Cairo, Egypt, March 29, 2010. Porta Egypt, a subsidiary of Altea Packaging Group, expands into shrink sleeves by acquiring a new DCM sleeve machine. The DCM Sleeve is a high-speed sleeve forming and sealing machine for the production of shrinkable sleeves.

This investment aims at producing high quality shrinkable sleeve to feed a growing market, argues Mohamed Ibrahim, Chief Operations Officer of Porta and Rotopack. The new DCM sleeve machine is equipped with a nonstop rewinder and is able to produce 400 m/min. To achieve the quality requirements, DCM has designed, especially for this machine, a motorised unwind for keeping the web tension accurate. Furthermore, DCM has integrated an inline lay flat sleeve width reading with ultrasonic sensors. All the values are shown on the touch screen to make easier the operator supervision.

Gerard Lansade, Sales Director at DCM Group, highlights the successful partnership between Altea Packaging Group and its subsidiaries, and DCM Group. Since 25 years, there is a strong relation between both founders companies of Altea Packaging Group, Cogitel and Sied, and DCM Group. This relationship is increasing with the development of Altea Packaging group. We expect this fruitful collaboration to pursue long time again, he adds.

According to Slim Zeghal, CEO of Porta & Rotopack and of the Altea Packaging Group, shrink sleeves represent an exciting new trend in the world of packaging and a growing opportunity for converters. Almost 400t/year of shrink sleeves are produced in Cogitel (Tunisia), Porta and Rotopack (Egypt) facilities. Altea Packaging provides sleeves to a wide range of customers in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Senegal. In 2005, Altea Packaging received a "Prestige Helio Award" from the French Photogravure association "Pro Hélio" for a promotional Coca-Cola Sleeve based on the Nancy Ajram advertising campaign. Altea Packaging is in constant development and continuously researches innovations to improve consumer-friendly impact, marketing aspects, printability, machinability and costs reduction, he adds.

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About Altea Packaging
Altea Packaging is the flexible packaging leader in the MENA region with an industrial presence in Europe. With an installed capacity of over 40 thousand tons yearly, more than 780 employees and 9 industrial plants ranging from Morocco to Egypt, including France and Tunisia, where the group was given birth, Altea Packaging has the know-how to compete with that of the biggest international companies in the sector. Altea Packaging is the unique actor to provide proximity service to all multinationals throughout the region and all companies looking for a service quality from a reliable supplier having a long experience in the field.

About Porta Egypt and Rotopack Misr
Porta Egypt for packaging materials (S.A.E) is the Egyptian leader in rotogravure printed flexible packaging. It was established in 1995 and is now part of Altea Packaging. It has a rich portfolio of top international and national clients in Egypt. With its subsidiary Rotopack Misr (established in 1985), it has an annual capacity of over 10 thousand tons, a turnover in excess of $36M and a workforce of 310 people. The two plants, located in 6th of October and 10th of Ramadhan cities, cover a total area of 20 thousand m2 and cover more than 25% of the Egyptian market needs.

Contact:
contact@altea-packaging.com

Contact:
Ayman Abdelalim,
Sales Director at Porta & Rotopack
Email: a.abdelalim@portaegypt.com
For more information: http://www.altea-packaging.com/

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