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Kenya looks to grow leather export sector with 500ha industrial park

Zingo Tannery in Kenya. The government wants to increase the leather industry’s income generation with plans to construct a 500 hectares leather industrial park hosting tanneries and value addition facilities. PHOTO | FILE

Kenya plans to construct a 500 hectares leather industrial park hosting tanneries and value addition facilities at Kinanie in Machakos County.

The Ministry of Industrialisation has given the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) the go-ahead to build the park in Athi River, 35 kilometres from Nairobi and 17km off the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.

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