Mondi Group Announced Expansion of Paper Bag Footprint in Morocco

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, announced that it has started production at its €16 million greenfield plant in Tangier, Morocco. The plant has a production capacity of 100 million paper bags each year.  This will help the company to boost its total West African production capacity to over 500 million bags per year.

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This is Mondi’s third plant in Morocco in addition to the two existing plants and also the fourth in West African region. It has a plant in Ivory Coast. The new plant will help Mondi to meet the rising customer demand for paper bags in the region. The Tangier plant is located within a free trade zone, thus ensuring easier supply to neighbouring countries in the region. It makes use of sack kraft paper produced by Mondi.

Hicham Jalal, Regional Manager- West Africa Paper Bags at Mondi noted that the West African building industry has seen tremendous growth during recent times. Mondi is uniquely positioned to deliver paper-based packaging materials, including high-quality paper bags, directly to customers in the region.

The construction works of the plant had commenced in January this year. Mondi thanked the excellent work carried out by the highly motivated team to start production at the new plant on time.