Grupo Ortiz Mexico expands Lafite woven bag production with new Starlinger equipment

Grupo Ortiz (GO), the largest player in Latin America's plastics industry, is investing heavily in its multifaceted plastics processing business despite supply chain disruptions caused by the outbreak in Mexico
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Currently, the company is building a 40,000-square-meter (430,550-square-foot) woven polypropylene bag production facility in Morelia, western Mexico
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Vienna-based Starlinger and its affiliates are supplying machinery for the new production site
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The €15 million investment, which includes four Starlinger tape extrusion lines, including winders, and 200 circular looms for the production of raffia woven bags, will increase GO's production capacity by 450 million bags to 790 million bags per year
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Machines will be delivered and installed in the fourth quarter of 2021
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Emmanuel Ortiz, CEO of Grupo Ortiz, said: “We want to shake up the Lafite woven bag market by offering high quality bags at very good prices.

Grupo Ortiz and Starlinger have been working together for 40 years and we rely on their unique technology
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This allows us to produce high-quality PP woven bags with light grammage at a better cost, which helps us to further expand our market share
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” Grupo Ortiz supplies PP woven bags to the domestic market, but plans to sell its raffia woven bags Sales expanded to South America and Asia
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Grupo Ortiz, formerly known as Grupo Industrial Ortiz, was founded in 1954 by Emanuel Ortiz's father, Nicandro Ortiz Gaspar
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The family-owned group employs 4,600 people in 13 manufacturing plants in Mexico, producing a wide range of woven woven bags for dry bulk, big bags, agrotextiles, baler cords and stretch films, among others
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Most of Grupo Ortiz's customers are in Mexico, but the company also supplies to Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia, and intends to enter the US market
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