Alrubiky Leather City Project

Balrubiky project is considered one of the national projects, which its occurrence to the state and society is advantageous, because the subject of the transfer of tanneries from ancient Egypt to 1995, where when the governor of Cairo issued Resolution No. 161 of 1995 to change the use of the site of north Badr City of Reclamation lands into an industrial zone and customized to tanneries transfer & factories glue to old Egypt dated 05/10/2003 for the transfer of the tanneries, held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister of Ministerial Committee he issued the following decisions:

• Emphasizing on the transfer of tanneries from old Egypt to Balrubiky area of Badr.
• To take advantage of the $ 158 million pounds, which was resulted in the Italian debt swap and convert it to financing of infrastructure and foreign facilities and processing plants for the project work.
• The Cairo Governorate is a party beneficiary of this project, and The Ministry of Industry is the implementing agency.
• Ministry of Industry and Technological Development to Maintain financing half the price of the land held by the tanneries currently till after the re-calculation of the project & the Ministry of Industry and Technological Development to be a funding grant from the Italian and from other sources.