The factory should be operational as from August. According to Pedro Mendes, of the commercial department of the Mozambican branch of Plasteuropa, the factory is being set up on a site currently occupied by a warehouse that distributes plastic packaging imported from Portugal.
Mendes said that building the Mozambican packaging factory is budgeted at 800,000 euros (about 1.2 million US dollars).
The project has been approved by the governments Investment Promotion Centre, said Mendes. Right now we are importing the machinery to begin production. The machines will arrive in Mozambique this month, and the packaging factory will begin its operations in August.
We already have some contracts with Mozambican companies who currently import the packaging we make in Portugal, he added.
Plasteuropa owns four factories in Portugal. The factory in Matola will be the first plant that the company has set up abroad.
We think that Mozambique is growing sufficiently to justify this investment, said Mendes. The country is a good business opportunity, and this will be our first factory outside of Portugal.
The factory will employ 30 workers in producing plastic bags and flexible plastic packaging for vegetables, rice and other foodstuffs.
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