Machinery & Equipment

The Egypt facility will produce aseptic packaging for the global market, backing export-oriented manufacturing from its site near the Suez Canal.

Since flexo plate quality directly affects print resolution, ink transfer, and registration accuracy, investments in imaging technology are central for converters aiming to match gravure and offset standards.

A domestic coating line lets the company respond faster to customers, cutting reliance on imported label stock and shortening lead times for Indian converters.

Through jointly owned Sohar Paper Products LLC, the partners will build the proposed 20,000-tonne-per-year facility, targeting commercial operations by late 2027.

Processing up to 100,000 tonnes of post-consumer PET bottles a year (about 6.5 billion bottles), the plant diverts major plastic volumes from streets, landfills, drains, and waterways.

The facility south of Brisbane will process up to 200,000 tonnes of recovered Queensland glass annually, bringing sorting, melting, forming, and finished-product logistics together on one site.

Operating under FDA- and EFSA-approved processes, the facility’s output can enter food-contact packaging applications requiring stringent purity standards.

Combining digital printing with flexo, semi-rotary die-cutting, cold foiling, lamination, and varnishing, the hybrid press enables single-pass printing and finishing of complex labels, eliminating separate equipment transfers.

Using Honeywell UOP’s Naphtha Hydrotreating, CCR Platforming, and LDPX Aromatics Complex technologies, the facility will make about 1.2M metric tons of paraxylene and 500,000 metric tons of benzene yearly.