Plastic and rubber businesses

Black Insulating Tape Making Plant

1.         Product Description:  This is a very handy plastic-like item which finds usage in a wide number of applications.  It consists of adhesive tape which is a good insulator and can be applied to an exposed conducting surface in order to from an insulating layer over it.  Black insulating tape is used in electrical fitting works, with cables, electrical motors and other electrical equipment and instruments.

2.         Rationale: Any place where there are electrical installations, one finds black insulating tapes.  Given this, it is easy to imagine the quantity of black insulating tapes being used in the country; it is probably in the hundreds of thousands of rolls.  Again like so many other industrial products, black insulating tapes are imported for domestic consumption.  However, this product could easily be produced in the country.  If promoted effectively investors in the Amhara region could produce insulating tapes for the national and regional market.

Fiber Glass Reinforced Plastic Products Making Plant

1. Product Description:- Fiber glass reinforced plastics are relatively a new group of man-made material used for construction and are essentially a combination of resinous polymers (thermosetting) with strengthening materials such as glass fibers, asbestos, etc. The combination is usually maintained by the impregnation processes. Woven clothes of fiber glass or non-woven mats are impregnated by reinforcing materials to a hard and infusible state under conditions ranging from room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The plastics are unique in nature. The products made from these plastics are light in weight, they contain high tensile strength corrosion restance chemically inert as well as high heat, electrical and sound insulation resistant. Road and railway tanker bodies, bulk cargo containers, refrigerated containers, car bodies, helicopter rotors, bath tubs, sinks, decorative translucence building panels and roofing sheets are some sheets are some specific products made from fiber glass reinforced plastics. 

Medical facilities making Plant

1.         Product Description: Like conventional syringes, plastic syringes are used for injections muscular as well as intravenous but the difference is that disposable syringes and needles are disposed of immediately after using them once.  So every injection requires a new syringe and needle.  Disposable syringes are made of plastics with nozzle and sold with needles.  Disposable needles have plastic holders and they are presterilized and do not require any sterilization while using them.  However, they cannot resist high temperature.

2.         Rationale: Medical facilities are expanding in the Amhara Region though health coverage of the Region is the lowest among the major regions of the country.  With 19 million people living in the Region, millions of syringes and needles are used every year in the Region.  With HIV/AIDs being a major health hazard in the Region, the use of disposable syringes and needles has become an absolute must for people to protect themselves against diseases like HIV/AIDs.  Given the health situation of the country, one could have expected to find a factory which produces the above products established by the government. Providing disposable syringes and needles should have been considered as an emergency situation.  Having more than 25 percent of the country’s population, the Amhara Region should promote the establishment of a plant which can produce disposable syringes and needles.

PVC Cables Making Plant

1.         Product Description:  PVC cables are of many types.  They include (a) PVC insulated service drop wire which consists of three PVC insulated twined wires and is used for service connections; (b) twin twisted PVC insulated cord consisting of electrical appliances, (c) flat type PVC insulated cord consisting of two parallel vinyl insulated wire for electrical appliances (d) round type insulated cord with a twin twisted PVC coated wire sheathed with round PVC sheathing.  (e) PVC insulated overhead wire with 20 to 30 core wires of about 0.5 mm diameter twisted together and covered with PVC (f) PVC insulated control cable for electrical appliances, low voltage distribution, indoor telephone wire, wiring of switch boards and low tension cables for automobiles.

2.         Market Potential:  Domestic production of PVC cable (electric wires) between 2000 and 2004 was on average 13.060 million meters per year.  The production of this product during the five year period ranged between 19.917 million meters in 2004 and 3.073 million meters in 2003.  Due to the rapid expansion of the building construction industry, domestic production of PVC cables does not satisfy the ever increasing demand for this product.  As a result some special types of PVC cables are being imported.  In addition, PVC cables used for electrical appliances are not produce in the country and they are imported.  The Amhara Region roughly consumes about twenty percent of the PVC cable need of the country.  Its share of consumption from domestic PVC production was about 2.612 million meters per year between 2000 and 2004.  Since there is no plant which produces PVC cable in the Region, all the PVC cable requirement of the Region is imported from Addis Ababa.  The existing level of demand for PVC cables in the Region can absorb the production of a small PVC cable making plant to be established in the Region.

Synthetic Marble Producing Plant

1. Product Description: synthetic marble which is resin binding with an appropriate filler extender is an imitated substitute for quarry marble. Synthetic marble products are industrially processed marble like imitation products manufactured from composite chemical like polyester and inorganic materials such as marble powder, limestone, granite, sand, etc. These products have advantages such as longer life, better varieties of colors, greater manufacturing flexibility and shorter production time. These “man-made marble” are used mainly for commercial buildings, interior decorations, sanitary fixtures, institutional premises, etc. Due to their refractory and heat resistant characteristics, synthetic marble products are used for hearth construction as well. 
2. Market Potential: Synthetic marbles have been introduced to the Ethiopian market during the last ten years. During this time, the use of synthetic marbles has increased quite substantially in all major urban centers of the country. Practically all sanitary fittings and interior decorations in big building are made of synthetic marbles. As building construction of all types is expanding in every part of the country, the demand for synthetic marble is also expanding. The unit price of synthetic marble is much lower than the price of natural or quarry marble. This is a major factor to increase the demand for synthetic marble. According to a recent study, synthetic marble is projected to have a demand of 435000 kgs. per year in 2006. 

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