AFRICAN & MIDDLE EAST NEWS

The 288 percent increase in recycling volumes suggests that more scrap is being collected, sorted, and processed locally rather than shipped to international recyclers.

ABB’s instruments have already been in successful use at Asepto’s Sanand plant in India for over eight years, demonstrating proven reliability and performance.

The partnership with Crown, a global leader in beverage can manufacturing, brings global expertise and scale, and is a significant step in supporting the company’s portfolio across brands such as Kingfisher and Heineken as they scale with this demand.

The inauguration was part of Madbouly’s tour to launch new industrial projects within the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE).

South Africa’s move to build local packhouse equipment manufacturing addresses existing problems, supply chain resilience for operators and traceability data for regulators.

Through collaboration with Ericsson, Umniah ensures that modernization delivers both technical excellence and measurable environmental responsibility, adding that performance and sustainability are not trade-offs but design principles.

Users deposit recyclable waste at designated collection points and receive digital credits stored in a secure digital wallet.

As Indian brand owners face pressure to increase recycled content in packaging, automotive, and construction sectors, access to affordable scrap becomes a strategic input.

Dangote’s integrated complex, which already produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and polypropyle, now enadds these petrochemical streams, allowing Nigerian packaging manufacturers and detergent formulators to source locally.

Achieving 99.55 percent diversion means that less than half of one percent of this waste stream reaches landfill, a standard far stricter than typical municipal recycling targets of 50-70 percent.