Final Products

Chopped fiberglass for insulation panel and water pipes production – and other products

Required Inputs

Glass waste, limestone, sand, soda ash, borax, and binder coating

Competing Products

Virgin glass-based fiberglass

Complexity – Type of Process

Mechanical and thermal processing

Technology

Separation, crushing, melting, meshing, binding, polymerizing, cooling, and packaging

Equipment and Material

Crushers, grinders, color separators, oven, masher, binder, and chopper

Human Resources

Machine Operators, labor for manual operations, and drivers

Competitive Advantage

High margins in recycling waste glass to fiberglass, competitive selling price compared to substitutes, high value added on glass waste, availability of high-quality cost competitive sand and limestone, ingredients needed in addition to the waste glass to produce fiberglass

Barriers to Entry

Securing a continuous level of glass waste supply to satisfy production demand, high CAPEX

Key Stakeholders

Informal waste collectors who provide segregated and washed glass, pre-processing firms that provide crushed glass or powdered- factories using
fiberglass in their products

Special Regulations

NA

Risks and Mitigation Measures

Ability to meet daily demand for glass waste that may lead to interruption of production, which leads to high losses. Risk of unstable supply of gas to keep the furnace working. Mitigation measures are having a high inventory that can cover many days of operations even if the waste supply was not stable and having a stock of gas cylinders to use in case of a natural gas cut

Revenue Stream

Sale of fiberglass for insulation panels, water pipes, or other uses

CAPEX

The inputs and technology would cost an average of 32M EGP

Note: This CAPEX represents the indicative investment size, however, this investment opportunity can grow in implementation to a larger-sized investment.

Investment Size

Medium (between 5-50M EGP)

Location of Supply

Supply is mostly in urban centers and large cities

Preferred operation regions

Assiut, Alexandria, Cairo – (Suez if the focus is on export)