Sunday 15/June/2025 – 05:24 PM
Khaled Abu Al -Makarim, head of the Export Council for Chemical Industries, said that 80% of some fertilizer production factories have stopped working due to a reduction in the supply of natural gas.
Abu Al -Makarim expected, in statements to Cairo 24, that the exports of Egyptian chemical industries decreased, but the percentage is not clear due to the blurring of the continued reduction of gas for the fertilizer industry.
Natural gas alternatives
Abu Al -Makarim added: We cannot ask the government to increase the supply of natural gas to fertilizer factories after the operation of the new three changes due to liquefied natural gas shortages, explaining that fertilizer and chemical factories are looking for alternatives to natural gas to raise the rate of production.
For his part, Mohamed Hanafi, head of the Chamber of Mineral Industries in the Federation of Industries, told Cairo 24 that the iron factories have not received a decision to reduce the supply of natural gas, but the industry is awaiting the situation in Egypt.
In the same context, Ayman Al -Ashry, head of Al -Ashry Hadid, said that the natural gas supply of iron factories has not yet been reduced.
