Ports
AL KHAT PACKAGING
BEGINS CONSTRUCTION
OF ITS PLANT IN ABU
DHABI PORTS’ KIZAD
News
requirements of various supply convenient and cost effective
contracts covering the region. business operations,” he added.
AED 80m-facility to support
Al Khat’s packaging material
supply for McDonalds
Located in Kizad’s “mixed use”
cluster, the facility will produce folding paper packaging and printing products, es-
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SAUDI WAREHOUSING
SOLUTIONS PROVIDER
pecially for the UAE, Saudi SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH
Arabian and South African SOHAR FREEZONE
bu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and
manager of ports and Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kizad) in
the Emirate, announced today
the start of construction of Al
Khat Packaging Co.’s subsidiary ‘Gulf Printing and Packaging Company’ in Kizad. One of
the largest producers of printing and packaging materials
in Kuwait, Al Khat Packaging
Co., is the only approved provider of packaging materials
for McDonalds and other leading brands in the Middle East.
developments at Muscat and
Salalah international airports,
The AED 80-million-facility
in Kizad will be Al Khat’s first
production plant outside Kuwait. The factory will further
expand the company’s manufacturing capacity to meet the
Mohamed AbouKhalid, General
Manager of Al Khat Packaging
Co., said: “Today marks the first
step towards the realisation of
our business growth strategy.
The construction of our Gulf
Printing and Packaging facility will significantly support our
expansion plans in catering to
our existing prestigious clients
and acquiring new ones, while
maintaining our high quality and
food safety standards. With excellent multi-model connectivity
and Khalifa Port at our doorstep, Kizad is the natural choice
to facilitate this realisation.
markets. Senior executives of
Abu Dhabi Ports and Al Khat • SOHAR pens deal with Saudi
Packaging Co. attended the logistics and warehouse proground-breaking
ceremony. vider WPL
Commenting about the project,
Captain Mohamed Juma Al
Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi
Ports, said: “Apart from catering
for Al Khat’s existing high-profile
clients in the region and beyond,
its first overseas production plant
in Kizad can, in the future, also
support the increasing number
of food businesses within the
zone, looking for quality printing and packaging materials.
“We are happy that the new facility, once built, will enhance
the ‘economies of proximity’
offered by Kizad’s integrated
clustering approach, facilitating
• Construction of 100,000sqm
warehouse park in SOHAR
Freezone to begin
• Good start for 2016 SOHAR
‘Year of Logistics’ to attract
2PL/3PL players
S
OHAR Port and Freezone
signed a new deal this
week with Warehousing Solutions LLC, a newly established company belonging to
Saudi Arabian logistics provider Warehousing Projects
and Logistics LLC (WPL).
WPL started in 2010 with a
land bank of around 500,000m2
situated in the industrial cities of Dammam, Riyadh, Jed-
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