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Aluminium Windows in Egypt: Market and Sourcing Notes
An Egyptian enquiry usually arrives as a schedule rather than a single window: a few sizes repeated across a compound, a villa elevation with two feature lights, and a distributor asking for the same list under his own label. What decides the order is how those lines are grouped before anybody quotes. This guide covers the market as a buyer meets it, from the shape of the schedule to the port the container leaves from.
The shape of an Egyptian schedule
Work in the trade tends to come as volume with little variety: one bedroom window repeated down a block, a balcony front on every other floor, and a handful of large lights where the elevation is meant to be seen. That shape suits a single series list, because a repeated size is quoted once and produced as a run. Ask for the split by type before the total, since five sizes and four hundred units behaves very differently from forty sizes and forty units.
Dry heat inland, salt at the coast
Cairo and the inland cities run hot and dry, with a sun that arrives unbroken for most of the day, so the glass carries the cooling load and the frame mostly has to stay straight. Alexandria, Damietta and the Red Sea strip add salt to the same heat, which moves the question to the finish and to the hardware. Treat one schedule with two exposures and the coastal units need a different coating from the inland ones.
Dust that arrives with the wind
The canal corridor and the new cities see dust carried on the wind for weeks at a time, and the fine fraction settles wherever a gap exists. A window handles it with three parts: a gasket that compresses along the sash, drainage that lets grit leave with the water, and a lock that pulls the leaf flat instead of latching at one point. A casement closes onto its gasket as a whole leaf; a slider relies on track clearance instead.
One series list across the elevation
Egyptian work usually resolves into three lines. The 50 series casement takes the standard rooms: 50 mm deep, a 1.2 mm wall, 5-20 A-5 glazing behind a high-transparency insect screen. The 95 series sliding window takes the balcony fronts on 95 mm depth and ball-bearing rollers. The 112 series casement covers the feature lights on a 2.0 mm wall with a flush-line sash. Keep one finish across all three.
Finish, ports and the paper that follows
Fluorocarbon is the sensible choice for units within reach of salt, while anodised or a thermal transfer wood grain holds inland, and RAL matching keeps a scheme together across phases. Containers leave through Alexandria, Port Said or Damietta, and the shipping plan usually follows the build sequence so frames and glass land as the site can take them. Every quotation carries the dimensional pack as a PDF, with CAD on request.
FAQ
Frequently asked
How does an Egyptian order usually reach a factory?
As a schedule with a handful of sizes repeated across a development, often from a distributor who sells under his own brand or from a developer building in phases. The reply that helps quotes the split by type, names one series per type and states the finish once, because a second colour turns one production run into two.
Which glass suits the inland climate?
A 5-20 A-5 insulating unit is the standard build and covers most inland rooms, holding the room-side face steadier while the sun is on the glass. Where an elevation takes the afternoon sun without shade, a coated outer pane can be added, and the build is confirmed per orientation at quotation.
How is a window kept tight against dust?
By closing the leaf onto a compressible gasket rather than onto a stop, and by draining the sill openly so what blows in can leave again. A multi-point lock draws the sash onto the EPDM foam gasket along its full height, which is the part a single latch cannot do.
Can a distributor order under his own brand?
Yes. Private-label packing and buyer-brand documentation are part of OEM supply, and the carton marks can carry the destination site rather than the factory. Ask for the packing detail with the quotation, because the marks and the packing list have to agree when the container is checked.
What sets the shipping plan for an Egyptian project?
The ports named on the order and the order in which the site can install. Alexandria, Port Said and Damietta all handle full container loads, and glass may travel apart from the frames so a phase can be glazed as it closes up. Lead time is confirmed with the quotation, against the series, the finish and the glass.
Send your opening schedule
Series, glazing and finish come back as one quotation, with the full dimensional pack on PDF and CAD on request.