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The development of the Kenya Leather Park is guided by Kenya’s Vision 2030, the country’s economic development blueprint, that aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrialized, “middle-income country providing a high-quality life to all its citizens by the year 2030” The objective of the Economic Pillar of Vision 2030 is to create a robust, diversified and competitive manufacturing sector in three ways: 1) boosting local production, 2) expanding to the regional market and 3) taking advantage of global market niches.
To boost local production in leather, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives, through its implementing agencies, the Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA) and the Kenya Leather Development Council (KLDC), is developing Kenya’s first Leather Park at Kinanie, Machakos County. The Kenya Leather Park (KLP) set on a 500-acre site will encourage value addition and innovation towards unlocking economic potential of the Leather sector in Kenya.
The Kenya Leather Park aims to create an enabling environment for the attraction and facilitation of increased Foreign and Domestic Direct Investments into Kenya. 90% of Kenya’s USD 94 million leather exports are unfinished wet blue leather. Further processing of finished leather and leather goods will create and additional 35,000 jobs and USD 150-250 million in GDP and contribute to substituting a portion of USD 86 million in shoe imports yearly. This will create a leather cluster of 5-6 leather footwear manufacturers, 8-10 leather tanneries and additional supporting industries
Project Overview
Set-up a 500 acre leather cluster with a host of services to promote the sector including:Focus
Leather footwear producers aiming, to take advantage of Kenya’s favourable cost structure and strategic position, to serve global, regional and domestic markets. Strategic locationWhy Athi River EPZ?
Taxes (in case of export production)