28-May-2019

Statistics and figures of Jordan Industrial Cities Company
show that there are more than ten industrial companies operating in El Hassan
Industrial City in the field of pesticides, veterinary medicines and
agricultural fertilizers.
The total investments amount
to approximately JD 36 million while providing 400 jobs in various professions
and jobs It exports high quality products to various international markets.
Al Hassan Industrial City was a platform for the start of Jordanian companies
working in the field of pesticides, veterinary medicines and Jordanian
agricultural fertilizers, which have made their way to the world through
quality and conformity to international standards in the entry of various
local, Arab and international markets.
Al-Hassan Industrial City in Riyadh attracts Jordanian manpower in various
fields of medical, veterinary, engineering, agricultural, chemical, etc., as
well as the training and rehabilitation opportunities provided by the labs of
these factories and companies to students of Jordanian universities near
Al-Hassan Industrial City.
Engineer Mohammed Aweys is an investor in this field. His company MEPEDCO is
one of the largest companies working in this field in the city with a capital
of about 20 million dinars and includes half of the workers working in this
field. The veterinary industry is comparable to the human medicine industry.
Approximately 1000 workers.
Awaid said that the success achieved by MEPEDCO was reflected in the new job
opportunities in this field, which were found by qualified Jordanian youth in
various medical and agricultural specialties, as well as training and
qualification opportunities in the company's laboratories, which are the latest
in this field. Today, MEPEDCO is a Jordanian success story that has reached 40
countries around the world and is able to keep abreast of developments and
developments in the agrochemical industry and public health pesticides.
Aweys pays tribute to the Jordanian investment environment, especially in Al
Hassan Industrial City, which enabled MEPEDCO to launch into the world, such as
exemptions and incentives, which formed a kind of support to start from a young
company to the opening of new branches and production lines within the city.
Today it has a factory in Saudi Arabia and another in Syria.
Like other industrialists, Aweys calls for more support to industrialists in
the current circumstances to maintain the existing industries in general and
the industry of veterinary medicines and fertilizers in general, pointing out
that the increase in production costs affected the competition in addition to
reviewing the international conventions that the private sector did not achieve
any benefit In addition to protecting the Jordanian product and intensifying
control efforts.
On the other hand, Aweys calls for helping industrial companies to achieve
integration among industrial companies by exchanging raw materials in addition
to increasing the period granted in annual licenses and informing the official
authorities of these procedures such as customs, agriculture and others. It
is worth mentioning that the number of industrial companies operating in Al
Hassan Industrial City in various industrial fields reached 1508 industrial
companies at the end of last year, Thousand jobs.
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