The Cement industry has witnessed a fluctuation during the previous two decades. In the 80s, demand generally had been higher than local supply. The gap was compensated by imports reaching an average of 5.4 MMT.

In the 90s, a similar situation occurred; production increased to reduce the imports. Year 2002 was the end of the import era in the Egyptian markets. By end of year 2004, 11 million tons are being exported to markets in America, Africa, GCC and Europe.

Consequently, cement producers in Egypt enhanced their production lines and increased their capacities to meet the expansion in tourism and related projects together with the boom in real estate and residential construction, as well as the government embarking on several infrastructure development projects. All this gave rise to higher demand in the market of building materials. ECC entered and penetrated the market in 1998 with a production of 1.7 MMT within the first year to reach 7.2 MMT annually in 2004.

2005 witnesses the extension of ECC’s nominal capacity to 8.5 MMT/Y to meet increasing demand in the local & export cement markets, a challenge that will be met head-on.