Plastics lines that keep cycling — because the wear parts keep coming.
Injection, blow moulding, extrusion and recycling — the industry where uptime is decided by heater bands, screens, seals and sensors. Exactly the parts our China–Africa channel moves every week.
Four line families.
Injection moulding
Machines, moulds, ancillaries and automation as one commissioned cell — tonnage specified for your part mix, not for the biggest number in the brochure.
Blow moulding
PET and HDPE bottle and container lines — from preform or resin through to packed product, integrated with your filling operation where there is one.
Extrusion
Pipe, profile, film and sheet lines — sized for the power your site can actually deliver, with the downstream handling included.
Recycling
Washing, pelletising and reprocessing lines — increasingly bankable in Ghana, where plastics regulation and circular-economy financing are moving.
Plastics runs on consumables. We run the channel they arrive on.
A plastics plant's real enemy isn't the big breakdown — it's the drip of small stoppages waiting for heater bands, thermocouples, screens and seals. Our one-week parts channel plus a wear-part kit specified at purchase is what keeps cycle counts up.
Your maintenance team stays central: plastics maintenance skills are strong across our markets, and we train your people on your line rather than sell you ours.
Injection and recycling machine prices across our six core markets.
Whether the search is a PET blowing machine price in Nigeria or a plastic recycling machine in Ghana, the ex-China band is set by machine class, not by country. All figures USD; machinery is priced in dollars.
| Machine class | Scale | 2026 band | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Injection moulding machine | 150–300 t clamp (the packaging workhorse band) | US$30–75k | 180 t servo typically US$44–52k; servo drives +10–15%, repaid in energy |
| Injection moulding machine | 400–500 t | From US$100k+ | Buckets, crates, larger containers |
| Washing & recycling line | 300–1,000 kg/h | US$120–350k | PET bottle washing at 500 kg/h fibre-grade sits at US$150–200k; pelletising adds US$80–120k |
Paper products lines — toilet paper converting, tissue and egg tray plants — are part of our scope too: converting lines from US$10–50k, egg tray plants around US$30k, priced honestly in the paper products guide for Africa (South African market: sister-site guide). Recycling wash lines, bag machines and pipe extrusion are banded in the plastic machinery price guide. Apply ×1.25–1.45 coastal / ×1.45–1.60 landlocked landed-and-installed, and budget the auxiliaries — chiller, dryer, loaders, mould-temperature control — and above all the moulds, which over a machine's life often out-cost the machine. Nigeria is the largest plastics market of our six and carries its own realities on the Nigeria page; Ghana's recycling chain is covered on the Ghana page. Clamp-force selection is in the tonnage guide.
Seven plastics and packaging situations, by scenario
The situations we are asked about most in this industry, with the realistic tier, the 2026 USD band and the markets where each fits. The full map, with the conditions every line must meet and the guide that prices each situation, is at lines by scenario; the sixteen-country view is at production lines by country and line.
| Scenario | Realistic tier | 2026 band (USD) | Fits best in |
|---|---|---|---|
| First injection shop | 150–300 t machine | 30–75k; moulds extra | Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania |
| Crates and pallets | 400–500 t machine | From 100k | Nigeria, Kenya |
| Bag-making shop | Basic to servo bag machine | 8k to 40k+ | Where the bag rule allows |
| Pipe and profile extrusion | Single-screw to multi-layer | 20k to 200k+ | Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania |
| PET and film recycling | Wash line 300–1,000 kg/h | 120–350k | Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda |
| Toilet paper converting, egg trays | Converting line; forming machine | From 10k; egg tray from 8k | Every market |
Bands are indicative equipment capex in USD unless stated as landed and commissioned; they are the same bands our price guides and country pages publish. Machinery is priced in US dollars and the local-currency cost moves with the exchange rate.
Moulding, extruding, or recycling?
Tell us the product and the material. We'll size the line and the power it really needs.