RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources issued 115 industrial licenses with investments worth SR4 billion ($1.06 billion) in August 2022, official data showed. The data from the ministry revealed that the number of industrial units across the Kingdom reached 10,707, up from 10,685 in July 2022. In August 2021, the number of industrial facilities across Saudi Arabia was 10,159. According to the data, 68 factories became operational in August 2022, with an investment volume of SR2.3 billion. Forty-one licenses were issued to industrial units in the Riyadh region followed by 26 in the Eastern Province and 22 in the Makkah region. In the Madinah region, eight new factory licenses were issued in August, and it was followed by the Qassim region with seven, four in Asir, three each in Tabuk and Hail regions and one license for a factory in the Jazan region.