Industrial Pollution Prevention and Control: Illustrative Work

Under the two phases of its assistance to the KfW-financed Environmental Protection Financing Facility for Public Sector Industry, Chemonics Egypt conducted industrial environmental audits for 154 factories and assisted the company managements to prepare technical and financial proposals for cost-effective pollution prevention and control projects.  Chemonics Egypt has been contracted independently by private and public companies to undertake sampling and testing, industrial audits, and/or environmental compliance planning for their facilities.  Chemonics Egypt has assisted EEAA in the development and field-testing of industrial environmental inspection guidelines and trained EEAA inspectors. 

In its work on the USAID Canal Cities Water and Wastewater Systems Improvement Project, Chemonics Egypt surveyed all industrial and commercial establishments in Suez to prepare a short-list of establishments likely to store, use, or produce any of 126 U.S.EPA-defined pollutants which adversely effect wastewater collection facilities or treatment processes, and then conducted facility investigations, flow measurement, and wastewater sampling and analysis to determine pollutant concentrations and estimate loadings by pollutant in 75 establishments.

Chemonics Egypt was contracted by the DfID-funded Support for Environmental Assessment and Management (SEAM) Project to conduct wastewater sampling and analysis of 30 factories in selected governorates.  On the USAID Cairo Air Improvement Project, Chemonics Egypt is working with several authorities and companies in Greater Cairo to develop vehicle emissions testing programs, procure and maintain CNG (compressed natural gas)-operated buses, and implement major pollution control and relocation measures for lead smelters.

The future activities of this sector will be carried out by the Chemonics Egypt's sister company, "Environics".  For more information on Environics, click on the link below.

Environics Company Profile (PDF Format)