Ethiopia

Ethiopia's state corrugated mill hit only 52.7% of plan in H1 2025/26. Here is who buys carton lines now, what they cost, and how deals clear.

Ethiopia's local rebar already undercuts imports by 15 to 22%, yet every furnace behind it is imported. Who supplies Ethiopia's EAF meltshops.

Ethiopia's IAIP program has signed 34 tenants at Yirgalem park alone and a 4.5 billion birr plant at Bure. Where the equipment RFQs actually surface.

Gelila's Bole Lemi plant runs 2,000 of 4,000 planned daily pairs. What an Ethiopian footwear lasting line costs, who buys, and how duty exemption works.

Ethio Telecom put ETB 75.66B into network infrastructure in FY2025/26. Who buys ICT and data centre gear in Ethiopia, and how deals get paid.

Bahir Dar Textile runs 82,000 sq m of daily finishing capacity and is mid-upgrade. Who buys Ethiopia's dyeing lines, and how the RFQ closes.

Ethiopia's plastic bag ban took effect 31 January 2026, pushing converters toward the reusable crates only injection molding can build.

Nekemte's $200 million IAIP build bundles coffee, tea, meat, oilseed and honey lines on one site. How a multi-equipment park build gets specified.

Ethiopia's leather and tannery market hit $589.5 million in 2025 while steel mills still import their rolling equipment. Where the RFQs for both sit.

Ethiopia signed $4.2B in new mining deals in March 2026. Who buys gold, iron-ore, and potash processing equipment, and how deals get paid.

Ethiopia imported EUR 31 million in packaging and printing machinery in 2024. Here is who buys it, what they order, and how LC payment works.

Ethiopia's industrial park exports hit a record $266.9M in FY2025/26, mostly textile and garment. Who buys the equipment and how the deals get paid.

Sentinel Steel and Adama Steel alone run over 480,000 tonnes a year of imported TMT rolling capacity in Ethiopia. Who buys next, and how they pay.

A $725M World Bank credit anchors Ethiopia's water pipeline. Who buys treatment plants, meters, and effluent systems, and how the payment routes split.

Ethiopia signed a $400m, 404km transmission line deal in Feb 2026. What a continuous or batch galvanizing line actually costs to land and run there.

Epic Apparel once ran 20,000 pairs of denim a day at Hawassa. Used and modular wash and finishing equipment options for Ethiopia's garment buyers.

KEFI's Tulu Kapi gold project has over 50% of its process-plant equipment already ordered. Here is how that plant, and the next one, gets into Ethiopia.

Ethiopia exempts mining capital equipment from duty, but a SAG or ball mill order still clears through a birr LC near 162 to the dollar. The path, mapped.

ZYTB DIM's March 2026 license is Ethiopia's first commercial iron ore project, targeting 2 million tonnes a year. The beneficiation line is still open.

Ethiopia's blow moulding machine imports ran $5.12M in 2023, nearly all from China. Here's who buys PET preform lines and how deals get paid.

Two Danakil potash licenses target hundreds of thousands of tonnes a year, but neither project has named an EPCM contractor or locked a vendor list yet.

Buluko Textile, rebuilt from the former Ayka Addis site, runs 30,000-plus spindles and tendered for spinning spares in October 2025.

Ethiopia keeps a 150% export tax on raw hides. A 2026 budget guide to drum machinery costs for buyers fitting out an Ethiopian tannery.

Ethiopia caps tannery discharge at 2 mg/L total chromium. With no ban on used kit, modular and secondhand skids are the fast path to that number.

Ethiopia's unmet animal feed demand runs to $150 million a year. Who buys turnkey feed mills, what they specify, and how the deals get paid.

A 2026 study found one Ethiopian bagasse boiler retrofit lifting output from 9.03 MW to 16.61 MW. Buyers, tenders, FX and duty rules inside.

Ethiopia makes 7.5 million tonnes of cement a year against 36 million tonnes of demand. What foreign suppliers should quote: new, used, or relocated.

Kerchanshe Trading alone runs 67 washing stations across Ethiopia's coffee belt. Where wet-mill and dry-mill equipment RFQs surface, and who buys.

Ethiopia's edible oil supply gap tops 300,000 tonnes and $650M a year in imports. What turnkey, refurbished, and modular lines buyers are sourcing now.

Ethiopia's cement output covers barely a fifth of demand. How AAC and fly-ash brick buyers size, source and pay for a plant here.

Ethiopia's coffee sector earned a record $3 billion in 2025/26. Where sesame, feed, and coffee-processing RFQs surface for foreign suppliers.

Ethiopia's barcode law already blocks unbarcoded medicine imports. Kilinto alone counts about ten signed pharma tenants needing blister lines.

Ethiopia's six brewers run 18M hectolitres of capacity; Kegna's Krones-built Ginchi line alone cost 5.5 billion birr. Where the equipment RFQs sit.

Ethiopia's cement demand outruns supply by 60%. Who buys building-materials plant here, and how foreign suppliers get paid for it.

Ethiopia's 18.5M hl brewing base could recover close to 59,000 tonnes of CO2 a year on site instead of importing it. Equipment, buyers and costs mapped.

A $600M Ethiopian dairy mega-project and duty-free park zones are pulling UHT line RFQs forward. A project guide for foreign suppliers quoting them.

EEU's $30.6B 25-year grid plan and Ethiopia's first wind IPP are driving live RFQs for transformers, SCADA, and cogeneration gear.

Ethiopia's Akaki plant targets 600,000 t/yr, near 20x recent import volume. What that means for float glass line suppliers and buyers.

Ethiopia's food processors face a 300,000-tonne edible oil gap worth over $650M in imports: equipment categories, named buyers, FX/LC and tenders.

Ethiopia's grid plan calls for 6,945 MVA of new transformer capacity. Who buys it, what it costs to land, and how EEP and EEU tenders differ.

Ethiopia's bottled water market hit $301M in 2025. Named buyers, FX/LC mechanics, and the stations a PET filling line RFQ must cover.

Ethiopia's pharma market is growing 15% a year toward $3.6B by 2030. Where the equipment RFQs sit, who signs them, and how the deals get paid.

Ethiopia's edible-oil gap tops 300,000 tonnes a year. What sesame cleaning, grading, and extraction equipment buyers need, and how they pay for it.

ShieldVax's $70M Kilinto vaccine plant is Ethiopia's first sterile fill-finish build. How the project gets specified, financed, and built end to end.

Ethiopia counts 51 wheat millers operating or under construction against a 7-million-tonne 2026/27 harvest. Equipment scope, buyers, FX/LC, tenders.

Ethiopia's 2022 sugar-estate privatisation covers eight state mills and remains unresolved four years on. How equipment still ships, clears and gets paid for.

Ethiopia's pasta market hit 148,000 tonnes and $150M in 2024, second-largest in Africa. Where the line RFQs sit, who buys, and how deals get paid.

Entry rotary presses land in Ethiopia from roughly $4,500; cGMP high-speed units run past $45,000. What actually sets the number, and who is buying.

Addis Ababa's ready-mix producers batch up to 120 m3 an hour. A 2026 guide to sourcing plant, picking a mixer, and getting paid in birr.

A EUR 54.6M French tranche is automating Ethiopian substations under RISED. Who buys SCADA systems here, and how the orders get paid.

Ethiopia's processed tomato demand grows 15% a year and 55% of it is still imported. The equipment, buyers and RFQ path for a paste line.

Dangote's new 3 million tonne grinding unit at Mugher is one signal. Where used and modular VRMs fit Ethiopia's wider grinding build-out.

How foreign suppliers can read Ethiopia's industrial procurement market in 2026: FX reform, industrial parks, sector capex, and how RFQs actually flow.