Suez manufacturing base, Egypt

At the Egypt base, the first line undergoing cold repair completed the work and returned to production ahead of schedule in 2024. Management reports that the line maintained full production and sales. It also describes investigating and comparing potential further overseas investments, but the cited passage does not select a new country or commit to a new overseas plant. This separates the reported restart of an existing line from exploratory work on additional international expansion.

The Egyptian base shifted its focus from engineering construction to stable operation, with management reporting progress in efficiency, costs, supporting services and local management. The base was used in the group's overseas-to-overseas production-and-sales scheduling. This is a change in the role of an existing manufacturing site, not a new line commissioning event or a quantified saving attributable to one support project.

Supporting projects at the Egyptian base were successively completed and put into operation, and the 200,000-tonne manufacturing base was declared fully built. This base-wide disclosure follows the separately tracked 80,000-tonne, 80,000-tonne and 40,000-tonne phases. The annual passage describes completion of the base and its supporting assets, rather than another independent 200,000-tonne addition to be counted on top of those lines.