3P Gulf Packaging, headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and recognized as one of the major stretch film manufacturers in the MENA region, has announced a significant investment to bolster its premium stretch wrap film production capacity. Earlier this year, the company unveiled the addition of a new Powercast XL 4.5-meter line and a SmartCast 3-meter line.
Ali Hashim, the founder of 3P Gulf Group, explained the rationale behind their investment, stating, “We supply stretch wrap film in premium quality to customers all over Europe. In order for us to continuously expand our business at a global scale and to ensure the high quality of our film, we buy machinery from the world market leader in stretch film machinery.”
The new PowerCast line will be established at a 3P site in Rabigh, marking a substantial increase in 3P’s stretch film capacity in Saudi Arabia, now totalling 90,000 tons per year. Christian Malzner, Sales Manager at SML, described the PowerCast line as “an ultra-high-performance stretch film extrusion line perfectly suited to this market’s needs in terms of quality and quantity.”
3P Gulf Group’s sister company, Gulf Manufacturers, located in 6th October City, Egypt, will house the new SmartCast line. This expansion will raise the site’s capacity to 50,000 tons of premium stretch film annually. The SmartCast line, with its 3-meter width, offers high output and maximum flexibility. Notably, it features a chill roll unit with a positioning system, ensuring the reproducibility of the casting position and the precise repetition of all process parameters.
Ali Hashim, the founder of 3P, underlined the importance of their partnership with SML, stating, “Customers and consumers today are demanding higher quality products, thus we decided to invest in machinery from SML due to the high product quality and the reliability of SML – which is our partner for more than 25 years. We expect that this investment will further extend our leading position as a global stretch film supplier.”