Manufacturing & Retail

A local manufacturing facility in Al Kharj positions Hotpack to serve Saudi customers with shorter delivery windows, lower freight costs, and the ability to customise orders without long-distance coordination.

For India’s electronics supply chain, that packaging step is not incremental, it is the difference between raw material and finished goods.

The production process is resource-efficient, enables local supply chains, and achieves a 91 percent CO₂ reduction during production and disposal compared to conventional plastics, according to the company’s Life Cycle Assessment.

Ravi Jaipuria stated that the company is putting up a recyclable PET plant, noting that after putting that plant, imports will reduce substantially, and the company will be exporting to other countries from Zimbabwe.

The hub’s repackaging centres are designed to address a fundamental packaging failure: food arriving from multiple smallholder farms in varied, non-standardised containers must be sorted, cleaned, and repackaged into uniform.

The container had to meet different demands across the reuse and refill process, including being free from “trap points” crevices or internal ledges where food residue or rinse water could collect to enable effective washing once returned to Ocado Retail ahead of refilling.

A stake in Sohar Aluminium would secure off-take from a smelter that already sells approximately 60% of its output to local downstream customers.

The mill, built on a 59,000-square-metre site, has an annual production capacity of 135,000 tonnes and operates using 100 percent waste paper recycling, supporting the UAE’s circular economy and sustainability objectives.

The subsidiary’s mandate includes packaging of sugar and other FMCG products, indicating that Dhampur Bio Organics intends to perform value-added activities beyond simple commodity trading.

Esin Güral Argat, Vice President of the Turkish Gürok Group, affirmed commitment to expanding its investments in the Egyptian market, describing Egypt as a major gateway for exports to the Middle East and Africa.