solution provider founded 1938 headquarters cairo egypt area served worldwide key people ahmed elsewedy president and ceo revenue 1.692 billion usd 2009 1 net income 114.9 million usd 2009 1 number of employees 10 000 2009 website www.elsewedy.com elsewedy electric is an egyptian manufacturing company . it was founded in 1938 by the elsewedy family . the company manufactures and sells integrated energy products and services in seven energy segments cables and accessories electrical products telecommunications transformers wind energy generation energy measurement and management engineering procurement and contracting . history edit in 1938 elsewedy family started their business as a trader in electrical equipment . from 1960 1995 the family changed the company from just trading in electrical equipment to being a distributor for the sole cable manufacturer in egypt at that time 1960 . during this period it was focused on selling cables to the egyptian market until the elsewedy family established the first private sector cable factory in egypt arab cables in 1984 . at that time all other cable manufacturers in egypt were solely owned by the egyptian government . the company was located in one of egypt s industrial zones 60 km east of cairo with expressways linking it to egypt s major mediterranean and red sea ports . it was specialized in the manufacturing of low medium & high voltage power cables control cables and over head transmission lines . in 1996 a second factory was built specializing in power cable manufacturing for export egytech . egytech was awarded quality standards 2 such as iso kema basec ce vde and sgs and was capable of exporting products to algeria angola bahrain chad cyprus india iraq ireland italy jordan kazakhstan kenya ksa kuwait libya mauritius nigeria qatar romania russia rwanda spain and south africa . to improve quality control ever the end product of the cables the company established a factory of pvc compounds and master batch . in 1996 sedplast was established to improve effectiveness and efficiency throughout the processes and systems of the company . sedplast specialized in pvc compounds including soft and rigid pvc as well as white master batch black master batch color master batch and additive master batch . in 1997 the company established an industrial facility to meet tailored customer requirements including domestic appliance cords category 7 ethernet cables ; twisted pair telephone cables for home and business premises and complex instrumentation cables needed to monitor natural resources . to complete the vertical integration a joint venture was established between elsewedy cables and elastimold a unit of the cables accessories company thomas & betts . it was established to cover the markets in the mena region for medium and high voltage joints and terminations . in collaboration with southwire usa a continuous cast and rolled copper rod plant has been brought up in 1998 to have the largest plant through the middle east and north africa . united metals acquired special high grade zinc with a purity of 99.995 % according to astm b6 . another company was established in 1998 to increase the capacities of serving cables accessories elsewedy sedco for the production of cable joints and terminations in egypt through collaboration with international companies . from 2002 2008 ahmed sadek elsewedy took the lead in the family business . following its establishment in the egyptian market in 2002 a joint venture was formed between the sudanese company the giad and elsewedy cables . the company s capital increased reach 8 million usd and new machinery was added to increase capacity to approximately 3 000 tons of aluminum conductors and 3 000 tons of copper conductors . 2003 was the year where the company began to diversify its specialty to more than cables . sudanese egyptian electrical industries a transformers industrial facility at khartoum sudan with factory area of 12 000 square meters to manufacture 6 000 units yearly . in 2004 the company began through the joint venture with an italian company called italsmea . since then italsmea elsewedy was renamed elsewedy sedco for petroleum services to supply electrical bulk materials and explosion proof equipment for petroleum companies . to serve the levant markets elsewedy cables set up an industrial facility for cables manufacturing in syria during 2005 . in 2007 another factory was established in syria for manufacturing transformers to cover africa and the middle east . since 2008 five additional cables facilities have been established in algeria saudi arabia ethiopia yemen and qatar . two transformer manufacturing facilities have also been established in zambia and egypt . elsewedy transformers egypt is the only factory that manufacturers power transformers at operating voltages of up to 220 kv in the middle east and africa . the egyptian company for electrical insulators was also fully acquired by elsewedy cables in 2008 . the company has also entered two new segments ; electrical energy measurement and management and wind energy generation . elsewedy cables fully acquired iskraemeco 3 a slovenian manufacturer of energy measurement and management operating since 1945 with a manufacturing capacity reaching 3 million meters . the group entered the wind energy sector through the strategic acquisition of a spanish wind turbine manufacturer mtorres olvega industrial 4 and a joint venture agreement with the german windmill tower manufacturer siag . in 2010 elsewedy cables renamed itself elsewedy electric to reflect the recent diversification of its portfolio of energy products and services . references edit a b annual report 2009 pdf . elsewedy electric . retrieved 2009 12 31 . elsewedy electric approvals and certificates . elsewedy electric . iskraemeco company profile . mtorres olvega industrial mtoi company profile . external links edit official website media related to elsewedy electric at wikimedia commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title elsewedy electric & oldid 744180374 categories companies established in 1938manufacturing companies based in cairo1938 establishments in egyptegyptian brandshidden categories commons category without a link on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 16 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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