Basra Opens First Plastic Factory international standards

Basra Opens First Plastic Factory international standards

 09/16/2016

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It opened a new plastics factory highest specifications in the city of Basra in southern Iraq, which produces plant, which cost more than $ 15 million in a wide range of products from plastic bags to pipes and hopes to reduce the country's need for imports.

The factory also includes the first production line in Basra for recycled products which converts plastic waste into new products.

Said Ali Gaspe head of the Investment Authority in Basra, said that "the factory produces all products entering the material (Alba.vi.sa) in manufactured starting from waste and medical bags, plastic pipes and agricultural plastic sheeting and houses bags," pointing out that "the project is ISO certificate the card high productivity and all production lines making him a strong contender, and perhaps can be controlled on the domestic market to maintain and possibly beyond it to the markets to other governorates. " According to Reuters.

It has a factory primarily on four thousand square meters area of ​​the latest equipment and has four production lines.

It can produce 25 thousand tons of plastic products used in agriculture and other industrial purposes, and about ten thousand tons of oil and sewage pipes of various sizes annually.

Gaspe, adding that "this could be the mass production of the province of Basra to reach self-sufficiency with regard to plastic products."

"We need to study and database for the amount of production in the preservation or other governorates Which needs to be a resolution of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers either preventing virtually all import plastic materials if they cover production or prevent the import rate and control of imported materials so as to enhance the local economy."

Many of Iraq's factories and 260 factories either looted in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2003, or timeliness of, or located in regions plagued by unrest.

But Basra has benefited from greater numbers of local and foreign investors attracted by the relative stability in southern Iraq in the past few years.

Qais al-Khazali, says one investor Basra factory plastic "The factory is unique in the south of Iraq," adding that "the plant is the first of its kind in the province of Basra."

He continued that "the plant, which employs at least a hundred workers to support the needs of the state to curb the influx of cheap products to the country," Please tell us that the "factory to develop a plan to increase the number of employees to a lesbian."

The Iraqi government issued a five-year plan for economic development in 2013, it aims to diversify its sources of income away from oil and the development of the industrial sector in the country.

The plan calls for, which stretches from 2013 to 2017 to invest $ 357 billion in development projects across the country with a focus on five key sectors are construction, services, agriculture, education, transport and communications, and energy.