Paper & Packaging

A circular loom alone runs $26,500-28,500. Line-item costs, the fertiliser, cement and mining buyers pulling demand, and how the purchase gets financed.

Bookworld's new Nilpeter flexo press runs at 175 metres a minute, Zambia's first film-capable line. Who buys this equipment, and how deals get paid.

BigTree Beverages has run SACMI preform presses since 2018. How used and modular PET preform and blow moulding equipment gets bought into Zambia.

Boxpack Zambia's USD 5M line will triple output to 1,800 tonnes a month. Equipment, named suppliers, indicative pricing, and how deals clear in Zambia.

Zambia imported USD 410M in plastics and USD 1B in machinery in 2023. Who buys packaging and printing equipment, and how the deals actually settle.

A three-plant converter group, a 30-micron floor from NEMA and UNBS, and UGX 207.7/kWh industrial power. Planning a film extrusion line in Uganda.

Coca-Cola's USD 27M Namanve line runs 67,000 bottles per hour. Who buys PET blow molding machines in Uganda, which class fits, and how deals get paid.

A $27M PET line at Namanve, a three-plant flexible packaging group, and e-GP tenders from July 2026. Uganda's packaging machinery buyers, mapped.

Kenya imported $4.66M of blow moulding machinery in 2024. The levies, KEBS certificate, Mombasa route and payment terms behind a Kenyan PET line.

Kenya's flexible packaging market is USD 2.24B in 2026, but gravure is held back by cylinder costs. What landing a press in Mombasa actually takes.

Kenya imported USD 9.9M of injection moulding machines in 2024. How to pick tonnage, drive type and tooling, and what really lands on the invoice.

Kenya's flexible packaging market hits USD 2.24B in 2026. The converters, printers, and recyclers buying machinery, and how their deals get paid.

Kenya generates 880,000 tonnes of plastic waste a year and recycles under 8%. What a recycling line really costs to land, install, licence and run.

France runs 70 corrugated plants and 5.6 billion m2 of output. Here is how French box makers reach buyers as PPWR rewrites the rules in 2026.

France exported EUR 22.5B in cosmetics in 2024, with perfume up 13.6%. Here is how French cosmetic packaging makers reach buyers in 2026.

France produced 6.5 million tonnes of paper in 2024. Here is how the specialty mills behind Canson, Clairefontaine and Hahnemuhle reach buyers in 2026.

Senegal imports over 90% of its medicines. A project guide to winning blister line, cartoner, and serialization RFQs as local pharma production scales.

Ghana consumes roughly 8.2 billion water sachets a year. Here is how flexo and gravure press suppliers win flexible-packaging RFQs from FMCG converters.

Ghana imported EUR 56M of plastics technology and EUR 49M of packaging machinery in 2024. How equipment suppliers win packaging and printing RFQs.

Ghana imported EUR 56M of plastics technology in 2024. A step-by-step greenfield procurement guide for PET stretch-blow moulding lines.

Twellium's Kumasi water line runs at 80,000 bottles/hr. Here is what a Ghana PET bottling line costs, who buys it, and how the LCs clear.

Ghana imported EUR 56M of plastics processing technology in 2024. A buyer's guide to PET preform and cap injection moulding systems and who buys them.

Ghana imported EUR 56M of plastics technology in 2024. A budget guide to HDPE jerry can blow moulding: machine, mould, install, and FX cost.

Rotary screen printing kit lands in Ghana at 5% duty plus 15% VAT under the ECOWAS tariff. Here is the FX, customs, and HS-code playbook to Tema.

Ghana collects under 10% of its 0.84M tonnes of plastic waste. A USD 37M IFC plant targets 15,000 t/yr of food-grade rPET. What to buy, used or modular.

Coca-Cola's Windhoek line runs 27,000 units an hour. Here is how to source a can filling line in Namibia: fillers, seamers, FX, and quotes.

Namibia imports ~$19.5M of cartons a year. Used and modular corrugated machinery, flexo folder-gluers, die-cutters, sourcing and freight.

Buyer's guide to flexible packaging equipment in Namibia: extruders, printing, laminating, pouch lines, suppliers, and indicative pricing.

Namibia shipped 9.3M cartons of table grapes worth N$1.7B in 2023/24. Here is where the packaging and printing machinery RFQs actually sit.

Bakhresa mills 8,560 tonnes a day and every tonne needs a pouch. How to scope and source a form-fill-seal line for the Tanzanian market.

Africa's plastic packaging market hits $15.93B in 2025. How packaging and printing machinery suppliers win Tanzanian RFQs through TANePS and named buyers.

Africa's plastic packaging market hit $15.93B in 2025, with Tanzania a named growth corridor. What water and CSD bottlers buy when they spec a full PET line.

Bakhresa's $500M plant doubles to 300,000 cartons a day by 2026. How to scope and source an end-of-line shrink wrap and palletising project in Tanzania.

Egypt's paper packaging market hits $2.06B in 2026, corrugated at 30% share. New vs used corrugated board and folding carton plant economics.

Egypt imported $717M of packaging, converting and printing machinery in 2025, up 43% in two years. Where the spend sits and who already holds it.

Morocco's plastic film market hit 0.57 million tonnes in 2025. How film extrusion line suppliers win blown and cast RFQs from Moroccan converters.

Egypt's plastic packaging market hits $2.49B in 2026 and a new $119.4M PET resin line is coming online. How to spec, finance, and clear a preform machine.

Egypt's pharma packaging market hits $536M by 2030 and a 2026 serialization mandate forces line upgrades. How to import blister and sachet lines cleanly.

Morocco's flexible packaging market hit USD 1.98B in 2025. How equipment suppliers win converting, film, PET and corrugated RFQs from Moroccan buyers.

Morocco's PET bottle market hits USD 31.77M in 2025 at 6.25% CAGR. How to buy new, modular, or used stretch blow moulding lines and quote them right.

South Africa's metal packaging market hit USD 1.02B in 2025, aluminium at 62.55% share. Where can-line RFQs sit and how foreign suppliers win them.

Africa's corrugated box market is the fastest-growing region at 6.86% CAGR to 2031. Here is how to sell converting lines to South African buyers.

Nigeria's flexible packaging segment is worth $3.31B in 2026. New vs used pouch, printing and slitting lines, and how to pick a supplier.

Pipe, blown film, or sheet? A Nigerian buyer's guide to sourcing HDPE extrusion lines, new versus used economics, and what to inspect before paying.

Nigeria runs over 100 bottled-water brands and a 70%-share soft-drink duopoly. How to spec, clear, and land a PET stretch-blow molding line.

Africa's packaging automation market hits USD 3.89B in 2026, with palletising the fastest-growing line. How to win South African end-of-line RFQs.

A buyer's guide to corrugated box plant suppliers in Nigeria: line scope, output tiers, imported testliner reality, and how to scope an RFQ.

Nigeria's packaging market is worth $0.92B, its flexible segment $3.31B. How foreign equipment suppliers win packaging and printing RFQs.

Coca-Cola's R365m Midrand line runs at 72,000 bph. Here's where PET bottling line RFQs sit in South Africa and how foreign suppliers win them.

PET holds 40.36% of South Africa's beverage packaging. Here's how preform injection molding suppliers reach Mpact, Alpla and FMCG buyers directly.

South Africa's flexible packaging market hits USD 2.96B in 2026. A buyer's guide to extrusion and laminating lines: specs, suppliers, pricing.

South Africa's plastic packaging market hit USD 2.66B in 2025. Here's how foreign machinery suppliers win RFQs from Nampak, Mpact, Mondi and FMCG buyers.

Canada's packaging market hit USD 22.5B in 2025 with 587 converted paper establishments and growing US demand. Here's how manufacturers reach buyers directly.

Turkey's packaging exports hit $6.95B in 2024, with plastic at 63%. Two-day delivery to Europe gives Turkish manufacturers a logistics edge over Asia.