Al-Sisi calls for transforming AOI into industrial integration platform
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Wednesday called for transforming the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) into an industrial integration platform that brings together its manufacturing capabilities, private-sector expertise and foreign investment, with a focus on deepening local manufacturing, transferring technology and expanding exports. Al-Sisi made the remarks during a meeting with Mohamed Abdel Fattah Abu Bakr, Chairman of the AOI, who presented the organisation’s development strategy and plans to expand the technological and manufacturing capabilities of its factories, as well as its civilian and military projects, according to a presidency statement. The presidency said the organisation is working to localise new manufacturing technologies, supply various industrial sec…