The first subsidiary of ETILOG, a company based in Presov/Slovakia, and specialised in the manufacture of special packaging for the automotive and aerospace industries, will soon be set up in the Sbikha2 industrial zone in Kairoun (central Tunisia). According to the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA-Tunisie), the first phase of the project will create 210 jobs. Ahead of this imminent set-up, the first of its kind in Africa, a delegation from the company, which has 3 production sites in Eastern Europe, recently visited Tunisia to "continue discussions on the progress of the subsidiary's implementation," the same source indicated on Monday. Project follow-up meetings were held between company's CEO Josef Johannes Ebnet and Director of ETILOG Tunisia Bouzaienne Gmairi, with FIPA-Tunisie and the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII) Managing Directors Jalel Tebib and Omar Bouzaouada, respectively. The latter confirmed their support for the initiative, according to a FIPA press re lease. ETILOG is the specialist for textile packaging needs and is the European technology leader for textile packaging systems. Today, Tunisia boasts some 200 companies active in the automotive sector, accounting for 16% of the country's exports, according to the Tunisian Automotive Association (TAA). Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse