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From smoke to sustainability: Rai Paper gets a green makeover

 Webuye Pan Paper. [File, Standard]

Anyone passing near the former Webuye Pan Paper, now Rai Paper, along the Eldoret–Webuye–Bungoma Road, would once have been greeted by three unmistakable sensations: the acrid smell of chemicals, the deafening noise of machinery, and thick smoke billowing from its chimneys.

This was before the factory’s collapse around 2009, when the familiar white smoke faded and the machines fell silent.

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