Now there are five sugar factories in the country. Their production capacity is 700 /000 tones annually. The Sugar Public Corporation administrates the four public sugar factories:

1. Aljnaid sugar factory production started in 1962 /1963
2. Halfa AL Jadeeda Sugar Factory productions started in 1964 /1965.
3. Sinnar Sugar Factory production started in 1976 /1977.
4. 4/ Asalaya Sugar Factory productions started in 1979 /1980.
5. The capital invested in all these factories is SD110- 480/000/00

The bulk of the investment is $ 670/000/000. The factory includes irrigated sugar cane farms; it has an industrial complex and a refinery. It consumes 1700 tones of sugar cane per day.

The highest production capacity of white sugar during the season is 300/000 tones .In 1999 the production reached 370/000 tones, the factory exports brings 7 million dollars annually to Sudan. It produces, in addition to the white sugar, sugar cubes, cane honey and molas. There is a plan for the production of char coal and fodder of sugar cane stems.

The Sudan is considered one of the qualified countries for the advanced leather products, as it owns a great animal wealth. This industry started long years ago, but it was modernized in 1945 and it reached its highest in the seventies after the establishment of the public tanneries.

Leather products factories were founded with 2650 million pairs of shoes capacity.

The Leather Promotion Center, The Sudanese Chambers of Industries Association and The Research and Industrial consultancy Institute exerted efforts to promote this industry. Efforts were also exerted in collaboration with the UNDP and FAO to improve leather industry and its products.

However, in spite of the foreign aid suspension, the leather industry is witnessing great advancement and publicity that means that this field is a successful one.

A table shows leather products in Sudan 1996 –1997:

The real mergence of the textile industry in Sudan began when was establish Sudanese textile factory in 1962. After that many factories were founded in the different parts of Sudan, now there are nine public factories, and 74 small factories throughout the country.

The medicine industry in Sudan depends on the importation of the raw materials, from abroad and processing and papering the locally. This industry was introduced in Sudan in the sixties when two factories were founded. Now there are more than eleven factories, which produce thirty-five basic drugs product in various pharmatical forms.

Such as (capsules, syrups, injection, antibiotics, pain relieving drugs, rheumatism drugs, diabetes drugs, anti malaria medicine, anti ulcer and anti acidity drugs.).

The government gives great concern to the medicine industries for the importance of medicine in health care and the societies health as basic factor in realizing, social and economic development for man.

So the first priority of the medicine policy is the basic medicines and then export through an encouraging policy for producing medicine competently according the stated health standards , in additions to the enhancement of the local production opening opportunities for investment and cooperation in this field between the public and private sectors.

A table of medicine factories in Sudan

No	Factory	Unit	%
1	Amifarm laboratories	3030	15.23
2	Shifa pharmacist . F	2608	13,11
3	Heumfeet . F	2533	12,73
4	The Sudanese chemical industries	2479	10,34
5	Elee factory	205	10,34
6	Sigmato Sudan LTD	2001	10,06
7	(CIMA)	1410	7,09
8	Balsam medicines company	1243	6,26
9	The medical gas company	1226	6,16
10	Kleemax factory	1132	5,69
11	Pill factory	186	-,90
	For six month	19900

A table of medicine production 1997 /1998

Type	Unit	Design capacity	1996	1997
Pills	Million pills	1750	400	980
Capsules	Million capsules	280	95	110
Powders, Syrup	Million bottles	6,3	3,4	5
Fluids	Million bottles	10	-	5
	Million units	4	1	1
Injections	Million ampoules	30	6	5
Child powder	One tone	1600	-	4
	One tone	-	33,5	36
Oxygen	Cubic meter	-	1830	22530

The oil industry is the oldest industry in the Sudan that it war known in the nineteenth century. This industry relates to the oil seeds production areas Sudan is a main producer of these seeds oil crops. Most important are the following:

Sesame: the important kinds of the sesame are (the ked, the white and the mixed sesame).

The oil panties in these kinds are between 48-52%.

Groundnuts: rarified groundnuts oil percentage is 48% and the irrigated peanuts the oil percentage is 49%.

In the white cottonseed of the (short staple cotton the oil percentage is 17-18%. the oil percentage in black cotton seed of the long staple cotton) is 23-24%.

There are also many oil crops. Sunflower and watermelon seeds are considered the most important ones in oil extraction and export.

After realizing the self-sentiency on oils in the severities, the Sudan has become the most important exporting country of groundnut seeds become it woes the most advanced technology in the world in addition to the qualified manpower. The oil refries in Sudan are 166, their total production capacity is 2,172,225 tones per year, 110 of those refineries work in groundnuts and sesame oil with 2 million tones capacity per year. There are 65 refineries work in cottonseeds oil with a capacity of 909,625 tones per year in addition to other refineries under construction with 544/000 tones capacity per year.

The availability of the oil seeds, power, technology, storage facilities and transportation in Sudan enabled the oil seeds products to be the top of the Sudan exports .In addition to the investment encouragement law which provide great opportunities for a better future in this field.

A table of the industrial products 1997 - 1998

The cement industry in Sudan has been known since 1930 when small factory was established to provide cement to Sinnar Dam project.This was followed by setting up of AtbaraCement Factory in the north in 1947 and RabaK Cement Factory, Central Sudan, in 1956

The factors deemed conducive to the cement industry in Sudan include the availability of high-quality raw materials needed for this industry which are found in the various parts of the country.

Limestone is considered as one of the most important part needed for the manufacture of cement ,besides clay and gypsum .They are found in Sudan in Dardeib ,the Red sea coast ,Sinkat,A tbara ,Berber ,Halfa ,Kapoeta,Rabak, Ed-Damazin , A lsemeih ,and Abbasia in Western Sudan.

The comperhensive National Strategy of Sudan ,covering the period 1992-2002, aims to expand on cement industry ,provide raw materials for it and establish a factory for each state.

The government further works towards bridging the gap in cement production by expanding the present factories ,boosting their production capacity and setting up more lines of production.

Giad industrial City is the biggest industrial complex in Sudan.
The industrial zone is divided in tow sectore Metallic sector and automotive sector .
There are 5 big projects in the metallic sector which are :

1. steel factory & rolling mill.
2. Aluminum plant.
3. Copper plant.
4. Electrical wires & cables plant.
5. Pipes compiex which composes of:
   • Longitudinal welded pipes.
   • Spiral welded pipes.
   • Electrical welded pipes.

Giad is 50 KM south of Khartuom , 2 KMs from the Blue Nile . tow lines of high voitage pass through it , as well as the main railway line.
The highway road ( Khartoum- Portsudan ) separates the Giad industrial City from the residential region Giad town . Giad town is aresidential town for Giad ctaff , there you find 1200 huoses , 3 schools , 2 big shopping centers , one hospital (72 beds ) and many parks and club .

Ameltshop with the capacity of 60.000 ton / heat ladle capacity electric arc furance for producing 100- 130 mm . square billets which are semi finished material for the bar mill.

• A bar mill with capacity of 150.000 ton / year for bar mill and re bar production feom diameter 8 mm to 25 mm
• Angles feom 25*3 to 50*4 mm
• Flats from 16*10 mm .
• Plant capacity production per day 500 ton .
• Total bulit up area 30500 m2
• Labor force 11 engineer 40 tech .
• Total investment cost 38.000.000 US$ .
• Expected date for production March 2000 .

The plant consist of milling & holding furnaces, continuous casting machine, extrusion line, paintung and anodizing line .

The Plant Produces :

1. Aluminum profiles / secions for building ( door & windows )
2. 9.5 mm diameter wire rods ( cables ) .
   • Built area : 6800m2 .
   • Total Investment Cost : USD 9.080.000 .
   • Total Capacity : Annual capacity of the plant about ( 3000 ) ton based or shift operation , 10 hr / shift .
   • Labor Force : General Manger, 3 engineers, 10 technicians , 12 skilled labors , un skilled labors , 2 drivers , 2 storekeepers and clerks .
   • Total power labors 61.
   • Contracting date: 6 / 10 / 1997.
   • Commencing date: March 2000 .
   • Technical Specification:

1. Line for production of 8 mm diameter wire rod :
   • This line produces oxygen free high conductivity copper wire rods . which are used as input material for production of electric wire and cables .
   • The line consists of an upward continuous casting machine with four coilers .
   • Wires produced are according to British standard 4109 C 103 ASTM specifications B1, B2 , B3, C10200 .
   • Dia . of wire- rod produced = 8 mm.
2. Line for production of rods , billets and strips :
   • This line consists of tow melting furnaces , continuous casting machine , in line milling maching and accessories .
   • Total capacity for wach funace approx . 2.5 ton .
   • Melt output = approx 1.5 tons/ hr .

1. copper & copper alloy strips:
   Strip width = 400 mm
   Strip thickness = 14.5 mm .
   Those strips are produced in coils with weight 1- 5 tons .
2. Rods and billets :
   With diameter 30.60 and 100 mm .
   Note :
   • Rods and billets with many different sizes `can be produced by just changing the die on the continuous casting machine .
   • The products of this plant can serve many different sectors e.g. industries, Engineering , civilian needs and other .
3. Rolling mill for copper strips :
   • This line processes the above strips into strips with , thin thickness using cold rolling and finishing process with fully automatic system .
   • Final strip thickness :
     Max . Final thickness = 2.0 mm .
     Min . Final thickness = 0.5 mm .
   • Strips are produced in coils with max coil weigh 4000 Kg

1. Longitudinally welded pipe plant total area : 14400 m2 .
   • Total capacity : 70000 ton / year .
   • Total invesment cost : 32784000 US$ .
   • Pipe size : 20- 48 inch .
2. Spirally welded pipe plant
   • Total : 5550 m2 .
   • Total capacity : 35000 ton / year .
   • Total investment cost : 11567000 US$ .
   • Pipe size : 8- 60 inch .
3. Electical resistance welded pipe plant
   • Total area : 3000 m2 .
   • Total capacity : 35000 ton / year .
   • Total investment cost : 8472000 US$
   • Construction started : Nov 1997
   • Productio start : June 2000 .
   • Electrical Cables & Wires Piant :

• 1000 km . of Aluminum cables and conductors .
• 1500 km . of copper wires and cables .
• 5000 km of communication cables. ( See the targeted capacity tables) .
• Investment facilities operating cost re depicted under financial analysis .

• Stranded single core copper conductor size : ( 10 mm2- 500mm2) .
• Building copper wire single & tow stranded , size ( 1.5 mm2 -240mm2 ) .
• PVC & XLPE Copper multicore size :( 0.5mm2- 24mm2 ).
• PVC & XLPE Copper from tow to nine cores cable size :( 1 mm 2- 2.5 mm2 ) .
• PVC & XPE Copper single core conductor size ( 0.75 mm2- 240mm2 ) .
• Telephone cables . ( 2 pair - 200 pair ) .
• Total investment cost is $ 6.2 million .