile General Co. for Roads & Bridges, Contracts & Purchases Request of international offers for the supply & erection of machines of a new factory to produce 20,000 single piece 300,000 LE Feb 12, 2018 Mar 06, 2018 precast railway sleepers Construction Materials - Non Tenders Section Type Description Date Published Business News A decree of Egypt's Minister of Trade & Industry directing to continue applying export fees on mining raw materials for one year. That included talc powder, marble & Feb 13, 2018 granite blocks, quartz & sand. The Minister has further assured that the decree was coordinated & supported by all concerned government agencies & information centers serving business organizations including the data banks at the Imports & Exports Control Authority, the Mineral Wealth Authority, the Chemicals Industry Chamber of Petroleum & Mining, also the Chamber of Construction Materials at the Federation of Industries. The Minister confirmed that all the above entities requested to continue applying that tax. The decree enters in force as of 2/10/2018. Egypt's Minister of Transport urging the Minister of Petroleum & Minerals to find a solution to encounter bitumin shortages facing roads construction projects. That was Feb 17, 2018 reported in the media indicating the Minister of Transport, Dr. Eng. Hesham Arafat, has committed to solve the problem in the next few days after repeated claims were received from contractors involved in executing the National Roads Project. On his side another claim of bitumin shortage was expressed by Eng. Ali El Sayyad, Chairman of the Nile Co. for Roads Construction who indicated his company owns about 26 concrete mixers requiring thousands of tons of bitumin monthly & is suffering from its shortage on the market. Projects Awards An Egyptian consortium grouping Mokhtar Ibrahim & Petrojet was awarded L.E. 7.12 billion contract in Oman to pump soft water from Sohar in Al Zafra Governorate via Jan 02, 2018 225 Km long ductile cast iron & reinforced concrete pipeline of 1,200 to 1,600 mm.