During his tour in Menoufia Governorate, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, and his entourage visited the engineering glass factory of Al Arabi Group, implemented in partnership with the Japanese company Toyoatchi, located on a 20,000 square meter area in Quesna Industrial City, Menoufia, with investments amounting to $25 million.

The Prime Minister emphasized that supporting industry and increasing its localization in Egypt are top priorities for the current and coming phases, with the state keen to provide all supporting factors, foremost of which is equipped infrastructure, to attract local and foreign investments in priority productive sectors.

During the tour, the Prime Minister listened to an explanation from Eng. Ibrahim Al Arabi, Chairman of Al Arabi Group, who stated that the factory produces various types of building facade glass such as double glass, thermal glass, and curved glass, with an annual production capacity of 2 million meters. The factory relies 100% on local components and plans to export 50% of its production to Middle East and African markets. The factory provides about 300 direct job opportunities. Al Arabi confirmed they have started to stop import bills for this product and supply the local market in addition to exports.

The tour included inspecting the glass raw materials storage area, glass cutting process, and preparation stages, with a screen display to monitor cutting operations. They also inspected train and metro glass manufacturing rooms, heat treatment furnaces, and samples of furnace glass products, including glass drilling and engraving operations.

The Prime Minister also viewed an exhibition of glass forming products used in home appliances, architecture, automobiles, and trains. He witnessed a glass load test by driving a car over a glass panel and saw a miniature model of glass used in electronic doors at train and metro stations.

Madbouly also inspected the planned site for the refrigerator factory to be established on 107,000 square meters in partnership with the Japanese company Sharp, with investments of about $108 million and a targeted production capacity of 900,000 units annually. Together, the two projects provide more than 4,000 direct job opportunities.

At the end of the tour, the Prime Minister took a commemorative photo with the factory workers, thanking them and expressing pride in their success in producing an important industry previously imported from abroad, saying: “You have proven that we Egyptians are capable of producing and manufacturing everything in Egypt.”

Eng. Ibrahim Al Arabi expressed his happiness with this important visit by the Prime Minister, Minister of Education, and Menoufia Governor, which sends a message encouraging the large national industry. He added that Al Arabi Group’s strategy is to localize industry and increase exports.

The Chairman also confirmed that the Egyptian citizen deserves to be provided with the product they dream of in terms of quality, technology, and after-sales service for all products bearing the Al Arabi name, pointing to partnerships established by Al Arabi Group in recent years, especially with major global brands trusted by Egyptians such as Sharp Japan, Hoover, Candy, La Germania Italy, Heller Germany, Tornado, Kajito (recently joined the Egyptian market), and many other brands serving millions of customers in Egypt and worldwide.