Miller Magazine Issue: 141 September 2021

98 Country Profile MILLER / september 2021 As the above numbers show, the milling industry in Egypt is enormous and growing rapidly year by year, and despite the big competition in the Egyptian market, it is one of the promising markets in the middle East in terms of consumption and growth due to many reasons such as location and quick population growth. Egypt’s demand for wheat flour is very high therefore, Al-Hazaa Investment Group took this opportunity and invested in the Egyptian market through establishing Al-Taj Flour Mills, the Group’s largest milling facility and acquiring the Egyptian Millers Flour Mill in 2021. Al-Taj Mill was first established in 2005 with a produc- tion capacity of 640 tons/ day, then the Group decided to expand this facility in 2016 and increased its production capacity to reach 1280 MT/ day through building a totally new mill in the same industrial area in 6th of October City, the new mill holds the same name and is called Al- Taj Mill 2. Today Al-Taj Mills hold 2.5% of Egyptian market share in the flour production field. The Egyptian Millers Flour Mill was established in 1997, Al-Hazaa Investment Group acquired it in the beginning of 2021 to expand its production capacity in Egypt to reach 1,780 tons per day. For our milling facilities, we have a strategic partner- ship with Bühler Group, all flour mills owned by Al-Haz- aa, are equipped with the latest Buhler machines, our mills are fully automatic, from the first step of receiving the grain until producing the final product. We invest in training of our personnel, through Buhler we train our employees and make sure to follow the latest milling trends, Al-Hazaa workers are trained in the Buhler’s training center in Uzwil, Switzerland and in Swiss Milling Schools. Moreover, we send trainees from our compa- nies every year to take courses in the African Milling School in Kenya, eversince its establishment. We have been working with Buhler for so long and we are really satisfied with this partnership, Al-Hazaa Group is the agent of Buhler in the Iraqi market. Buhler provides innovative milling solutions that ensure the safety and quality of the grain while maintaining high sustainability and efficiency. Working with Buhler has allowed us to gain even more experience in the mill- ing field, we always try new innovative Buhler machines that offer various advantages to our mills. As a leading group, Al-Hazaa always ensures to build upscale mills that match the highest international standards in the milling field, not only for machines but also for its silos, laboratory and quality assurance equipment and so on.