Ecopack

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Ecopack Ltd is a PET Bottles blowing company having largest share in Pakistan. Ecopack has a blowing capacity of over 200 million bottles per year.

[edit] Brief Background:

Ecopack Limited (EPL) is the largest manufacturer of PET Bottles in Pakistan supplying mainly to the (CSD) and Mineral Water Industries. EPL was incorporated as a private limited company in August 1991.The first factory is located at Hattar Industrial Estate, NWFP province, to benefit both from various tax incentives and the strategic proximity to the Punjab & to the emerging Central Asian markets. Although the main project investment was for the manufacture of PET preforms and bottles targeting the growing carbonated soft drink (CSD) industry in Pakistan, a small part of the investment envisaged a plastic bag-making unit to meet the needs of the industries in the North. Subsequently in 1992 EPL was converted into a public limited company and was successfully listed at the Karachi Stock Exchange in March 1994. In 1999 Ecopack set-up its second factory for blowing PET bottles in SITE, Karachi to meet growing demand. Through additional investment in new plant & equipment, EPL has more than doubled its production capacity in 2001.

EPL was set-up with the active support & guidance of Pepsi International in Pakistan as a vendor of international standards for the supply of PET bottles to the Carbonated Soft Drink (CSD) industry. This valuable assistance ensured the achievement of high quality, consistent and reliable production of PET bottles capable of successfully performing in the harsh heat, transport and retail conditions of Pakistan. EPL procured highly sophisticated and modern plant & equipment from the best machinery manufacturers of Germany, UK and U.S.A. In order to obtain the best quality and output in the most cost–efficient manner, EPL with the help of International consultants and experts on PET bottles & preforms, INTER-TECH LTD., USA and the technical advice of Pepsi-Cola International, USA, procured the 2-stage technology for separate manufacture of bottles and preforms versus the single-stage technology of producing both preforms and bottles in the same injection & blow-molding cycle on one machine. The latter is a slow process in comparison to the 2-stage process and is not technically and commercially feasible for high output low-cost manufacture of bottles required to meet the high-volume demand of the CSD and Mineral Water markets worldwide.[1]