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HEAD OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT & CABLES DIVISION AT THE CHAMBER
OF ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES TO POWER MAGAZINE:

INDUSTRY FACES MANY
OBSTACLES AMID FIERCE GLOBAL
COMPETITION

Head of the Electrical Equipment & Cables Division at the Chamber of Engineering Industries,
Eng. Atef Abdel Moneim, has revealed that industry in general and the manufacture of electrical
equipment and cables in particular face many obstacles amid a fierce global competition.
Speaking to the POWER MAGAZINE, he said the burdens placed on industry and manufacturers
are meant to limit their competitiveness internationally and locally. This is reflected in the
increase in imports and the manufacturers’ tendency towards assembly instead of full
manufacturing.

■ Fathi al-Sayeh

“These burdens include taxes Tax is an example, as factories are Abdel Moneim sees that the
which reflect a state of confusion required to pay 5% to some parties solution to this problem can be
in many decisions,” he said, adding and 14% to others,” he said. through the collection of a fixed
that manufacturers have been rate from all customers and the
suffering for more than a year and “Factories are also required to Tax Authority should refund any
a half. pay interest rates, in addition to tax differences, if any, to those
any mistakes in collection resulting who it wants to reduce their tax or
“There is no transparency in tax from the lack of clarity of the tax exempt them.
accounting, and the Value Added law,” he added.

He also noted that the rise in bank THE TREND IS issue
interest rates for industrial loans is NOW GOING
one of the main reasons for the TOWARDS 3
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other countries, whose interest INSTEAD OF SEP
rates do not exceed 4%, compared MANUFACTURING, 2019
to 20% in Egypt. ROAD CHARGES 55
INCREASED,
The obstacles also include road TRADERS HIDE encourage industry.
charges, he said, arguing that UNDER THE CLOAK Abdel Moneim criticised the
production supplies should be OF INDUSTRY, THE
exempted from these charges. GOVERNMENT HAS government for “not supporting
BECOME A the industry and industrialists”.
Abdel Moneim lamented the COMPETITOR IN Rather, he said, the government
fact that local products are not ASSEMBLY has become a competitor in
preferred in the Egyptian market INDUSTRIES assembly industries through public
and not backed globally. He HIGH INTEREST companies and competes with the
said the solution to this issue RATES LIMIT existing factories.
is the implementation of Law GLOBAL
No. 5 of 2015, which gives local COMPETITION He urged the government to
manufacturers that use 15% of local invest in the establishment of raw
material preferential privileges products. material industries in order to limit
versus international prices. He explaining that sometimes imports and provide the existing
factories with local raw materials,
He pointed out that some the proportion of local component thus saving millions of dollars.
government agencies apply this is reduced due to the burden
law, but many others don’t. He said imposed on local manufacturing or He further noted that Egyptian
the government should encourage the unavailability of raw materials.
Egyptian exports through the He proposed that relevant
Export Development Authority legislation should be amended to
and should also clinch deals with
African countries to facilitate the
flow of our exports to them in light
of the scarcity of hard currency.

Egyptian exporters are not able
to obtain the value of exports to
African countries due to the lack of
hard currency, he said.

This problem persists even
in the presence of the African
Development Bank, as it does
not solve the problems of some
countries such as Ethiopia which
does not have foreign currency.

Abdel Moneim called for clinching
deals between countries in order
to facilitate dealings between
exporters and importers.

He pointed out a problem that
looms in the horizon, which is the
confusion between industry and
trade, and the fact that traders
hide under the cloak of industry
to benefit from the little privileges
granted to manufacturers.

He stressed the need for the
Industrial Development Authority
to determine the work of each
factory as well as the value added
based on the industrial processes
conducted in it and not only on the
proportion of local material used in

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56 interest rates, which amount to
20%, explaining that these rates
hinder and limit the competition
with other countries such as
Saudi Arabia, which borrows at
an interest rate less than 4% per
annum. In Europe, the interest rate
does not exceed 2%, he said. So,
if we want to compete globally,
these rates must stop, he urged.
He called for activating the
decision which stipulates that
contracts of integrated work and
procurement in international
bidding should include local
components not less than 40%,
except for civil works.
He pointed out that contract
awarding should be done through
tenders in order to allow the
participation of a large number of
factories rather than specific ones.
Abdel Moneim said the industrial
sector is suffering from the scarcity
of trained technical personnel
and the lack of competencies. He
noted that the government and
the education ministry had started
initiatives in cooperation with
the industrial sector to solve this
problem.
He pointed out that Egytrafo
Group had signed a protocol with
the education ministry to establish
Badr School for Mechatronics. The
school specializes in the electronic
and mechanical fields and technical and qualify highly competent
education and training. Located students. The teaching staff
in Badr Industrial City, it applies a includes experienced cadres from
3-year study system to graduate the ministry and others appointed
by the Group. All teachers are
EGYTRAFO GROUP, THE DIVISION SENT granted incentives and bonuses
IN COOPERATION AN URGENT NOTE for their efforts to achieve the best
WITH THE TO THE ASSISTANT results.
MINISTRY OF MINISTER OF
EDUCATION, INDUSTRY TO TAKE Abdel Moneim said the Group
ESTABLISHED A ACTION produces electric transformers and
VOCATIONAL batteries and supply them to the
EDUCATION AND ministry of electricity and energy.
TRAINING SCHOOL It used to export about 25% of its
IN BADR products to global markets. We
INDUSTRIAL CITY hope that the burden on industry
will be lifted so that the markets
can be restored again.

He said the Electrical Equipment
and Cables Division had sent a
note of all these problems to the
assistant minister of industry to
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IN LED TECHNOLOGY

We can say that solid state lighting (SSL) is the next step in lighting technologies that rely on the
use of semiconductors, just like the light-emitting diode (LED) technology which is more energy-
efficient than other traditional bulbs – like halogen bulbs.
Boon Ooi, a professor of electrical engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology (KAUST) has said that LED “is now moving to the next stage, which is using
semiconductor lasers to generate white-colored light for lighting applications”.

■ POWER MAGAZINE, sources

“In comparison to LEDs, laser diodes Aramco wanted to send video said. “The laser light they use allows issue
are brighter and have much higher signals in real time from mini you to see beyond 600 meters,
power efficiencies with comparable submarines on the seafloor carrying which is very important especially 3
cost to LEDs,” he added. out seafloor analyses up to a boat. in rural areas. With laser lights we’re
developing, we hope to be able to SEP
“For laser-based SSL, you save up Professor Ooi sees that laser-based view a kilometer,” he added. 2019
to 80 percent of energy compared to VLC allows signals to be sent from
incandescent lighting, for example,” the seafloor directly to a boat above Other applications 63
Ooi said. in real time and also opens up many Another application of laser-based
different opportunities. For example, VLC in car headlamps and back lamps
KAUST researchers headed by Ooi oil companies can use this system to is using the light communication
had earlier signed an agreement with monitor their underwater pipelines. to “talk” to other cars or even to
Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura from streetlights on the roadways.
the University of California, Santa “Oil companies require constant “This kind of communication is ideal
Barbara (UCSB) to work together on monitoring of their underwater for safety issues—for example, if a car
SSL. pipelines for corrosion and accidents has an accident, it can communicate
like leaks that could cause an with the cars in front of and behind
Nakamura and his team are environmental catastrophe,” Ooi it to inform them of the situation.
currently developing the laser said. “The companies presently use As cars use more computer-based
material structures out of high- divers to inspect the pipelines, but control systems, the headlamps and
quality gallium nitride (GaN) and its this is difficult to carry out over the the back lamps can integrate with
related materials according to the entire pipeline network. Sending these systems, controlling the car to
KAUST scientists’ design. a robot that could constantly slow it down or communicate with
scan the pipelines and send streetlights and other infrastructures
“At KAUST labs, we apply information up through underwater to alert the police of any accidents,”
nanofabrication techniques to communications would be ideal,” he Ooi explained.
the laser wafer grown at UCSB to added. The future of VLC
convert it into high performance Ooi and his team are now moving
semiconductor laser devices,” Ooi Innovation and entrepreneurship into new developments, which
explained. Ooi’s research team established include the use of ultraviolet (UV)
a startup company called Sanoor, light to generate white light.
Li-Fi technology meaning “Saudi light”—”noor” is “Reliable UV semiconductor lasers
There are differences between the Arabic word for light—at KAUST. do not yet exist, so the first thing
the Li-Fi and SSL technologies, as Sanoor’s focus area is the niche we will work on is producing UV
the current type of visible light application of laser-based VLC in semiconductor lasers. This will open
communications (VLC) system is outdoor high-power lighting and in up even broader applications,” Ooi
based on Li-Fi, which uses the visible car headlamps. said.
light from LEDs to transfer data in “Most luxury cars use LED lighting “We want to become the leader in
the form of the bulb’s ultra-rapid for their headlamps, but laser this particular field,” he added.
flickering. headlamps have begun to be
In contrast, the widely used Wi-Fi introduced by Audi and BMW,” Ooi
system uses radio waves to transmit
data.
Ooi and his team are currently
investigating the use of
semiconductors made from indium
gallium nitride (InGaN) and GaN for
VLC, and they demonstrated that this
system can be more than 20 times
faster than the LED Li-Fi.
“LEDs can generate white colored
light and we use them for energy-
efficient lamps, but with lasers, we
save more energy and we send data
even faster,” Ooi said.
Underwater communications
Ooi and his team, in collaboration
with KAUST Professor Mohamed
Salim Al-Olwini’s research group,
decided to take their new technology
a step further and employ it in
underwater communications, a
problem that came to them from
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THE GUARDIAN :

EXPERTS CALL FOR BAN ON
GLASS SKYSCRAPERS TO SAVE

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2019 are too difficult and expensive to cool ‘ as The British newspaper The Guardian reported
“If you’re building a greenhouse in a climate emergency, it’s a pretty odd thing to do to say the
68 least,” said Simon Sturgis, an adviser to the government and the Greater London Authority, as

well as chairman of the Royal Institute of British Architects sustainability group. “If you’re using
standard glass facades you need a lot of energy to cool them down, and using a lot of energy
equates to a lot of carbon emissions.”

The newspaper added that: Glass- city skyline, let in lots of natural breaking heatwave last week, will issue
fronted offices, from high- profile light and provide great views for have become apparent to many
buildings like the Shard to shopping those inside. But the sunlight also working inside them. 3
centres and industrial parks, In brings heat, and in sealed buildings
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architects and their clients because to naturally – something which, conditioning has been the standard 2019
they create an arresting view in a as Britain sweltered in a record- solution. But that is problematic
in itself. The International Energy 69
Agency estimates that about 40%
of global carbon dioxide emissions
come from constructing, heating,
cooling and demolishing buildings.
Air conditioning is a growing
proportion of this: energy used on
cooling has doubled since 2000 and
accounts for about 14% of all energy
use now.

In April the mayor of New York,
Bill de Blasio, said he would ban all-
glass buildings and force developers
to retrofit existing buildings to
make them more energy-efficient,
although the “ban” was later clarified
to mean excessive use of glass and
steel.

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London,
has ruled out such a plan for the
British capital, but Sturgis believes
the American is on the right lines.
“Certainly, I think there should be
a ban,” he added. “The connection
needs to be made between the
climate emergency and all-glass
buildings. But the connection hasn’t
been made yett.”

Martin Fahey, head of sustainability
at Mitsubishi Electric, warned that
higher temperatures meant that air
conditioning machines now needed
to work harder than in the past.
“Most air conditioning equipment
is designed to give an internal
temperature between seven to 10
degrees lower than the ambient
temperature,” he said. “I suppose
it’s fair to say if that machine is
getting old or has developed a fault
somehow, Murphy’s law being what
it is, something will go wrong and it
will fail.”

The new version of the London
Plan, the rules for all development
in Greater London, which is due to
take effect next spring, will require
construction firms to make an
assessment of a building’s energy
use across its whole life-cycle. Sturgis
hopes that investors will react more
quickly.

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SEP like standing up in front of their Simon Wyatt, a partner at Cundall, to reduce heat gain, and openable
2019 shareholders and saying they’re an engineering firm, and a UK windows.
doing embarrassing things,” he said. Green Building Council committee
70 “No one wants to be treated as ‘Mr member. He said natural ventilation But these laminated glass panels
would save “up to 60 to 70% on still contribute to the climate crisis,
Climate-Dirty building’ and I think our air conditioning loads” but in according to Sturgis, because they
this is going to start happening. city centres, air pollution and traffic are much more expensive to make
“I’m advising a bank that wants to noise make this impossible. and almost impossible to recycle.
build a very big building in London
– which I can’t tell you about, but I’m Newer buildings use special types “To mitigate the amount of energy
having this exact conversation – I of glass that can become more used to cool these buildings, you
think the building could be obsolete opaque to block sunshine in hot have to produce a really complicated
by the time it’s finished.” weather, or even generate electricity façade, which is usually triple glazed,”
Glass has some advantages: in themselves, such as the Edge he said. “But double glazed units and
colder weather, the warming effect building in Amsterdam. It uses about laminated glass don’t last very long –
of sunshine – “solar heat gain” in 70% less energy than most buildings 40 years or so. So you have to replace
the jargon – means less energy on but is not glass-fronted on all sides your facade every 40 years, that’s
heating. Architects can still use this – the southern, eastern and western also not a very good idea.”
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■ Agencies for birds and worms. one of the biggest producers
And he continued asking, of fossil fuels all over the
In a statement he presented world, is getting slower in
during a conference of “How many birds die?” and comparison to other countries
electrical energy sector he also added insuring his in the field of improving
took place in the Russian words, “Wind turbines cause renewable energy resources
city, Yekaterinburg, in the vibrations what makes worms like solar energy and wind
second week of last July. The move out of the soil... “That’s energy which is rarely used in
Russian president, Vladimir not a joke.” He said. generating electricity.
Putin, announced,” Producing
electricity using wind is a good Putin claimed that people Enel company has pledged
thing but are birds considered wouldn’t like to live in“Morkot” to invest 90 million euros
in this case?!” adding that with lines of wind electrical recently to build a facility for
wind turbines are dangerous generators which coated with generating electricity with 71
several layers of solar panels. megawatt power by 2024.

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AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER CALENDAR This year, 2019, there are many
international energy conferences,
Mon, 29 Jul - Thu, 01 Aug 2019 distributed throughout the year, and in
joe different parts of the world, we choose
JOENERGY the most important conferences, and we
Amman, Jordan present them to you as follow:

JOENERGY event will cover areas like Manufacturing Thu, 01 - Sat, 03 Aug 2019
photovoltaic cells, wind turbines and PV investors to pow
market locally and regionally, Participating in turnkey Powerex Myanmar and Electric Expo Myanmar
projects in wind and solar energy farms... 5th edition
Yangon, Myanmar
Electric & Electronics Power & Energy
Thu, 01 - Sat, 03 Aug 2019 Powerex Myanmar and Electric Expo Myanmar is the
Electric Myanmar only specialized Power, Power Generation and Power
Yangon, Myanmar Transmission Equipment, Technologies & Supplies
in Myanmar that brings together an international
Myanmar’s Only International Electric and Power congregation...
Technology Exhibition
Electric & Electronics Power & Energy
Electric & Electronics Power & Energy Thu, 01 - Sat, 03 Aug 2019
Solar Plus Expo & Conference
Taleigao, India

Bringing together Solar & Related sectors
Power & Energy

Fri, 02 - Sun, 04 Aug 2019 Thu, 08 - Fri, 09 Aug 2019
sol ros
Solar South (SolarSouth 5th Edition( Roseland South Texas Oil and Gas Convention (Oil
Chennai, India and Gas Trade Show)
2nd edition
India’s Leading SOLAR Industry San Antonio, USA
Power & Energy Solar Energy
Wed, 07 - Thu, 08 Aug 2019 Where you are more than simply square footage on a
Sustainable Fleet Technology Conference & Expo trade show floor!!
(SFTCE(
Durham, USA Power & Energy Petroleum, Oil & Gas Paid entry
Power & Energy IT & Technology

Thu, 08 - Sat, 10 Aug 2019 Guangzhou, China issue
International Exhibition of modern Gorod.Energy Guangzhou International Air Improving Fair
Resource Ecology Power & Energy Home & Office 3
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distribution of electricity, Power, electrical and 73
lighting equipment, Electroadjusting products,
electrotechnical... Fri, 16 - Sun, 18 Aug 2019
asi
Electric & Electronics Industrial Products Power & Asia Battery Sourcing Fair&Summit (GBF ASIA(
Energy 4th edition
Sat, 10 - Mon, 12 Aug 2019 Guangzhou, China
pow
Power Asia A professional demonstration and trade platform of
New Delhi, India the battery & energy storage industry in China

Energising Power Industry Electric & Electronics Power & Energy Automation &
Electric & Electronics Power & Energy Robotics
Tue, 13 - Thu, 15 Aug 2019
Indonesia International Geothermal Convention 1 more event happening alongside
& Exhibition Fri, 16 - Sun, 18 Aug 2019
Jakarta, Indonesia asi
The growing interest in geothermal energy, its Asia-Pacific Water Heating Exhibition (AWHE)
importance in future energy supply, and the need to Guangzhou, China
accelerate it’s development make it very compelling to
host a comprehensive industry forum which promotes... Guangdong Grandeur International Exhibition Group
Power & Energy Environment & Waste Power & Energy
Fri, 16 - Sun, 18 Aug 2019
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 gua
Durban Petrochemical & Renewables Roadshow Guangzhou Int’l Motor and Energy-saving Tech-
Amanzimtoti, South Africa nology Expo (MES)
Guangzhou, China
Visitor Entry is Free of Charge. The African Petrochemical One of few professional exhibitions on motors focusing
Roadshow offers a diagonal slice of the industry, on energy-saving technology in China
showcasing and highlighting multiple products, Electric & Electronics Power & Energy
services and expertise available to the Petrochemical... Wed, 21 Aug 2019
Industrial Energy Show Pune (IES)
Wellness, Health & Fitness Power & Energy Pune, India
Fri, 16 - Sun, 18 Aug 2019 Industrial Energy Show Pune focuses on powering
gua Indian manufacturing industries on a cleaner, efficient &
Guangzhou International Solar Photovoltaic smarter energy track. It provides the opportunity to the
Exhibition attendees Unparalleled Networking Opportunities,...
11th edition Power & Energy
Guangzhou, China Tue, 20 - Thu, 22 Aug 2019
ene
International Exhibition for Solar PV Industry Energy Exchange
Power & Energy 4th edition
2 more events happening alongside Denver, USA
Fri, 16 - Sun, 18 Aug 2019 Be Efficient And Resilient
gua Environment & Waste Power & Energy Paid entry
Guangzhou International Air-condition, Ventila-
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2019 Wed, 21 - Thu, 22 Aug 2019 East cooling and heating and construction equipment
74 bru Fair will be held in conjunction with the government’s 1
million Green Home Supply Industry, including heating
Brunei Oil & Gas Expo and cooling equipment, renewable energy,...
Seria, Brunei
Brunei Oil & Gas Expo is the only specialized oil Industrial Engineering Power & Energy
Cambodia International Lighting Exhibition (CILE)
& gas technology event in Brunei that brings together an Phnom Penh, Cambodia
international congregation of both upstream and downstream
oil and gas companies and also its... International footwear & leather machinery & material
industry exhibition in Cambodia.
Renewable Energy Power & Energy
Wed, 21 - Fri, 23 Aug 2019 Electric & Electronics Power & Energy
wor Mon, 26 - Wed, 28 Aug 2019
World Renewable Energy Technology Congress & Rocky Mountain Energy Summit Expo (The Ener-
Expo (WRETC & Expo) gy Summit)
10th edition Denver, USA
New Delhi, India
Power & Energy
Exhibition for energy security and sustainable 1 more event happening alongside
development Wed, 28 Aug 2019
per
Renewable Energy Environment & Waste Power & Peruvian Agenda for the Energy Transition
Energy Solar Energy Santiago de Surco, Peru
Wed, 21 - Fri, 23 Aug 2019 Peruvian Agenda for the Energy Transition is the space
oil where the top executives and leaders of the sector
Oil & Gas Tech Asia (OGTA) exchange ideas, define our agenda and make decisions.
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam These internal imbalances are deepened much...
Renewable Energy Power & Energy
One-stop event for the Oil & Gas Industry in Vietnam 1 more event happening alongside
Business Services Power & Energy Mon, 26 - Thu, 29 Aug 2019
sae
Wed, 21 - Fri, 23 Aug 2019 Sae International Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants
China International Offshore Oil & Gas Exhibition Meeting & Exhibit
Shanghai (Ciooe Shanghai) Kyoto, Japan
Shanghai, China Sae International Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants
Meeting & Exhibit provides an international climate
China International Offshore Oil & Gas Exhibition change framework that, over the long term, aims to
Shanghai is the place where world famous enterprises hold the increase in global average temperatures...
including Schlumberger, EAGLE Fluid, Banner Power & Energy
Engineering, Inductotherm, Japan Radio Co, M+W,
Tyco,... Tue, 27 - Thu, 29 Aug 2019
wir
Power & Energy Petroleum, Oil & Gas Wire & Cable Show Malaysia (WCS MALAYSIA)
Wed, 21 - Fri, 23 Aug 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Guangzhou International Lubricants And Tech-
nology Expo Wire & Cable Show Malaysia brings to the world forum
20th edition products and services from Cables & Wires Industry.
Guangzhou, China Malaysia International cable show is a British CEG group
exhibition sponsored event focussing on...
Power & Energy Petroleum, Oil & Gas IT & Technology
Thu, 22 - Sun, 25 Aug 2019 Electric & Electronics Power & Energy Cables & Wires
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