Environmental Consulting for Industry

Manufacturers carry the widest range of environmental obligations of any sector in Egypt: permitting and compliance, emissions to air and water, waste and hazardous waste, energy performance, worker and community exposure, and increasingly the carbon content of the product itself. EnviGlobe works across that whole span rather than on one requirement at a time.

When we are engaged in this sector

Environmental approval for a new plant, a production line change or a capacity expansion
Customer and export requirements for product carbon data, including CBAM-covered goods
Energy cost pressure and the need to evidence efficiency improvement rather than assert it
Hazardous and process waste arrangements that must withstand inspection
Lender or parent-company environmental and social requirements attached to investment

What we deliver

Environmental and social impact assessment for new facilities and expansions
Environmental compliance review against Egyptian requirements and applicable lender frameworks
Corporate and product carbon footprint, life-cycle assessment and CBAM data readiness
Energy audits, benchmarking and conservation planning for energy-intensive processes
Waste characterisation, system design and hazardous waste handling arrangements
Air dispersion modelling for stack and process emissions near sensitive receptors

How we approach this work

The common thread across industrial work is evidence. A manufacturer can usually describe what it does; the difficulty is producing records that a regulator, a customer, a verifier or a lender will accept without further argument. Our work is structured so that the same underlying plant data serves compliance, carbon reporting and efficiency planning instead of being rebuilt separately for each.

The Egyptian context for this sector

Egyptian manufacturers operate under Environmental Law 4/1994 and its executive regulations, with waste handled under the dedicated waste management legislation and its regulatory authority. In practice the binding constraint is rarely the text of the law: it is whether the facility can produce records that demonstrate compliance on the day an inspector, a customer auditor or a lender adviser asks. Export-facing manufacturers now face a second layer, because European customers increasingly require product-level carbon data and, for covered goods, verified embedded emissions.

Questions we are asked in this sector

We already have an environmental permit. Why would we need more work?

A permit records that a condition was met at a point in time. Inspections, customer audits, lender reviews and export requirements all test something different: whether the controls described in the permit are operating now and can be evidenced. Most findings we see are not unlawful activity but missing records, uncalibrated monitoring, or arrangements that changed after the permit was issued without the documentation following.

Does carbon reporting actually affect a manufacturer that sells domestically?

Less directly, but it is increasingly transmitted through the supply chain. Domestic customers that export are asked for product carbon data and pass the request upstream to their own suppliers. Organisations that already meter energy by process and track production accurately can answer these requests quickly; those that cannot usually discover the gap when a customer sets a deadline.

Where do efficiency and compliance work overlap?

In the data. Energy consumption drives both cost and reported Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Waste quantities drive both disposal cost and regulatory exposure. Building the measurement once, at the right boundary, serves compliance reporting, carbon disclosure and cost reduction together instead of three separate exercises producing three inconsistent numbers.

Selected projects in this sector

Switch-Med Initiative (MED TEST I and II Project) — Transfer of environmentally sound technology to harness industry contribution to inclusive and sustainable development across 30 companies in Cairo and Alexandria.
Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment Reports for EFACO — Carbon footprint and life cycle assessment reporting to support ISO 14067 readiness and CBAM compliance for EFACO metallurgical products.
Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment Reports for ECWC — Carbon footprint and life cycle assessment for ECWC aluminium products to support ISO 14067 and CBAM compliance.
Environmental and Sustainable Support Services for CTIHC — Environmental and sustainability support for CTIHC restructuring of 21 companies into 10 new textile subsidiaries.
Environmental Support for Egyptian Iron and Steel Land Transformation — Environmental investigations and studies to support transformation of 2,000 acres from industrial to residential use.