The Sothema and Novonordisk Laboratories have been at loggerheads since the implementation of the anti-dumping shield in 2012. The Danish manufacturer has been subject to a customs duty of 13.89%, to align with the prices practiced in Morocco.
An olive oil production plant will soon be built in the Fès-Meknès region. This is an ambitious project of the Emirati group, Al Dahra holding, specialized in agri-food and agribusiness.
Contrary to the month of July, the producer price index for the "Manufacturing industries excluding petroleum refining" sector fell by 1.1% in August 2019, according to a statement from the High Commission for Planning (HCP).
A new factory has been inaugurated in Casablanca by Mercure industrie, a Moroccan specialist in hygiene products and solutions. Through this new investment, the company is multiplying its production capacity by 12, to 15,000 tons per year.
The draft decree amending the one establishing the free zone, Tanger automotive city , has been validated by the Council of Government. This paves the way for the extension of this free zone, whose area is about to triple.
The Ministry of Industry and the Customs Department are jointly conducting investigations into import authorizations for poor quality mobile phone chargers, especially those from China.
The creation of companies has seen an increase in the first half of 2019 with the birth of 50,135 entities. Compared to the same period last year, 2,670 more companies have been created.
The driver of a large refrigerated fish truck lost control of his vehicle on Friday, August 16, 2019, at the main entrance to the Port of Dakhla. This fall of the vehicle concerned damaged tons of sardines, according to a statement from the port authorities.
Six cities in Morocco have been selected to host the campaign to sort the skins from the Eid al-Adha sacrifice. This campaign, in the long run, could generate 70 million dirhams.
The Japanese group Yokogawa is setting up in Morocco. It is establishing itself after the implantation in the Kingdom of Toyo inc Group, another industrial group from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Industrial production and sales increased in June 2019. This is the main finding of the Monthly Business Survey in Industry, carried out by Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM).
In one of its recent publications, the Australian news site, The Vibe, has highlighted and also hailed the spectacular economic progress that Morocco has recorded in recent decades, through its astronomical investments in its industrial and transport infrastructure.