Keryas and Al Karama sign MoU for USD 12m Oman tissue mill
Keryas Paper Industry and Al Karama Hypermarket Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a USD 12m, 20,000-tonne-a-year tissue mill in Phase 7 of Sohar Industrial City, Oman, through a jointly owned vehicle, Sohar Paper Products LLC. The project will use tissue machinery sourced from Taiwan, with engineering by India's C2C Consultancy, and targets commercial start-up by the end of 2027. It extends Keryas's existing 150,000-tonne kraft paper business, which supplies fluting and testliner for packaging, into domestic tissue production for Oman and the wider Gulf.
Why this mattersA Gulf kraft paper producer diversifying into tissue signals local substitution of imported grades and broader paper capacity build-out in Oman.
- Keryas Paper Industry and Al Karama Hypermarket Group signed an MoU for a USD 12m tissue mill in Sohar Industrial City, Oman.
- The planned facility has capacity of 20,000 tonnes a year and is being developed via joint venture Sohar Paper Products LLC.
- Commercial operations are targeted for the end of 2027.
- Machinery and tissue manufacturing technology will be sourced from Taiwan; India's C2C Consultancy will handle engineering and design.
- Keryas already operates a 150,000-tonne-a-year kraft paper mill producing fluting and testliner.
- Al Karama operates 15 hypermarkets in Oman and has an existing retail packaging relationship with Keryas.
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