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Union Corrugated Packaging Industries is built to produce 4,500 tonnes of corrugated packaging a month at KEZAD, Abu Dhabi, for food, pharmaceutical and FMCG manufacturers. Set to be the largest corrugated packaging plant in Abu Dhabi and the southern emirates, it opens in 2027.
Union Corrugated Packaging Industries (UCPI) is a modern corrugated packaging manufacturer established by M.A.H.Y. Khoory Group at KEZAD, Abu Dhabi. Built as a purpose-designed, greenfield and state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, UCPI strengthens the Group's corrugated packaging capability alongside National Paper Industry (NPI), combining decades of experience in paper recycling and manufacturing with advanced production technology and customer-focused packaging design.
As part of the Group's integrated paper and packaging value chain, around 80% of the containerboard UCPI converts is supplied by Union Paper Mills (UPM), the Group's recycled paper manufacturer. On an advanced German corrugator, it is combined into high-quality corrugated board, then converted into a versatile range of packaging, including shipping cases, printed cartons, die-cut boxes, trays, wrap-around packaging, retail displays, promotional packaging, e-commerce mailers, partitions and dividers. An in-house packaging design department provides structural design and graphic development, so that each solution is tailored to the product, the brand, its handling, transport and storage, and its intended use.
From its site at KEZAD, between Khalifa Port and the Abu Dhabi–Dubai motorway, UCPI is positioned to serve manufacturers and businesses throughout the UAE and the wider region. Its target industries include fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, poultry and industry, where packaging must deliver reliable product protection, consistent performance and the hygiene standards of the product inside it.
For UCPI, packaging is more than a box: it is an essential part of its customers' supply chains. Its focus is on fit-for-purpose packaging that protects products, enhances their presentation, supports operational efficiency and meets the evolving needs of the industries it serves.
Behind NPI's production is an integrated M.A.H.Y. Khoory Group ecosystem. Each stage of the journey is supported by a dedicated Group company or division.
The Group's Recyclable Waste Management Division collects recovered paper every day from homes, malls, factories, warehouses and businesses across the UAE, around 37,000 tonnes a month, with Green Arabia contributing a further 2,000 tonnes from its customers. Greenland Transport, the Group's own fleet, delivers the bales to the mills.
At its mills in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UPM produces around a thousand tonnes of recycled containerboard a day: test liner for the flat faces of corrugated board, and fluting for its corrugated middle layer.
UCPI's packaging design department first specifies each order around the product it must carry, the weight it must bear and the journey it must make.
On the new German corrugator, fluting is bonded between liners to form corrugated board, which is then printed, die-cut and creased to shape.
Finally, the finished packaging is bundled on an automated line and dispatched to the customer.
Finished packaging is supplied to manufacturers across the UAE, where it is filled, stacked and shipped. Once it has served its purpose, it is recovered by the Group and returned to the mills as a valuable industrial raw material.
Together, these capabilities create a practical circular model: paper recovered in the UAE is transformed into containerboard at the Group's mills, manufactured into corrugated packaging and recovered again once it has served its purpose.
Born in the UAE.
Reborn for UAE industries.
This model supports the UAE's ambition to build a more competitive, resource-efficient and sustainable industrial economy. By converting containerboard manufactured in the UAE into packaging for UAE industry, UCPI keeps the complete packaging value chain within the country, in line with the Make it in the Emirates agenda.
The containerboard supplied by UPM is manufactured from recovered paper, with no reliance on virgin fibre, and is certified FSC Recycled under the mills' chain of custody.
The plant's boiler and chiller are fuelled by natural gas, and materials inside the building are handled by electric forklifts, keeping exhaust fumes out of the production hall.
Once corrugated packaging has served its purpose, it is collected by the Group's Recyclable Waste Management Division and returned to UPM as a valuable industrial raw material.
An effluent treatment plant on site treats the plant's production water so that it can be reused.
UCPI produces corrugated packaging for food and beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, industrial and e-commerce customers, in six principal formats.
The KEZAD facility was designed around corrugated packaging production, with hygiene, safety and consistency specified before construction began.
“UCPI is vertically integrated with the Group's paper mills at UPM, which will supply the majority of its containerboard. That gives our customers consistent quality and security of supply, and allows us to optimise the balance of paper, board strength and cost for every order.”
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