On a visit to Fes, the Minister of Industry has stated that he would support the leather industrial estate project (50 hectares of industrial estate for leather industrials), as a local extension of the Emergence Plan.

Local authorities will market it and offer investors customs facilities to set up sourcing and export platforms. The government will support 20% of investments beyond 200 million of dirhams (partial financing of land and construction for new projects and extension projects in the textile and leather sector; creation of industrial estate dedicated to tanning).

The leather industrial project has been initiated by the Ministry of Industry, the UNIDO and local leather industrials.

Source: L'Economiste June 12th 2008