In 2019 UNIDO used its EIP tool for selecting industrial parks to identify the parks with higher potential of becoming an EIP with the support of GEIPP in Egypt.

The Prioritization of pre-selected industrial parks was based on a set of qualitative criteria covering park management, environmental, economic, and social aspects, replicability, and visibility.

The review against these criteria resulted in pre-selection of the following IPs as the parks with higher potential for converting into Eco-Industrial Parks:

• Robbiki Leather Cluster.
• Orascom Industrial Parks – Sokhna Complex (formerly named Suez Industrial Development Company (SIDC)).
• Polaris Parks.

The parks will receive the full package of services, including RECP assessments and industrial symbiosis identification, EIP planning and zoning recommendations, and improvement of managing company capacities.

Robbiki Leather City is located in the suburbs of Cairo in Badr City on a total surface area of 282 acres. The residents of Robbiki Leather City are around 150 SMEs and they are almost exclusively tanneries. Al Robbiki is example of how government developed new industrial park around the relocation of polluting tanneries from city to controlled industrial park.

Orascom Industrial Parks – Sokhna Complex (formerly named Suez Industrial Development Company (SIDC)). SIDC houses around 102 small, medium and large companies. They include large heavy energy intensive international companies such as cement plant, oil refinery, fertilizers, chemicals and petrochemicals.

The key needs for SIDC include the expansion of income generating park management services to the tenants, RECP assessments with the industrial tenant companies, focusing on energy savings, renewable energy, and reducing GHG emissions. Water reuse and solid waste management, including symbiosis opportunities between tenant companies, are being considered by the park management.

Polaris Parks is located in the in the 6the of October Industrial Area on a total surface area of 310 acres. They are private developer and the number of tenants are 130. The park could serve as an EIP model for “private developer” as there is a high number and diversity of industrial activities, including international companies with possibly advanced environmental management systems in place.