Royal glass factory
Mr. Saad Kolak, the great visionary of the Kolak Group sees an opportunity to supply glass bottles to the domestic market, and has since planned and formed AL-Malakeya Glass manufacturing company, a subsidiary of the Royal Can Making Company.
“There is currently no container glass factory today in Iraq” said Mr. Saad Kolak. “There are 40 million people in Iraq so there are huge demands for glass, particularly now with the focus on the environment and efforts to minimize plastic consumption. Glass use is expected to grow more in future. Glass is currently imported into Iraq from neighboring countries and transportation costs are extremely high, as well as customs costs. This has pushed us to accelerate the construction of the glass plant” continued Mr. Saad Kolak.
The food industry is gaining importance from the Government and is expected to be one of the most important components of the national economy in the near future. The majority of glass manufactured at the site will be for domestic use but the company may export in future. Royal Can Making Company has collaborated with German engineering company cm.project.ing.
The design capacity of the plant in the first phase will be 520 tons/day through one oven. The second furnace will be built in February 2024, which will increase production capacity to about 1000 tons per day. And the third and fourth furnace will be following.
The facility will have best available technology (BAT) from the industry. The raw material sourcing and sand processing plant is being considered to be built inside the facility.
In addition, the industrial complex is planned for future expansion of a steel factory and a power generation plant to generate power up to 150MW is also foreseen in the layout.
In addition there will be modern residential building on the site of the glass plant for overseas suppliers.
