gabon Special Economic Zone

An ecosystem serving Gabon’s industrialization and
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1st Carbon-neutral certified
industrial zone in Africa

Gabon Special Economic Zone

GSEZ is a Public-Private Partnership between Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) and the Republic of Gabon.

Launched in 2010, GSEZ was set up to foster local timber processing, industrial production, and the sustainable use of Gabon’s natural resources, primarily timber, for local and export markets. It allows national and international investors to set up businesses with ease, thanks to a unique administrative and fiscal status.

GSEZ has succeeded in industrializing the timber sector in Gabon. Up until the government ban on the export of logs in 2010, Gabon mostly exported raw logs. To compensate for this huge shortfall for the country, we set up a wood cluster to transform wood and catalyze growth in the local wood industry. standards.

KEY FIGURES

25000

direct and indirect jobs created

€251 MILLION

worth of products exported annually

820,000 M3

of timber processed in 2020

€1.6 BILLION

generated in direct foreign investments

Our Group and History

What We Do

Our Wood Cluster

Our Luxury Furniture – Akiba

Our Group & History

GSEZ is a Public-Private Partnership between Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) and the Republic of Gabon.

What We Do

We identify industrial gaps in African countries to unlock value and create new industries

Our Wood Cluster

GSEZ has enabled the country to develop and modernize a wood sector by relying on specialization, one-stop services, and alignment with the national development strategy.

Our Luxury Furniture – Akiba
Akiba’s furniture collection is much more than just wood furniture. It represents a lifestyle choice of elegance, integrity, and sustainability.
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“GSEZ is the cornerstone of our emerging Gabon strategy, which aims to protect our environment in a sustainable manner while fostering diversified industrial growth.”

HIS EXCELLENCY ALI BONGO ONDIMBA,

President of the Republic of Gabon

Faced with growing demands, GSEZ has made sustainability, traceability and certification one of its priorities.

All of Gabon’s forest concessions operate according to the sustainable forest management practices prescribed by the Gabonese Forest Code, which ensures the natural regeneration of forests in the long term and the sustainable supply of raw materials.

In terms of traceability, since October 2018, GSEZ has benefited from the services of the independent agency, Tracer-Nkok the fruit of a partnership venture between FRM France (Forest Resources Management) and the Gabonese NGO Brainforest – The Venture Studio for Forests & Climate, which ensures that all logs entering the special economic zone are traceable.

Arise

Integrated Industrial Platforms

is a pan-African developer of industrial ecosystems and their integrated logistics services. It conceives, finances, builds, and operates integrated and tailor-made industrial zones with high added value.

Arise IIP identifies industrial gaps in African countries and unlocks local value by creating new industries. Our aim is to industrialize key sectors by creating local transformation, maximizing production, efficiency, and cost, which in turn generates local value addition.

News & Media

GEOFFREY YORKAFRICA BUREAU CHIEF
HAUT-ABANGA, GABON
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Nov 4th 2021 (Updated Nov 9th 2021) | RAPONDA WALKER ARBORETUM, LIBREVILLE

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