AHSA, 25 August 2005 — Ahsa Province is in the process of establishing 19 new factories, with an investment cost of SR195 million, for producing different industrial products. They will add to the 28 factories already in the industrial city. Ibrahim Al-Barrak, manager of the industrial city in Ahsa, said that 112 other factories have also being licensed with an investment cost of SR1,164 billion, reported Al-Eqtisadiyah newspaper.