The Egyptian company TAKI VITA Company S.A.E. has been making highquality furniture for the home and office for over 30 years, as well as mattresses, sofas and car seats for customers around the world. The biggest Egyptian furniture maker manufactures all the foam goods itself. Since its foundation in 1976, it has always used continuous slabstock plants made by Hennecke. The PU processor recently put a MULTIFLEX plant into operation.

When it comes to processing polyurethane, TAKI VITA is a true pioneer. In the 1970s, it was the first company in Egypt to start producing high-quality slabstock for mattresses and medicinal cushions. It now covers a wide spectrum in the area of foam goods manufacturing, and this above all has to do with TAKI VITA’s wide product portfolio. At three locations in the suburbs of the Egyptian megacity Cairo that together comprise about 50,000 m², some 550 employees produce not only mattresses and cushions but also sofas, car seats, accessories for the medical sector and sponges for cleaning shoes.

Hennecke plant technology has accompanied TAKI VITA from the very start. Shortly after the firm was established, Hennecke supplied a continuous UBT slabstock plant to Cairo, which ran successfully and without being modified for almost three decades in a row. Tamer Elsendiony, who is the responsible marketing manager at the company, confirms this:” TAKI VITA practically grew up with the Hennecke UBT. The plant worked extremely well and played a part in TAKI VITA’s success story.” In 2008, the plant underwent a comprehensive maintenance and modernisation overhaul that included a complete change of conveyor drive.

Based on continuous contact TAKI VITA shortly after decided to invest again in Hennecke plant technology. One year later, it was time – after the technical details had all been clarified, the final negotiations about the delivery and installation of a Hennecke MULTIFLEX slabstock plant came to a successful close. The plant was delivered in August 2010 after being tailored to meet TAKI VITA’s specific requirements.

By choosing the MULTIFLEX, TAKI VITA was not only opting for state-of-the-art technology in the field of foam manufacture for furniture and mattresses, but for a plant that can produce a variety of technical foams to the highest standard. This has opened up many avenues to TAKI VITA in a segment that is growing extremely fast. Moreover, the production and processing of technical foams promises further opportunities for expansion as few suppliers in the local market are able to achieve similar production results as TAKI VITA.

And the investment in Hennecke plant technology was worth it to TAKI VITA not only because of the technical unique selling points, but because of the Hennecke engineers‘ and service technicians‘ know-how, which played a decisive role in a positive sense, as Tamer Elsendiony emphasizes: ”Hennecke has not only convinced us with its reliable machine technology but also because our co-operation is so smooth.

We can always rely on the Hennecke experts if there is a problem.“ The CEO of the TAKI group, Dr. Zeinab El-Ghazaly, also values the business relations with Hennecke that are almost 30 years old. ”Our business partnership with Hennecke goes back many years and has always been characterised by constructive and professional co-operation. The investment in modern production technology is a cornerstone for future success in the market, just as the old plant used to be in the past.“