Walid Gamal El-Din, chairman of the General Authority for the SCZone, laid the foundation stone on Wednesday at the Sokhna integrated industrial zone, within the TEDA-Egypt developer area. The facility will cover 350,000 square metres and be built in three phases over three years.
The first phase, set to start production in 2026, will manufacture three million passenger car tires and 600,000 truck and bus tires annually, creating 1,500 jobs.
Once fully operational, output is expected to exceed 10 million tires a year, serving Egypt’s domestic market as well as export destinations in the region and beyond.
Gamal El-Din said the project supports Egypt’s National Automotive Industry Localization Strategy and SCZone’s plans to establish integrated industrial clusters, positioning the zone as a regional automotive hub.
Sailun, a global tire manufacturer with plants in China and Vietnam, produces over 26.6 million truck and bus radial (TBR) tires, 88 million passenger car radial (PCR) tires, and approximately 310,000 tons of off-the-road (OTR) tires annually, supplying more than 180 countries.
Chinese investment in Egypt has grown sharply in recent years.
More than 2,800 Chinese firms operate in the market, with total investments exceeding $8 billion, according to the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI).
In the SCZone alone, Chinese commitments have exceeded $4 billion over the past three years as of July 2025, accounting for approximately 40 percent of total zone investment as of May 2024.
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