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Plastic and acrylic manufacturer Rubex<\/a> is restarting plans to build four new factories this year, after having put the expansion plans on ice due to covid-19, Chairman Magdy El Taher told the local press<\/a>. The new facilities include an acrylic recycling plant, a factory to recycle PET, and a wood-plastic composites recycling plant, and the company also plans to modernize and refurbish a solid surface product factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plastic and acrylic manufacturer Rubex is restarting plans to build four new factories this year, after having put the expansion plans on ice due to covid-19, Chairman Magdy El Taher told the local press. The new facilities include an acrylic recycling plant, a factory to recycle PET, and a wood-plastic composites recycling plant, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7255],"tags":[107,72,131,248,745],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-573483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manufacturing","tag-covid-19","tag-enterpriseam","tag-manufacturing","tag-national-bank-of-egypt","tag-plastic","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"ce34870b-6519-4d33-a09a-92e2efea3efe","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[573459],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nRubex to restart expansion plans after covid-caused delays - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/08\/06\/rubex-to-restart-expansion-plans-after-covid-caused-delays\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rubex to restart expansion plans after covid-caused delays\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Plastic and acrylic manufacturer Rubex is restarting plans to build four new factories this year, after having put the expansion plans on ice due to covid-19, Chairman Magdy El Taher told the local press. 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