MANAMA: Kuwait-based Abdul Razzaq Al Sane & Sons Group has invested 20 million euros in Bahrain to expand and upgrade its Nada Water bottling factory in the Mina Salman Industrial Area.
The company’s chairman and chief executive Jameel Al Sane told the GDN yesterday that the significant expansion and upgrade of facilities with a state-of-the-art production line makes it the largest bottled water factory in Bahrain and the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
The factory can now produce 45,000 bottles of water per hour, nearly eight times the 6,000 it was producing earlier.
Mr Al Sane said the lion’s share of the investment went into the installation of a new fully automated production line made by German firm KHS.
Based in Dortmund, Germany, KHS offers filling lines for glass and PET bottles, kegs, and cans for the beverage, food, and non-food industries.
The KHS line set up in Bahrain comprises the individual machines required to carry out all beverage production processes ranging from PET bottle production, filling, labelling, packing and palletising up to and including inspection and complete sanitising, said the company official.
Nada Water employs 100 staff of whom around 30 per cent are Bahraini, he added.
“Our mission is to provide premium drinking water at the lowest possible cost to its customers without sacrificing quality.”
The company was established in 1989 and was the first in the Middle East to introduce recyclable PET bottles under the Nada Water brand name, replacing the earlier PVC bottles.
The upgraded factory was inaugurated by Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister Zayed Alzayani yesterday who welcomed the investment inflow and the introduction of new technologies and processes.
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