Klingele Paper & Packaging Group is continuing its expansion in West Africa with a new sheet plant near Dakar, Senegal. Production is expected to start in summer 2022 and will initially see the creation of some 45 jobs. Klingele’s efforts here have received financial support from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG). The total investment is expected to be around €7.5m, of which €5m is coming from DEG.
Klingele has been present in Mauritania since 2013, where it now has two production facilities that focus on packaging for customers from the fishing sector and industry. Soon, the Diamniadio industrial estate near Dakar’s new port will be home to a new plant with two production lines, where sheets of corrugated board from Klingele’s Tenerife-based subsidiary Klingele Embalajes Canarias will be converted into finished packaging. The production hall has already been completed; during the first semester of 2022, Klingele will install a four-colour casemaker with a three-colour Ward rotary die-cutter and five Boix box erectors. The packaging will predominantly be used in agriculture as well as in the fish industry and the wider food sector. The plant will start off with a production capacity of 4,000 tonnes; however, expansion of the site is already being planned as volumes grow. Klingele’s long-term objective is to cover West African markets from Morocco to Gabon.
