# Pegas Nonwovens to build nonwovens plant near Cape Town, South Africa

Pegas Nonwovens will build a new nonwovens plant near Cape Town, South Africa, investing ZAR 1 billion (approx. CZK 2 billion) and creating several hundred jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-01-20
- Where: near Cape Town, South Africa
- Value: $74.0M (1.00B ZAR)
- Jobs: 300
- Status: announced
- Products: nonwoven textiles based on polypropylene and polyethylene
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [Pegas Nonwovens](https://endata.com/companies/21568.md)

## Sources

- [patria.cz](https://www.patria.cz/zpravodajstvi/3466682/pegas-nonwovens-investuje-dve-miliardy-do-tovarny-v-jar-zamestna-stovky-lidi.html), 2017-01-20: "Uvažujeme o instalaci nejmodernější linky, která vzhledem k nižším investičním výdajům, nižším nárokům na infrastrukturu a nižší kapacitě představuje vhodnou platformu pro etablování se na nových, rozvíjejících se trzích."
- [euro.cz](https://www.euro.cz/clanky/pegas-nonwovens-investuje-v-jar-dve-miliardy-nabere-stovky-lidi-1333178/), 2017-02-28: "Česká textilka Pegas Nonwovens postaví nový závod v Kapském městě."
- [engineeringnews.co.za](https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/r13bn-atlantis-fabrics-manufacturing-facility-to-create-200-jobs-2017-03-01), 2017-03-01: "A R1.3-billion fabrics manufacturing facility is to be built in Atlantis, in the Western Cape, creating 200 jobs."

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