The <a style="color: #993300;" href="https://mim.gov.The Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources53 new industrial licenses during April 2023, distributed among seven industrial activities, led by the manufacture of food products with 9 licenses, followed by the manufacture of fabricated metal products and other non-metallic mineral products with 8 licenses each, while the manufacture of base metals, paper and paper products, rubber and plastics products, and water collection, treatment and delivery recorded 4 licenses each.
Total number of industrial licenses
<The report issued by the Ministry's National Industrial and Mining Information Center showed that the total number of التراخيص industrial licenses The number of licenses issued by the Ministry since the beginning of this year until the end of April amounted to 385 licenses, while the number of existing and under construction factories in the Kingdom as of the end of the same month reached 10,873 factories, with an investment volume of 1.440 trillion riyals.<According to the report, the volume of investments in new licenses for the month of April amounted to 5.8 billion riyals, and small enterprises accounted for most of the new industrial licenses during the same month with .34, followed by medium enterprises with 5.66%, while national factories recorded the largest percentage of the total licenses issued by type of investment with 66.04%, followed by foreign enterprises with 11.32%, and co-investment enterprises with 22.64%.
The report of the National Center for Industrial and Mining Information showed that the factories that started production during last April amounted to 14 factories, with an investment volume of 155 million riyals, led by rubber and plastics factories with 4 factories, followed by 2 factories each for the paper industry, non-metallic minerals, wood, and fabricated metal factories.
<National factories accounted for 85.711 TP3T, followed by joint ventures and foreign-invested factories with 7.141 TP3T. It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources, through the National Center for Industrial and Mining Information, issues on a monthly basis the most important industrial indicators that clarify the nature of the movement of industrial activity in the Kingdom, in addition to revealing the size of the change witnessed by the sector in new industrial investments and factories that started production.
14 factories started production

