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Prime Minister Madbouly inaugurates $100 million hygiene products plant in Sokhna

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly inaugurated the Modern Hygienic International plant, a $100 million facility for paper and hygiene products, at the Integrated Sokhna Industrial Zone within the Suez Canal Economic Zone SCZone. Madbouly emphasized the government's focus on projects that supply essential production inputs, especially those currently imported, to localize manufacturing and position Egypt as a regional industrial and logistics hub. Walid Gamal El-Din, Chairman of the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone, stated that the authority is working to address challenges for industrial developers and investors, aligning with its strategy to localize industry and logistics across 21 sectors. He added that the Modern project supports local value chains, reduces production costs, and helps the economy by increasing local content of raw materials, benefiting consumers and strengthening export competitiveness. Mohamed Sobhy, Chairman of Modern Hygienic International, confirmed the project's $100 million investment and 106.4 thousand square meter area. The factory produces paperboard for hygiene products, including infant and adult diapers, with an annual capacity of up to 1.2 billion finished diapers and 4,500 tons of raw materials. Sobhy detailed expansion plans to produce a broader range of paper products, detergents, cosmetics, and paper pulp to meet domestic demand for finished goods and raw materials, leveraging the SCZone location for increased production an