Italian entrance tiles and Italia flooring tiles

In the early 1980’s Egyptian entrepreneur, Mr. Mohamed M. Abou el Enein, had a vision to start producing quality tiles in Egypt.

He took a big risk by opening, in the middle of the desert, the most modern ceramic tile factory in the world, with single-fire technology.

In 1982 he started arranging staff, gathering technological know-how, organizing a team of Egyptian youth, training and laying the foundation for electrical, transport and water infrastructure.

In 1983 the first factory, Ceramica Cleopatra, was opened in 10th of Ramadan City.

The factory started out with 3500 m2 a day, four lines and 300 members of staff.

After that production doubled every three months.

In 1990, Egyptian President Mubarak made his first visit to Ceramica Cleopatra.

During this same time, Ceramica Cleopatra expanded into markets outside of Egypt: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Libya and Lebanon.

In 1992, Group Ceramica Cleopatra opened a factory for the production of sanitary ware and acrylic bath tubs.

In 1993, Mr. Abou el Enein opened Ceramica Eldorado, the first factory for porcelain and gres tiles in the Middle East.

This factory meant that Group Ceramica Cleopatra no longer needed to import tiles to satisfy its local and international markets.

In 1993, Chinese President Jiang Zemin made an official tour of the factory.

By this point the market was convinced by the high quality of Egyptian tiles, which were also 50% less than the cost of Italian tiles.

In 1995, Ceramica Cleopatra successfully entered the Japanese market, where the demands for standards of quality are extremely high.

In 1995 Group Ceramica Cleopatra was awarded the ISO 9001 certificate

In 1997, Group Ceramica Cleopatra won the ‘Unido Innovative Enterprise Award’

In 1998, Group Ceramica Cleopatra was awarded the rights to develop an Industrial Park in the Suez Special Economic Zone.

Also in this year, Group Ceramica Cleopatra won the ‘Inpex Award of Excellence’ and the ISO 14001

Group Ceramica Cleopatra opened its second factory, Ceramica Eldorado.

In 1999, new kilns were added to the factory Cleopatra Eldorado in Suez to boost production.

In 2000, Cleopatra Mineral Resources (CMR) was started – a mining company which extracted homogenous raw materials for tile production.

In 2001 the third factory, Ceramica Fancy, was opened. At this factory wall, floor, porcelain tiles and decorated and plain sanitary were produced.

In 2008, Galleria Cleopatra was opened. This is Group Ceramica Cleopatra’s fourth factory and the most technologically advanced factory of its kind in the world.

By 2008, Group Ceramica Cleopatra has 12 thousand members of staff, produces 90 million m2 of tiling annually and around 1 million pieces of sanitary ware annually and it exports to more than 100 countries globally.