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COMPANY PRESENTATION
Company presentation
Juniper Glass

SUPPLYING GLASS

PACKAGING

TO ETHIOPIAN AND

REGIONAL MARKETS

uniper Glass will be a pro- company is perfectly positioned hands-on project leadership, and
gressive glass bottle manu- to partner with customers and commercial ramp-up.
Jfacturing company with an deliver meaningful, relevant glass
initial planned capacity of 200 packaging solutions across a ETHIOPIAN MERGER AND
million glass bottles per year, range of different markets. REGULATORY APPROVALS
for supply to Ethiopian and Roha is a greenfield invest- Juniper Glass has received all
regional markets. The factory will ment company that develops new regulatory approvals necessary to
be situated in Debre Birhan, a businesses in Africa. The com- conclude the final investments
fast-growing city approximately pany invests in areas of “latent in its USD 70 million greenfield
130km from Addis Ababa. demand”, allowing it to build container glass factory.
Consol Glass is the leading fast-growing, profitable business- Juniper is working closely with
glass packaging manufacturer in es by addressing proven demand leading global glass engineers
Sub-Saharan Africa, with opera- with existing world-class technol- and equipment suppliers to build
tions in South Africa, Kenya, and ogy and business models. Roha a state-of-the-art factory, which
Nigeria. Consol Glass exports brings all elements of industrial will use the latest available tech-
glass packaging to more than project development under one nology in glass manufacturing.
17 African countries. Employing roof – starting with detailed The new factory, which is under
some 1,800 employees, Consol feasibility studies and business construction, will have the capac-
brings significant expertise to the plans, and spanning management ity to produce 60,000 tonnes of
glass packaging industry. The recruiting, capital structuring, glass annually, approximately 200

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