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Case study #20: "Green Industrialization Leaders in Africa: What added value do they bring?"

New case study published by the Observatory: “Green Industrialization Leaders in Africa: What added value do they bring?”

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Railway equipment / South-Africa

South African rail equipment manufacturers Naledi Ringrollers and Gear Rail complete the list of “Leaders in Green Industrialization in Africa”.

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Solink EA Ltd. / Kenya

Solink EA Ltd. joins the list of the “Directory of Green Industrialization Leaders in Africa”.

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Solar panels / Nigeria

Dutch solar module producer Solarge to produce 1 GW lightweight panels/year in Nigeria. the manufacturing project is scheduled to begin in Q1/2024 for commercial operations to begin in 2025.

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Solar Panels / Nigeria

Auxano has commissioned a new 100 MW solar panel manufacturing unit in Ibeju Lekki (east of Lagos).

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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Consortium / Africa

At COP28, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria and Togo officially expressed their interest in joining the Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Consortium.

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Solar-powered water desalination plant / Tunisia

Inauguration of Desaltec-z1 at the Slim oil mill in Zarzis. The new plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy.

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Solar Water Filter / Kenya

Kenyan start-up INNO-Neat Energy Solutions, founded in 2022, has designed “SafiSolar”, a solar water filter that makes water drinkable. The device is designed for rural areas.

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Electrically assisted bike / Morocco

Moroccan start-up Cloud Bike produces “Telus Bike”, the first electrically-assisted bicycle “Made in Morocco”.
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Rail Transportation Equipment / Egypt

Alstom plans to install two rail equipment manufacturing units (signalling panels, control circuits, electrical braids + various types of mobile units for metro lines, streetcars, light rail, monorail and express trains). Location: Borg al-Arab.

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Electric vehicle / South-Africa

From 2024, BMW will manufacture the X3 hybrid model at its Rosslyn plant.

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Hydrogen sector / Africa

The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center is bringing together stakeholders from Africa’s green hydrogen sector for a discussion on Wednesday, June 21st at 13:30 GMT (3.30pm french time)

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Nigeria / Main manufacturers of photovoltaic panels in Africa

The three main manufacturers of photovoltaic panels in Africa are ART Solar (South Africa Durban factory), Sunprism (Egypt) and Borno (Nigeria)

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Egypt / Solar concentrators

Absolicon will install a solar collector production line for Creative Power Solutions. Start-up expected in 2024.

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Egypt - Railway manufacturing

The National Egyptian Railway Industries Company (NERIC) will begin manufacturing electric locomotives at its East Port Said factory by the end of 2022 (Entreprise – 21/02/2022).

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Egypt - Electric buses

The Egyptian Minister of Transport has signed contracts with two of the country’s public companies for the manufacture and procurement of 100 locally produced electric buses (Ecofin – 06/12/2022).

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Togo - Solar panels

A young self-taught entrepreneur (Lallé Nadjagou) manufactures intelligent solar panels, called “Solar Tracker” and “Panel Cleaner”. The panels are made from materials that are allowed to be recycled (Our Voice – 05/12/2022 – Togo).

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Nigéria - Port of Lekki

The new port of Lekki has officially opened its quays. It is intended to relieve congestion in the port of Lagos and Tin Can. Located 65 km east of Lagos, the port of Lekki was created from scratch (Ports et Corridors-08/11/22).

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Senegal / Solar kits

The French company Lagazel has set up a new workshop to manufacture solar kits at Thiès (Sénégal).

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Africa / Investment in renewable energy

Investment in renewable energy in Africa is at an “alarming” level despite the continent’s enormous potential, according to a report by the consulting firm BloombergNEF (Le Monde – 10/11/2022).

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Ghana - Project "One District - One Factory" (1D1F)

125 factories have already broken ground under the One District – One Factory (1D1F)

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Electric minibuses - South-Africa

GoMetro, MiX Telematics, HSW, ACDC Dynamics are working to deploy electric minibuses in the Stellenbosch Municipality (Western Cape Province) by January 2023.

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Freight rates (Drewry)

The World Container Index (Drewry) reached 5379 on 14/09/2022.

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Mali-Assembly plant for computers and tablet computers.

Danew Talla Electronics, a joint venture formed by Danew (France) and Talla télécom (Mali), is planning an assembly plant for computers and tablet computers. Production to begin by September 2022.

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Algeria - Solar panels production

The company Zergoun Green Energy starts up a solar panel production plant, at Ouargla. Production capacity: 180 MW of solar panels/year. A similar installation is under construction by the Algerian company Milltech (100 MW of solar module production capacity).

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Morocco-Port of Tanger Med

In the 2022 edition of the World Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) published by the World Bank, the port of Tangier-Med ranks sixth in the world.

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Cameroon - Logistic Platform

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Cameroon inaugurates “Kribi Logistics Hub”, multimodal platform offers logistics services to support the economic growth of countries in the sub-region.
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Egypt - Electric Vehicle

Stellantis will build in Egypt an electric vehicle manufacturing plant.

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Nigeria - Electric buses

Partnership between Oando Clean Energy Limited (Ocel) and the Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (Lamata) to introduce electric buses in the economic capital. Eventually, the agreement will enable the development of electric mobility in several urban areas such as Kano and Enugu.

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Africa - Ports

Container Port Performance Index: The port of Tangier-Med ranks sixth in the world.

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Egypt - Electric equipment manufacturing

Egypt: Elsewedy Electric will build a center for electric motors at the request of Chinese manufacturer Wolong Electric, and a medium-voltage coil insulation system to improve the quality of electrical products (Zawya / Elsewedy – 29/04/2022).

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Morocco - Healthcare sector

Partnership agreements were signed linking Banque Populaire to the Moroccan Medical & Biomedical Industries Cluster, and the Banque Populaire with the Moroccan Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry and Innovation.

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Nigeria - Solar-powered electric buses

Entrepreneur Mustapha Gajibo will produce solar-powered electric buses starting in June 2022, with unit capacity of 12 seats.

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Kenya - Textile

In Kenya, commissioning of a new textile factory by the company MAS Intimates.

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Zambia / DRC - Lithium

MoU between Zambia and the DRC to create a joint value chain for the manufacturing of cathode precursor materials for lithium-ion batteries for electric cars.

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Sub-saharan Africa - Mini grids

The Observatory’s case study entitled “Promoting a third generation mini-grid design/manufacturing industry in Sub-Saharan Africa” is now online (April 2022).

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Democratic Republic of Congo - Plastic recycling plant

The OK Plast company put into service a plastic recycling plant at Kinshasa. Investment: 15 million euros. This is the second OK Plast plant of this type in Africa after the one in Nigeria. Capacity: 50 tons per day.

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Egypt - Car parts manufacturing

Egypt: Yazaki Europe Ltd (Japan) plans to build a plant producing braided wires and cables for automobiles.

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South-Africa - Metallurgy

New zinc smelter in South-Africa – 300,000 t/y of high-grade zinc (Mining Weekly – 03/21/2022).

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