Message from the President
Dear Colleagues in Paper and Packaging Industry,
The Arab Federation
for Paper ,Printing, and Packaging Industries, has always played a major role
over the years through book making, and throughout generations, the Federation has modeled a “main” element in the Arabia overall development by becoming the
principal mean for the transmission of knowledge, culture and civilization. Despite the impact of the
digital world, the damaged paper manufactures did not surrender yet and continue to play an important economical role nowadays . As an
Arab Federation, we are striving to keep up with economical development and to
highlight on all available assets.
The usage of paper and cardboard for packaging has surpassed the logistic role of ensuring safe delivery to the consumer, it has been upgraded to a so-called “silent seller” promoting
goods and contributing in several economical ways by boosting our exports, whilst we
are making sure to keep pace with the development of this industry, considering the importance it
represents projecting a good image of the Arab products reaching a wide variety
of consumers demands, and adding value to the product aiming to reach the
global market and creating jobs for our Arab youth.
Paper manufacturing has gained a growing importance, both locally and globally,
regarding its huge contribution in the recycling process, and being considered
as a major pillar in what’s known as “Green productions”, a backbone to
the “Green economy” globally, and an opportunity to expand our production.
To
our pride, a lot of Arab industrialists are owners to paper and packaging
industries across America, Europe, South America and all over Africa.
As mentioned, we are standing face to face with challenges and responsibilities
to meet the current and the future needs of our Arab markets and its
productions, in a way that can grant self-sufficiency by working on providing raw
materials particularly from waste paper, Yet being careful to
avoid exceeding our needs.
Dear colleagues, amongst all these potentials, challenges and opportunities, comes
the role of the Arab Federation as a meeting point between the coworkers. And
probably the best we can do during these critical times, is to get over
competition and join our forces to conquer the challenges and face globalization as strong united constitutions able to stand side by side and
empower each others, in order to avoid "dumping" by foreigner manufacturers from across the
globe, threatening our economy and the future of our youth, while our coalition is our
only salvation to address the substitute products.
Our strength relies on our
union, together we will be able to build a “promising future” for our youth and
provide them decent work opportunities.
US
We Are
The Federation consists of a group of public, private and mixed institutions, committees, federations, companies and offices incorporated in the Arab countries and operating in the field of manufacturing and trading paper, printing, wrapping and packaging industries as well other industrial varieties that are directly and complementarily related to the above mentioned industries. They are hereafter dominated called by "The Projects" for the purpose of the present regulations.
The Federation has a juristic personality and a legal capacity to undertake its mission and achieve its objectives. It is financially and administratively independent within the limit of the decisions taken by the Board of directors,
According to the concept of the said regulations, the term " paper industries" means the pulp and paper production as well as other processing industries in which paper becomes a component including printing, packaging and filling in different shapes and types.
History
The Federation consists of a group of public, private and mixed institutions, committees, federations, companies and offices
The Federation consists of a group of public, private and mixed institutions, committees, federations, companies and offices incorporated in the Arab countries and operating in the field of manufacturing and trading paper, printing, wrapping and packaging industries as well other industrial varieties that are directly and complementarily related to the above mentioned industries. They are here after dominated called by "The Projects" for the purpose of the present regulations.
The Federation has a juristic personality and a legal capacity to undertake its mission and achieve its objectives. It is financially and administratively independent within the limit of the decisions taken by the Board of directors.
According to the concept of the said regulations, the term " paper industries" means the pulp and paper production as well as other processing industries in which paper becomes a component including printing, packaging and filling in different shapes and types.
The federation aims to develop and develop technical, scientific, commercial and industrial relations among its members in the field of papermaking, printing, packaging and packaging
The federation aims to develop and develop technical, scientific, commercial and industrial relations among its members in the field of papermaking, printing, packaging and packaging, and setting policies and programs that contribute to achieving Arab development and partnership and industrial integration and establishing the Greater Arab Free Trade Area to reach the common Arab market and meet the current and future needs of these products. Industries at the Arab national level, in a manner that ensures achieving self-sufficiency and increasing the export capacity of Arab countries and their exits by all means that achieve its goals, including:
- To assist the Federation's members in marketing their products in the international and Arab markets
- To guarantee to the members the availability of raw materials, production requirements, intermediate and packaging materials at affordable prices and enhance its exchange amongst them, defeating obstacles that could hinder the achievements of these targets.
- To assist the members in elaborating their technical capacities through an administrative, financial, commercial, technical and
- environment rehabilitation of institutions.
- To increase the production sufficiency quantitatively and qualitatively for the employees working for the Federation's members and to encourage Arab skills exchange and offer assistance to the new Arab projects
- To provide the members with required statements, statistics, technical, economical and marketing information on the international and Arabic levels for the projects they will execute. To introduce them to the latest international development, offer and demand
- policies for the raw materials and the finished goods as well as to the production requirement.
- To contribute in establishing the Arab unified specifications that correspond to the international specifications.
- To assist the members in applying the international specifications related to manage and ensure quality in the design, development, production, composition, consultation and testing.
- To cooperate with all the Federations and the Arab, regional and international institutions.
- To establish institutions, colleges majored in teaching the science related to paper, printing and packaging industries and to adopt modern scientific programs to train competent executives in the industry's fields that have been initiated by the members of the
- Federation.
- To carry out researches and economical studies required by the industrial projects that are executed by the members and to facilitate their contact with expertise companies as well exchanging information amongst themselves in order to fulfill any member's
- requirements.
- To issue researches, studies and paper work as well as publications, magazines and periodical books that serve the Federation's objectives. To be part of conferences, Arab and international seminars related to the Federation's mission.
- To assist the members in putting into execution their new projects, to expand the ones in place and to encourage merging.
- Working on the Arab bodies in order to create combined Arabic companies to contribute in the Arab cooperation and complementarity in the field of paper, printing and packaging, industries as well as taking advantage of foreign companies.
- To back up the members in exporting their products.
- Upon the member's request, the Federation is entitled to intervene amicably to put an end to the accidental conflicts between embers or between a member and a third party. The Federation plays a part of an arbitrator once they have recourse to it for this purpose or takes part of other arbitrary tasks when it is requested to do so.