General aspects and activities of the Industrial Sector:-

The industrial sector is composed of the following sub sectors:-

1. Food Industries
2. Spinning And Textile Industries
3. Leather Industries
4. Chemical And Pharmaceutical Industries
5. Oil And Soap Industries
6. Engineering Industries
7. Building materials and refractories
8. Printing and packing

The following is a brief of the above sub sectors:-

1/ Food industries sub -sector:-

This is a principal sector in the country considering its necessity and it's linkages with the agricultural sector which represents the backbone of the Sudanese economy.

Available capacities are very high and can supply the requirements of the local market with surplus for export.

2/ Leather Industries sub- sector:-

Leather can be considered as one of the important economic sub- sector oriented for export. Animal wealth of the country is estimated at 125 million heads of cattle, sheep, goats, camels,…etc. The raw hides and skins are distinguished by hard fibers and consistent texture.

The available infrastructure is composed of about 20 tanneries (large, intermediate and small) having design capacity of about 15 million pieces of sheep and goat and about 3 million pieces of cattle hides.

The sector is also distinguished by high install capacity for production of leather products and in particular leather shoes to about 17 million pairs of leather shoes.

3/ Oil and Soap Industries sub- sectors:-

1.      Soap Industry :-

Soap industry is distinguished by high range of manufacturing capacities estimated at 520 thousand tons washing soap, 40 thousand tons powder, 20  thousand tons toilet soap which can supply all the demands of the country and also and there is surplus for export.

     2. Oil Industry:-

Installed capacity of is estimated at about 3 million tons and can deal with cotton, seeds, sunflowers, sesame and beanuts and groundnuts,…etc

4/ Building Materials:-

This sub-sector distinguished by the abundant of its raw materials. Natural marble is available in abundant and granite with capacity of 9 square meters yards also available in the country.

Portland cement is manufactured in 2 factories with low capacities a many to 400 thousand tons a year, where is the market requirements go to more than one million tons per annum.

5/ Textile Industries sub sector:-

Considering the availability of raw materials (cotton) textile industry has emerged in the country. The total capacities of spinning 59 thousand tons, textile 300 thousand tons million yards and 21 million pieces of ready made clothes.

6/ Engineering industries:-

It represents an important sub-sector in the economy and included basic industry. Such as foundries, spare parts,  refractories, metal products and Zink sheets.  

. The installed capacity of this sector is estimated totally at 250 thousands tons a year.

In addition, there is a factory for cars manufacturing, tractors and agricultural equipments.

7/ Chemical and pharmaceutical Industrial Sector:-

Chemical is a large sector and include a number of important products such as tyres, batteries, matches, plastics, pharmaceuticals and medical gases and paints ..etc.

8/ Printing and packing sector:-

This sector that feed other sectors with their requirements of packing materials.

Source: Ministry of Industry