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In 1956 with a number of small machines,
National Paper Products Company (NPPC), or "Napco" as it
was then called, launched production of paper shopping bags in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With the increasing boom of the oil economy
in the 1970s, Napco expanded its focus to include production of multi-wall
sacks for the petroleum and construction industries, as well as plastic,
tissue and disposable products.
In the 1980s, given the corporate strategy of its mother company,
Indevco Group, Napco retained a country management function but
split into separate autonomous manufacturing facilities. NPPC continued
its paper production activities with such expanded product lines
as specialty paper bags, paper rolls, paper sheets, and core. Tissue,
consumer products, and flexible packaging activities were taken
over by specialized sister companies.
Today, NPPC and its sister paper companies around the world engage
in transnational cooperation through technical and human resource
exchange, procurement, and pooling of resources. As such, NPPC regularly
introduces new paper products for the Middle Eastern market place.
NPPC currently exports to neighboring Arabian Gulf countries, Jordan,
Iraq, Egypt, and Sudan. Expansion is underway in the other Middle
Eastern countries, as well as European countries and India.
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