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Add to Preferred SourcesThe Zenata Development Company (SAZ) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are joining forces to ensure the sustainability of the Zenata industrial park in Morocco.
The industrial park is located within the Zenata Eco-City, which aims to optimize the consumption of energy and water, and to reduce liquid and solid waste – both at the residential and industrial levels. The Zenata industrial park will accommodate the 200 companies which are already active on the Zenata territory, as well as a number of new industrial units. The development of the industrial park’s largest portion is completed and companies have already begun to establish their operations in the park.
UNIDO works to support the development of eco-industrial parks as part of a programme funded by Switzerland.
“The eco-industrial park concept promoted by UNIDO will contribute to achieving the goals of the Zenata Eco-City,” said Smail Alhilali, Chief of UNIDO’s Emerging Compliance Regimes Division.
The partnership combines UNIDO’s international experience in the industrial sector with SAZ’s know-how in the development of an eco-city.
The Zenata eco-industrial park aims to encourage businesses to adopt sustainable development practices to ensure a harmonious economic development of the city while reducing the impact of industrial activities on the environment. It will enable enterprises to realize significant economic and financial gains by reducing the use of water and energy, for example. The park will also create an attractive and competitive business environment by helping develop synergies between companies.
The Zenata Eco-City aims to welcome 300,000 inhabitants and create 100,000 jobs through 4 high value-added activities, namely a health centre, an education centre, a sales centre and a logistics centre.
Original source: UNIDO
Published on 19 November 2018