Africa needs $170 billion in annual infrastructure investment. This creates massive demand for construction materials including cement, steel, glass,...
Africa consumes 180 million tonnes of cement annually with demand growing at 5-7 percent per year. Dangote Cement and LafargeHolcim dominate productio...
Sub-Saharan Africa's textile and garment industry employs over 500,000 workers but is a fraction of its 1970s scale. Cotton production, market access,...
South African chemicals majors AECI and Omnia are expanding manufacturing and distribution across sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia and Tanzania are develo...
Scrap-fed electric arc furnace mini-mills are proliferating in Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa as local scrap collection networks mature and power su...
Kenya's furniture sector exports to Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and the DRC. South Africa's furniture manufacturers supply SADC and West Africa. The AfC...
Africa manufactured less than 1 percent of its pharmaceutical needs before COVID. Three years on, $3 billion in manufacturing investment is building t...
Africa needs to add 250 gigawatts of generation capacity by 2030. Manufacturing solar panels, wind turbines, transformers, and grid cables locally wou...
Morocco assembles over 700,000 vehicles annually for export to Europe. Kenya and South Africa maintain smaller assembly operations. Local content requ...
Africa's $20 billion packaging industry is growing at 8 percent annually as FMCG brands invest in modern packaging for retail channels. Flexible packa...
Africa produces 7% of the world's cotton but only 1% of its garments. Capturing even a fraction of the $500 billion global textile trade would transfo...
Nigeria's tile and ceramic sector has grown to 120 million sqm annual production capacity, displacing Chinese imports. Egypt's Cleopatra Ceramics is A...
South Africa exports 330,000 vehicles annually worth $8 billion, making it the continent's only significant automotive exporter. AfCFTA creates a 1.4...
Ethiopia attracted Chinese footwear manufacturers to its industrial parks in the mid-2010s, but labour relations problems and Chinese near-shoring hav...
Ghana has positioned itself as West Africa's automotive assembly hub, attracting investment from Volkswagen, Toyota, Sinotruk, and others. The strateg...