The Gulf Paper Manufacturing Company, established in 1979 with a capital of 3 million Dinars, was the first company to manufacture paper in the Gulf region. (Capital was increased later to KD. 3,500,000) The rise of the Gulf Paper Manufacturing Company since 1979 is a response to the reasonable needs high- lighted by the exhaustive studies that preceded the commissioning of the company, regarding the urgent and increasing needs for raw materials used in the paper industry, in the Gulf region and the Middle and Far East countries.