{"id":23625,"date":"2025-10-16T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23625"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:04:39","slug":"15-million-factory-at-sokhna-to-spur-textile-production-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/15-million-factory-at-sokhna-to-spur-textile-production-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"$15 million factory at Sokhna to spur textile production in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Suez Canal Economic Zone and Infinity Fabric on October 15, 2025 proposed a $15-million textile production facility at Ain Sokhna in Egypt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occupying 2.4 hectares of land near the Red Sea, the factory will churn out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecofinagency.com\/news-agriculture\/1610-49592-egypt-signs-15m-deal-for-new-textile-factory-in-sokhna\"><u>6,000 tonnes&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>of yarn and 15,000 tonnes of fabric annually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon completion in quarter 3, 2026, the plant will prioritize production and dawn some 1,000 direct employment chances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longterm aim of the deal is to expand Egypt\u2019s exports fourfold from the $2.81 billion of 2024 to $12 billion before 2031.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also enhance the national yarn- and -garment making sector, whose market valuation might reach $11.85 billion by 2030, per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mordorintelligence.com\/industry-reports\/egypt-textile-manufacturing-industry-study-market\"><u>independent analysis<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-which-are-the-sources-of-the-textile\"><strong>Which are the Sources of the Textile?&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Growth momentum will emanate from the yarn, lint and fiber sub-sectors, through cotton, flax and wool raw materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding wool, its yarn is the primary product for the textile sector, which in turn converts it to warm clothing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning the 14<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century B.C., Egypt prided in rearing sheep with corkscrew horns for wool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 centuries later in 2018, the country had a sheep herd of over 5.69 million head, more than any other livestock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2022, the wool yarn sector was still strong, with production of shorn wool at 11, 850 tonnes, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>FAO<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cotton in its part has come from being an underdog into a major source of lint for breathable cloth weaving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before 1800, the fiber was insignificant for Egypt but by 2024 imports were at 450,000 bales against a production of 310,000 bales. This was in order to meet burgeoning textile demand, per an U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other textile sources with strong utility include flax seed of which Egypt is a top exporter alongside the likes of&nbsp;<a href=\" www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/russia-about-to-rob-canada-flaxseed-market-\"><u>Russia<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;and India. The fabric undergoes exports either retted or as finished linen. And as the statistics below point out,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/egypt\/linseed-flax\/\"><u>competitively priced flax<\/u><\/a>, unlike other fabrics, enjoys steady production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-egypt-textile-production-statistics\"><strong>Egypt Textile Production&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt prides in three major yarn or lint materials, namely cotton, flax seed and wool, which supplement synthetic fibers in textile making. While 2019-23 raw or retted flax seed output stabilized at&nbsp;<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>7,700 tonnes<\/u><\/a>, ginned cotton production fluctuated from&nbsp;59,000 to 90,000 tonnes&nbsp;annually. In 2024, the country\u2019s cotton-milling capacity stood at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.fas.usda.gov\/newgainapi\/api\/Report\/DownloadReportByFileName?fileName=Cotton%20and%20Products%20Annual_Cairo_Egypt_EG2024-0009.pdf\"><u>600,000 bales<\/u><\/a>, 450,000 of which would be imports primarily from Sudan, per an USDA forecast. The data below, courtesy the Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>FAO<\/u><\/a>), underlines five-year production patterns of the two fibers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Ginned cotton lint Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Unginned cotton Seed Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>220,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>90,000<\/td><td>350,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>59,000<\/td><td>160,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>73,000<\/td><td>281, 962<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:&nbsp;<em>cotton lint (ginned) and cotton seed (unginned) production in Egypt, 2019-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>7,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>7,737<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>7,718<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>7,742<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:&nbsp;<em>flax seed (raw or retted) production in Egypt, 2019-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wool and fleece, too, go into the North African nation\u2019s winter clothing industry. The below figures from the&nbsp;<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;tabulate the 2019-22 output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>11,851<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>11,855<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>11,628<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:&nbsp;<em>shorn wool production in Egypt, 2019-22<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suez Canal Economic Zone and Infinity Fabric on October 15, 2025 proposed a $15-million textile production facility at Ain Sokhna in Egypt.&nbsp; Occupying 2.4 hectares of land near the Red Sea, the factory will churn out&nbsp;6,000 tonnes&nbsp;of yarn and 15,000 tonnes of fabric annually.&nbsp; Upon completion in quarter 3, 2026, the plant will prioritize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.3 (Yoast SEO v20.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>$15 million factory at Sokhna to spur textile production in Egypt - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; 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