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Al Sharq
Acquisition
On June 2005, Savola Packaging Systems Company made an
Acquisition for Al Sharq Plastics Company, which is one of
the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the Region.
The Acquisitions included 3 factories one is for the
plastics products which include almost all types of plastic
products, containers Closures; house holds products, drums
and pallets. The 2nd factory manufactures a top
of the art plastic films and bags and the third factory is
used for crushing and recycling. 450 employees were included
in that’s as well.
With this Acquisition, Savola Packaging Systems will
increase its market share and consequently will have a more
variety of plastic products to offer to the customer.
SPS Export
to Japan 
Our PET Export division signed a five year contract for
supplying PET Preforms for hot fill applications well known company dedicated in supplying PET Containers
for Hot Fill Applications to the bottlers in Japan. These
containers are exclusively used for filling Mineral water and
other beverages at a filling temperature of 85-102 C, which is
one of the highest form of maintaining hygiene of the package.
Supplying preforms for this application would further open
opportunities for Savola to tap huge potential of the far east
market for the Hot fill application.
This also positions Savola as one of the
suppliers producing preforms for Hot fill which is a rarity of
something similarly done by any manufacturers in the Middle
East.
NADEC signs
a 3 years contract with SPS
One of the Major Dairy and Juice Company in the
Kingdom NADEC signed a 3 year contract with us for supplying PET
Containers in the 3 sizes for 200,500 and 1000 ml. This was a
major shift by NADEC by changing their existing HDPE bottles
Package to PET. This was marked with such a success that in less
than a months time from the launch NADEC got very encouraging
response from the market. As a consequence the contract that was
eventually signed for 32 million pcs was revisited and was
modified to 56 million pcs. It was great efforts by the PET team
and the confidence they put in the customers of their
capabilities.
This project may be seen as a long term vision
of the VP of Savola in getting our packaging company recognized
as a pioneer in playing a lead role in shifting the existing
HDPE packages to PET, a plastic that is getting worldwide
recognition.
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Nadec PET Bottles
Export @ SPS:
One of the elements
of SAVOLA Plastics strategic focus is to build reliable export
market especially for PET Preforms. So far, SAVOLA Plastics
started dealing with some of the multinational beverages companies
based in the Southeast Asian, Gulf & African countries. |