$297 million exports of Al-Hassan Industrial Estate since beginning of this year

Al-anbat-Farah Mousa

Translated by -Rahaf Thaher

Al-Hassan Industrial Estate’s exports since the beginning of this year 2022 amounted about $297 million, while its exports amounted to $1133 million last year, according to the Director General of Industrial Estates Company, Omar Jwaid .                   

Jwaid said that Al-Hassan Industrial Estate, which was launched in 1991 and today hosts 135 industrial investments volume of approximately 429 million dinars, characterized by the diversity of its investments, of which foreign investments are the most.

He pointed out that the number of industrial companies is (135) companies operating in several industrial fields with an investment volume of approximately 429 million dinars provided nearly 29,000 job opportunities ,meanwhile their exports reached ($1133) million last year , while exports since the beginning of this year 2022 reached about ($297) million .                                                       

Jwaid indicated that the operating companies are distributed according to the industrial sectors as follows: (35) companies operating in the food sector, (31) in the textile sector, (9) in the pharmaceutical industries, (20) in the plastics industries, and (16) in the chemical industries.  While (4) works in the field of printing and packaging, (14) in the engineering field, (5) in the leather industries, (2) in the field of furniture and kitchens, and (1) in the field of construction industries.

He added that investments in Al Hassan Industrial City are distributed among different nationalities, including (83) Jordanian investments, (26) Arab (11) Jordanian-Arab joint, (2) foreign -Jordanian and (12) foreign investments, where their products are exported to various Arab and Asian markets, Europe and America.

He added that investments in Al-Hassan Industrial City are distributed among different nationalities, including (83) Jordanian investments, (26) Arab (11) Jordanian-Arab joint, (2) foreign Jordanians and (12) foreign investments, where their products are exported to various Arab and Asian markets, Europe and America.

 The existing investments in Al-Hassan Industrial Estate have provided approximately (29) thousand jobs in various fields, including nearly (6) thousand Jordanians and about (23) thousand jobs for migrant workers.

The city contributed to promoting development in Irbid governorate and the north of the Kingdom by activating various economic sectors and providing different job opportunities.

Jwaid noted that the challenges and issues related to the industrial sector, cities and industrial development areas in all locations are similar, expressing his hope to come up with a strategy that will overcome all challenges and contribute to simplifying procedures, providing support for investments and enhancing the competitiveness of the Jordanian product in the local markets and abroad in order to achieve the economic, developmental and social goals of cities and development areas.

He pointed out that the city has signed several memorandums of understanding with official universities to network between industrial companies and university graduates in order to provide appropriate training opportunities in industrial companies operating in the city, as well as harnessing the potential of universities in order to support the scientific research process of industrial companies, which include these universities: Technology, Al-Yarmouk, AlBalqa Applied.

He stressed that the city has significant contributions to support the development process in the local community by sponsoring its events and contributing to various activities supporting the work of charities, sports clubs, cultural forums and others.

The expansion is being carried out on an area of 214 acres on the northern borders of the city and that the implementation work on the expansion project started mid-2019 and its cost is estimated at 4 million dinars. It comes after the occupancy of the first three phases of the city, which is witnessing high investment demand in various industrial investment fields, including the development of industrial estates and the implementation of prepared industrial buildings. 

The new expansion is the fourth after the third fully occupied, which was announced and implemented during 2013, with an area of approximately (145) acres and included (25) investment pieces and industrial buildings with a total area of 11.500 square meters distributed over (16) typical factories.

Jwaid expected that the expansion site would witness a high demand for investment, as the project land was divided into approximately (34) industrial pieces that meet the various needs of investors, while the project will contribute to supporting the distinguished process of the city, especially as it obsess for more than 80% of the governorate’s export of Irbid Industrial City, in addition to the job opportunities that the expansion will provide for Jordanian workers, whether in the implementation stages or during the operating stage of the industrial companies that will start their work in it, in conjunction with government efforts aimed at providing job opportunities for the sons and daughters of the Kingdom.

It is reported that Al-Hassan Industrial City, which was established in 1991, is considered the first qualified industrial area in Jordan with a total area of ​​1,178 acres while it is considered the second industrial city established by the Industrial Cities Company in the Kingdom after Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein Industrial City in Sahab, as it is located near the border crossings with Syria and Iraq.