Middle East Company for Manufacturing and Producing Paper, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of container boards and industrial papers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Other GCC countries. The company operates through two segments: Manufacturing and Trading. The Manufacturing segment offers container board and industrial paper, as well as tissue paper. The Trading segment engages in the wholesale and retail sales of paper, carton, and plastic waste. It provides containerboards comprising high performance fluting, test liner, dual use, semi-chemical fluting, kraft liner board, and white top test liner products under MEPFLUTE, MEPLINER, MEPDUAL, MEPCHEM, MEPKRAFT, and MEPWHITE brand names for use in beverages, consumer durables, detergents, industrial goods, and processed food industries; and semi-chemical fluting products under the MEPCHEM brand name for frozen and fresh food applications. The company also offers paperboards, including core boards under the MEPCORE brand name for film, tape and label, textiles, and paper applications; plasterboard liners under the MEPGYPSUM brand name for interior wall lining systems; and absorbent kraft products under the MEPLAMINATE brand name for laminated furniture and shelves, and counters and floors, as well as industrial and tissue papers. In addition, it is involved in the wholesale of waste, scrap, and other products; provision of waste management and treatment services; recycling and collection of carton waste; and manufacture, import, and export of cartons, as well as retail trade in paper and cartons. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.