{"id":3606,"date":"2025-12-18T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/afghan-iranian-investors-cellophane-factory-balkh\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:45:15","slug":"afghan-iranian-investors-cellophane-factory-balkh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/afghan-iranian-investors-cellophane-factory-balkh\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan and Iranian Investors Sign Deal to Build Cellophane Factory in Balkh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A memorandum of understanding has been signed between Afghan and Iranian investors to establish a factory producing plastic food packaging and cellophane in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan\u2019s northern Balkh province. The project carries an investment value of five million US dollars.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agreement, the factory will be built in one of the industrial zones of Mazar-i-Sharif and will focus on manufacturing packaging materials used for food products\u2014items that are widely utilized in Afghanistan\u2019s domestic markets.<\/p>\n<p>Investors stated that the project could enhance industrial activity and strengthen economic cooperation between entrepreneurs from both countries, while also reducing Afghanistan\u2019s reliance on imported packaging materials.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its strategic location and access to trade routes, Balkh province has become a key hub for industrial and commercial investment in Afghanistan in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan and Iranian investors agree to build a $5M cellophane and food packaging factory in Mazar-i-Sharif, aiming to boost trade ties and reduce imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}