# Eroğlu Global to build $175M carton and packaging plant in Egypt's SCZone

Eroğlu Global Holding signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a carton and packaging factory in Qantara West Industrial Zone, with a $175 million investment and about 2,000 direct jobs. The plant will span 70,000 square meters.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2026-01-20
- Where: Qantara West Industrial Zone, Egypt
- Value: $175.0M
- Jobs: 2,000
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 10 million sterile 1-liter cartons and 75,000 cardboard boxes per day; 400 metric tons per year of carton sheets
- Products: Tetra Pak packaging, carton boxes, paperboard sheets
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Eroğlu Global Holding](https://endata.com/companies/13920.md)
- [Suez Canal Economic Zone](https://endata.com/companies/13025.md) (partner)
- [SCZone](https://endata.com/companies/13215.md) (partner)
- [Eroğlu Global Holding](https://endata.com/companies/13920.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [forbesmiddleeast.com](https://forbesmiddleeast.com/industry/business/turkiyes-eroglu-global-to-set-up-%24175m-packaging-factory-in-egypts-sczone), 2026-01-20: "The factory, to be established with an investment of $175 million, will span an area of 70,000 square meters (sqm)"
- [turkiyetoday.com](https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/turkiyes-eroglu-to-build-175m-packaging-plant-in-egypts-qantara-west-3213271), 2026-01-21: "The $175 million investment marks the company’s first foray into the packaging industry and its fourth industrial venture within the zone."
- [packaging-gateway.com](https://www.packaging-gateway.com/news/sczone-eroglu-packaging-facility/), 2026-01-21: "Entailing an investment of $175m, the 70,000m² site will produce Tetra Pak units, carton boxes, and sheets."
- [packagingmea.com](https://www.packagingmea.com/eroglu-global-and-sczone-sign-agreement-for-175-million-packaging-plant-in-qantara-west/), 2026-01-26: "Turkish firm EROĞLU Global Holding A.Ş. has signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) to build a carton and packaging factory in Egypt's Qantara West Industrial Zone."
- [packaging-journal.de](https://packaging-journal.de/en/sczone-awards-contract-for-packaging-plant-with-an-investment-volume-of-175-million-dollars/), 2026-01-26: "The project involves investments totalling USD 175 million and is one of the largest industrial settlements in the zone."
- [meobserver.news](https://meobserver.news/business-economix/industry-insights/2026/01/26/175mn-turkish-packaging-plant-deepens-egypts-export-manufacturing-push/), 2026-01-26: "The project will span 70,000 square metres and is designed to produce 10 million one-litre aseptic cartons annually, 75,000 cardboard boxes per day, and 400,000 tonnes of corrugated cardboard sheets per year."
- [portseurope.com](https://www.portseurope.com/sczone-signs-eroglu-packaging-factory-deal-for-sokhna-port/), 2026-02-25: "The plant will rise in Qantara West Industrial Zone and support logistics and container traffic supply chains."

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