Talaat A.

Kader
[email protected]
01145588800 - 01112969333

Plant General Manager

Strategic Management Supply chain Operations Management
BOPP Cast Films FMCG Plastic films

Profit driven, results oriented ,highly accomplished executive-level new business and startup expert with more than
15 years of experience in operations, and factories management of BOPP, Cast Film and plastics related
technologies as extrusio, injection , injection moulding, blow injection moulding and plastic films. Proven record of
starting new businesses and adept at escalating sales performance and improving compeititve positioning. Skilled in
management and direct supervison of the following departments:
1. Financial planning &control
2. Financial analysis& budgeting
3. Production and operations
4. Quality, laboratories and EHS
5. Supply chain and logistics
6. Marketing &sales
7. Human resoucrces and training
I have comprehensive knowledge of system and processes improvement in very complicated factories along with
solid leadership, communication, mentorship, motivation, and presentation skills. Promote cutting-edge Lean
Manufacturing, Six Sigma Quality, Supply Chain Management, Kanban, and Continuous Improvement initiatives
to build high quality, cost-effective operations while reducing net product costs, inventory expenses, and labor
expenditures. Proven experience in budgeting, financial statement analysis and financial planning in addition to
P&L management.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Customer care &support Business startup skills New & Startup business
Focused Leadership Risk Management Process Improvement
Business & Sales Planning Strategic planning & alliance cross organization change
Business Development Financial planning& control EHS Management
 Supply chain management R&D and process design P&L Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TSI- Egypt 1/5/2020 --- Now
Business Director
Carbon –TSI is international company for trading and manufacturing of various plastic containers. It is the exclusive
agent of Wells plastic-UK, Biosphere- USA, and Ochem- china and Indian Kandoi. The major activity is Plastic
additives and TiO2 as master batch for plastic and additives for coating.

NEP for petrochemical industries 1/1/2018 --- 1/5/2020

Head of Operations
NEP is a multinational company for production and manufacturing of various plastic containers. The main product is
injection PP, LDPE, HDPE UN certified XL-ring drums for chemicals and viscous solution in addition to open top
drums, Pails and jerry cans and IBCs for chemicals, oilfields solutions. I have the following achievements:
1. Modified the business plan and operations strategy.
2. Set the strategic operations planning and tactic production planning.
3. Maintenance and capacity planning according to the sales and marketing forecasting.
4. Set the marketing targets according to the overall corporate business plans.
5. Forecasting the annual demands in all markets in Egypt and Middle East
6. I have made intensive market survey and solved tons of problems of the existing customers and created new
markets and increased the market share within the first 6 months
7. Setting the operations planning for production and maintenance in addition to dispatches.
 8. Established the strategic marketing system based on creating new markets and providing technical support for
existing customers.
Lufkin Middle East (GE oil &Gas) 12/2007 –5/2018
Lufkin Middle East is a branch of American Lufkin Industries, Houston, Texas. The scope of this branch is sales and
distribution of artificial lift equipments, and providing field service in installation and maintenance of beam pumping
unit, PCP and ESP in oil fields in Egypt, Oman, and Middle East and North Africa.
Operations Manager
I have transferred the company from sales office in Egypt into prominent Business and service center with market share
over 90% of the Egyptian market and multimillion dollars turnover. Managed the company’s supply chain system which
included customer orders, international and local material purchasing, material manufacturing, strategic outsourcing,
warehousing, inventory management, logistics, shipping to customers and end by installing and service processes inside
the customer oilfield. The position required 30-50% travel to more than 25 locations throughout Egypt and Oman
oilfields. I have taken the following responsibilities:

1. Led the management team in setting the departmental objectives and targets and KPIs to measure the
performance against the overall corporate strategy.
2. Planning customer demand and order requirement planning through accurate market research and sales
forecasting.
3. Financial and budgetary planning and performing P&L analysis and ratios analysis.
4. Managing downhole crew skills formation and training and scheduling tasks along the oilfield sites and
according to customer requirements
5. Supervision on the quality plan of service crews and setting the procedures, training and tools.
6. I had set the system of process functional safety and measuring the layers of Protection analysis LOPA
around the workover drilling and around well head and sucker rod pump.
7. Planning workforce and operations crews according to customers and contract requirements
8. Participated in the recruitment and selection of skilful service staff to improve the level of service provided
to all level of customers.
9. Provided technical and managerial training for all the staff the directly in contact with customers.
10. Representing the company in technical and quality conferences with contractors and owners in Egypt,
Oman and United States and worked with Marketing and Engineering on new product development.
11. Marketing and sales planning of the identified target market of artificial lift in Egypt and Middle East. The
major market share in Egypt is beam pumping units and plunger lift.
12. Set the system of installation, periodic inspection and maintenance of the beam pumping units and safety
instrumented system SIS and safety instrumented functions and by this way we guaranteed continuous
operation, reliability and durability and achieved safety according to ALARP.
13. Material requirements planning MRP and CRP for material warehousing and warehouse management from
receiving ad picking products to load and shipping to customer warehouse.
14. Planning the warehouse capacity and inventory levels and setting the safety stock level and reorder point.
15. Managing the logistic process that included inbound and outbound logistics.
16. Planning the transportation schedule and transportation costs and coordinating the break bulk and cross
dock shipments.
17. Implemented formal tender and contract management system to improve proposal win rate from base line
20 % to target 80%
18. Involved in contract review and contract negotiation with customers and suppliers.
19. Improved supplier and customer relationships management CRM, SRM by using information system.
20. Led the projects of HAZOP in performing product risk and managing product safety design..
21. Involved in financial analysis of the operations and service performance and issued the operations financial
indicators and ratios to demonstrate the financial and economic efficiency of orders.
22. Provided Technical assistance to customers as needed, s u p p o r t e d trade shows, maintenance seminars
and conferences throughout Egypt, Oman, Dubai and USA.
23. I have led the team of operations and engineering in the application of the safety design of the product
which represented high competitive advantage in addition to regulations compliance.
24. Scoped comprehensive business process review and improvement program to result in Lufkin Middle East
becoming ISO 9001:2008, 2015, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and ISO 92001 certified and API Q1
Key Achievements:
1. Transformed the company from 2 long term contracts with major customers into a service center for
pumping unit delivery and service for more than 28 customers that covered two thirds of the Egyptian
market.
2. I have also transformed the turnover from $20 million in 2008 to $ 60 million in 2014
3. I have implemented the company manual and process picture mapping as Lufkin documented procedures
applied in all our service operations.
4. Won the largest tender in Lufkin history of delivery, installation, operations and maintenance of Sucker rod
pumps and PCP for 15 years in Oman oilfields for PDO.
5. Achieving the highest market share in the Egyptian market with a ratio of 95% through providing high
level customer support by a carefully selected service team.
6. Achieving high margin and high ROI through strategic business Alliance with Petrojet ( state owned
company for oil and gas projects) for manufacturing 80% of beam pumping unit, which resulted in reduced
product cost by 30%, reduced order delivery lead time by 10% and reduced order cycle time by 15%
7. I have led the process of integrating the supplier with GE process through reviewing and integrating
engineering drawings, Petrojet quality level, EHS system and logistics system.
8. Reduced 30 % of the transportation and logistics costs by partnership with approved vehicle, forklifts,
trailers and crane suppliers. Application of EHS system on all contracted vehicles, cranes, and warehousing
processes.

Egyptian Polypropylene Woven bags co. ASEC 11/2006 – 12/2007

EPBC is a branch of ASEC group for cement projects and its scope is raffia grade PP bags manufacturing
for cement packaging.
General Manager
My main roles and responsibilities were to re-organization and re- operation of the company after shutdown due to technical
and managerial problems. Developed short and long-term strategy, and partnered with executive personnel to align strategies
with corporate goals. Managed vital accounts and provided expertise for supply chain management, pricing, and compliance
issues. My role was also new customer contact and introducing new products on the same production lines to create new
markets.
Key Achievements:
1. Performed risk management to identify business uncertainties that led to business shutdown. All
channels and partners participated in the risk assessment and a collective risk portfolio had been
established.
2. Launched full survey and full analysis of the extended supply chain that affected supply chain flow that
led to factory shutdown.
3. I have launched full process of re-engineering that included restructuring and reorganization of
production, logistics and quality department..
4. I have performed gap analysis to identify the Actual performance and the required standard
performance from productivity, efficiency, quality, profit margin, inventory level, logistics cost and
ROI point of view.
5. Reviewed and qualified new the raw materials suppliers which included PP, PE, master batch and
additives which produce high quality excellence that meet customer requirements and exceed customer
expectations and minimize the waste, returns and recycles.
6. Qualification and certification of spare parts supplier to maintain the stopped machines and reduce the
bottlenecks.
7. Maintenance of the extruders and cooling utilities and the water system which feeds the chillers and
cooling towers to overcome the problem of thickness variation which was the root cause of waste and
losses that lead to factory shutdown. This step saved LE.10000000 /month.
8. I have initiated lean management principles to reduce waste and improve quality. Immediately
identified LE 2000.000 saving from extruder, spinning and slitting operation in addition to saving of
indirect costs while simultaneously broadening capabilities.
9. I have performed comprehensive market analysis and market survey for identification of new target
market for cement Polypropylene bags in Egypt and Middle East and Arab world.
10. I have lead the R&D and production team in the process of new product design using the same production
line, planning, production and verification and validation of the product in the market.
Alcoa CSI- Egypt 3/2004– 11/2006
Alcoa CSI Egypt is a branch of the American multinational Alcoa.. The company specialized in the
manufacturing of polypropylene and polyethylene closures for beverage and water by using compression
molding techniques.

Technical Manager
I have worked in cross functional team to establish the company in Egypt from scratch and participated in
all startup processes that included plant layout, construction, material procurement, machine
commissioning, machine installation, operations, developing and implementation of standard operating
procedures for production, operation, and quality and product design. I have received formal training on
Alcoa business management from USA, Mexico, Spain and Bahrain.
Key Achievements:
1. I have participated in the cross functional team and committee of selecting the construction contractors,
participating in setting the layout design.
2. I have full responsibility of machine distribution and commissioning and decommissioning.
3. I have the responsibility of regulatory affairs in safety, environment and all related issues with civil defense
and environmental authorities.
4. Full supervision on machine installation and operations in the startup phase.
5. I have set the raw materials specs that comprise PP, PE, PVC, Additives, inks and solvents and performed all testing
to select the best vendors. I have successfully qualified local suppliers for Polypropylene which saved 20% of raw
materials costs.
6. I had the responsibility of designing and formulation of new products and validated with our major multinational
customers.
7. I have solved lot tons of technical problems within customer’s factories especially in bottling process.
8. achieved market share of 95% of the Egyptian market directly after start-up due to high quality of product
and customer support.
9. I have established standardized process set ups allowing production processes to be more consistent and
proceduralized the operations to be acceptable by customers during customer audit.
10. I have implemented QEHS management system, GMP and industrial hygiene system to meet FDA specs and
customer requirements as food contact packaging.
11. Application of lean /six sigma tools such as process mapping, statistical analysis and root cause analysis that
resulted in the following:
 Scrap rate reduction
 Production efficiency Increased to 95%of the standard.
12. Due to my technical background, I had worked process owner to provide customer support and customer
advice and product verification and validation within customer premises. This required 30 % travel inside
and outside Egypt.

Technopack. BOPP & CAST film 7/1997 - 3/2004

Technopack is the largest Middle East Company in the manufacturing of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene film
BOPP and Metalized polypropylene film in addition to Cast Polyethylene and cast polypropylene films for
packaging of food, detergents, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals.

Quality/RD Manager
I had been recruited to be change agent to improve the quality of products and the quality of processes and to
overcome the high percentage of scrap, defected materials and the high percentage of rejected products by all
customers. The company was in a situation of severe losses and I had been recruited to restore the company to
profitability and know how improvement. I have managed raw materials formulation and raw materials research to
be compatible with the situation of the production lines.
Key Achievements:
1. I have established long term and short term research on both BOPP line and cast line to study the problems
of plastic deformation due to stretching beyond the elastic limit, corona treatment decay due to additives
migration, thickness variation, film brittleness, that resulted in problems in printing registration and during
lamination.
2. I have introduced considerable improvement in the performance of the extrusion process, chill roll
temperature and stretching temperature and changed the stretching ratio and changed the film formulation
and design which constituted very considerable technical improvement.
 3. I have performed the research also in coordination with customer and through excessive customer
factories visit and inspection of films and raw materials during film processing.
4. I have reduced the additives ratios especially slips agents and antistatic to reduce migration and keep the
film wettability for long time. I have saved 95% of the additives every day which saved more than LE
200000 every day.
5. I have reduced the percentage of scrap to be the minimum according to 2 sigma process and taking the
scrap to efficient recycling process and added to the product and simultaneously keeping the high quality
and the standard specs of the film.
6. I have reduced the rejected materials to zero and enhanced customer satisfaction due to the improvements
that mentioned above.
7. I have improved the performance of the cast line and economically operated it after standstill and designed
new products to meet new customer’s requirements.
8. I have introduced and qualified new raw materials suppliers to work with Technopack to guarantee the
continuous production flow. I have qualified Sabic, OPC, Solvay; Schulman, and other companies.
9. Due to the above mentioned improvements and due to new products design, the market share has been
elevated to more than 90% of the Middle East market.
10. The company has tripled the production capacity by expansion and adding new BOPP lines of 40 ton/day
to raise the production capacity from 20 ton/day to 60 ton /day of BOPP film in addition to cast film of 10
tons/day.
11. I started the company with 20 tons production capacity with efficiency less than 60%, 20 % rejected and
off specs, and ended with capacity of 70 tons of efficiency 96%
12. I have introduced high-impact staff improvement initiatives that increased performance and morale
through proper training, dedicated leadership, and unwavering employee support.
13. I have been selected to be the management representative to certify the company to ISO 9000 and
Technopack was the first to be certified in Egypt.

AMC SPREA - Misr 4/1993 – 1/1995

AMC Sprea is Italian company for the production of thermosetting plastic products, melamine molding
compounds, urea molding compounds and phenol molding compounds. I have established Quality
department from scratch. Set the specs of raw materials and final products and supervision on all reaction
processes. I was responsible for the formulation and setting the process conditions of all products.

RD manager/ plant manager

Recruited to establish the chemical and physical and RD laboratory from scratch. Coordinated efforts with production
and material managers to produce for quality and design new products to expand market share and increase profits
for the Egyptian branch of AMC Sprea .
Key Achievements:
1. Established RD laboratories that included physical, chemical and water treatment laboratories.
2. Set the specs of all raw materials, the main raw materials, catalyst, additives and fillers.
3. I had direct supervision on the operations quality of Steam plants, water treatment plants,
deionizers, that feed the boilers and Formaldehyde plant.
4. Responsible for formulation of the various products, and set the bill of material, and set the
operations parameters for reactors and all other supporting units.
5. Put the specs for all raw materials and participated for establishing the approved supplier list.
6. Succeeded to procure the main raw materials from the local markets especially Formaldehyde, Hexamine,
Urea, barium sulphate, calcium carbonate, methanol etc. after series of researches and studies with the
Italian Mother Company and major state owned companies.
7. Direct responsibility of controlling the specific raw materials inventory and follow up the safety stock
and reorder point in addition of setting the safety rules for handling and storing the flammable liquids.
8. It is me who established the Egyptian Standards of urea formaldehyde, Melamine Formaldehyde, and
Phenol Formaldehyde in the presence of representatives from Cairo University, Egyptian national research
center and Egyptian organization of Standardizations and representative of the major thermosetting plastic.
The standards had been approved and applied by the Ministry Of industry in Egypt.
9. Established strategic partnership with grand local suppliers to supply 100% of the company
requirements of Formaldehyde and Hexamine that reduced the raw material cost cost by 40 % and
transportation cost by 70%
EDUCATION& Training
1. BSC. In chemistry: Ain Shams University. . Concentration in chemistry, geochemistry, and
chemical industries.
2. Higher studies Diploma in Total Quality Management: American University in Cairo,
concentration on designing for top quality and achieving customer satisfaction and statistical
process control
3. Higher studies diploma in Business Administration: Ain Shams university, Faculty of
commerce, 2-year diploma that covered corporate finance, strategic management, operations
management and negotiation skills and management theory
4. Higher studies diploma in Managerial economics: Al-Azhar university : 2 years
5. Higher studies diploma in human resources planning and development: Al-Azhar
University, 2 years which concentrate on Strategic management, human resources management,
strategic planning, theory of management,
6. Master of Business Administration: Cairo University, faculty of commerce. I have finished the
program in 3 years that covered the following courses:
 Marketing management Strategic management
 Organizational behavior International business
 Operations management Managerial accounting
 Managerial finance Human resources management
 Research methodologies Quality management and six sigma
 Leadership and negotiation Information technology

7. NEBOSH international diploma 2014

8. NEBOSH international general certificate 2009
9. Certified I High risk operations from GE, USA
10. Sucker Rod Pumps installation, and maintenance from the Pumping school in USA.
11. Lean manufacturing and six sigma application in Alcoa USA.
12. Six sigma Green belt and Statistical process control SPC.
13. Six sigma Black belt and Toyota Kaizen.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
1. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
2. Photo Shop, Integrated ERP Software
3. AutoCAD : basics
4. SAP
5. Triple S for supply chain and procurement
6. APICS

Languages
1. Arabic : native language
2. English: excellent
3. French : very good
4. German: very Good