Amlak - Follow-ups
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry revealed that the number of productive factories at the end of the first quarter of this year 1435 AH (6599) productive factories with total financing exceeded 948.3 billion riyals, while the number of workers in the factories reached 862,717 workers.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry explained in a recent statistical report published on its website that the Riyadh region topped the list of the number of productive factories in the Kingdom with a total of (2896) factories with a total funding of (110.4) billion riyals, followed by the Eastern region with (1546) productive factories with a total funding of (595.5) billion riyals, then the Mecca region with (1225) productive factories with a total funding of (119.9) billion riyals.
The rest of the factories were distributed among the rest of the Kingdom's regions, and Al-Baha region had the lowest share in terms of the number of factories with about (15) productive factories with total financing amounting to (59) million riyals.
The statistic showed that the factories of other non-metallic mineral products topped the number of productive factories by industrial activities at the end of the first quarter of the current Hijri year 1435 AH with 1325 factories, followed by factories of formed metal products excluding machinery and equipment with about (902) factories, then rubber and plastics products with about (819) productive factories.

She emphasized that the number of the remaining factories was distributed among the rest of the productive activities, and the repair and installation of machinery and equipment factories came as the lowest number of factories in the Kingdom with about (5) productive factories.