Tissue and its bi-products are now entering into common man's house in this part of the world. Perception is changing in the mindset of the population. demand is souring, and supply is not able to match it locally
More and more tissue products are entering into the market, good quality products always reap harvest in this region. There is an upward trend seen in the local producers, by upgrading themselves with most moderiV equipment and production facilities.
Abdullatif Badinjki, Partner and General Manager at Halabi Carton, a company that is based in Syria and that produces paperboard and greyboard, said : "Paper Arabia is giving the opportunity to the professional visitors to enable them to meet with new potential customers and this is what we searched for in Paper Arabia 2009 with its 2nd version and we succeeded to have".
Rajesh Saigal, Business Development Manager, Buckman Laboratories Asia, based in Singapore and specialized in specialty chemicals confirmed that Paper Arabia 2009 is a show where it gathers a big number of customers of the Middle East area and this was the reason of the participation of Buckman Asia in this event.
Nawaf Reslam, General Manager of Al Borg Company for Paper Industries a company that produces tissue paper based in Libya, said that he visited Paper Arabia 2009 and checked on the latest technology related to the Paper Industry."The Exhibition opened the gate to meet with some new resources for virgin pulp and to meet with other suppliers to the board mills", Reslam confirmed.