Chemicals business in Ethiopia

Basic Pharmaceutical Products Making Plant

Basic pharmaceutical products are medicines considered essential for meeting the basic health needs of a community in the context of the health care standard of our country.  The list of these essential medicines or popularly known as essential drugs are usually prepared by the Ministry of Health.  In the importation of pharmaceutical products, priority is given to these essential drugs.  Drugs can be classified on the basis of medicinal uses or on the basis of their sources of origin.  Based on their medicinal use, drugs are classified into twenty-eight groups.  On the other hand, drugs are classified into five groups based on their sources of origin.  These are (a) drugs of vegetable and plant origin (b) hormones and glandular products (c) antibiotics (d) synthetic drugs and (e) vitamins and biologicals.  The essential drugs are composed of the various groups of drugs just mentioned. 

Unit 1000pcs 

Drug	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	Ave
Capsules	273500	214800	268000	235000	173900	233000
Tablets	491300	451000	310400	434600	201300	377700
Antibiotics	29600	32200	5700	7200	--	14900

 Capital here

 

Insecticide Aerosol Making Plant

Mosquitoes and other flies are attacking large section of the   Region and are hazardous to the health of many section of the population.  At present there is no pesticide factory in the region that produces chemical to fight the hazardous health problem.  The establishment of an aerosol insecticide making plant in the region will contribute a lot to reduce the crises.  The people can purchase the aerosol insecticide in the nearby market and spray it in their homes, which will kill all undesirable insects including mosquitoes.  Hotel and office can also use the insecticide.

 

Animal Glue Making Plant

Rationale: One of the main inputs for producing glue is animal bone.  This input can be obtained from abbiatores, meat processing factories and from other traditional sources where livestock are killed for consumption.  The natural death of cattle is also a source of animal bone.  With all these sources, however, no attempt has been made to produce glue on a commercial scale.  One exception is the unit within the Addis Ababa Abbiatores which produces a modest quantity of glue for domestic consumption.  The supply of animal bones outside Addis Ababa is not used for any economic purpose; it is simply thrown away.  Since animal glue is used by many types of industries such as shoe making, wood working, packaging, etc, the product has market as well as raw material.

More 

 

Plant for Reprocessing of Waste Batteries

Market Potential: Practically all the cart batteries used in the country are imported. With the lifting of import restriction and foreign exchange control, import of car batteries to the country has increased substantially during the last 15 years. At the same time, disposal of waste batteries in the county has also increased. Though not recognized at present, throwing away old batteries causes serious environmental problems. Hence every means should be employed to reprocess waste batteries and reuse them. 

Investment 1.1million per 5000batteries/yr

More  

46 more projects under this category and 400 other recent ideas https://sites.google.com/site/projectethio/