To meet growing demand in the dairy and beverage industry, Tetra Pak will invest €90 mn to build a state-of-the-art packaging material factory in Pakistan, and €30 mn in the latest printing and laminating technologies at its packaging materials plant in Monte Mor, Brazil.
The new plant in Pakistan, will have an initial capacity of 8 bn packages/year, with the possibility of doubling to 16 bn packages, such as the Tetra Brik Aseptic and Tetra Fino Aseptic. It will be Tetra Pak’s largest facility in the Middle East region for the production of packaging material for liquid food products. Its main role will be to supply customers in Pakistan, but it will also export to other countries in the region.
Ground breaking for the new factory is planned for the third quarter of 2008, with the start of commercial production during the second half of 2010.
The technology upgrade at the Monte Mor plant includes a state-of-the-art laminator and a new flexo printing line, which will offer higher quality and more flexible production choices for customers. The new technologies will increase printing and lamination capacity by 25 per cent - up from the current figure of about 10 bn packages/year.
The flexo line is scheduled to begin production in March 2009, and the new laminator in the following June.
Tetra Pak continues to invest in production facilities around the world. Last month it announced a €26 mn investment in new printing and laminating technologies in the plant in Rubiera, Italy. During 2008, the company will complete a €60 mn state-of-the-art packaging material manufacturing plant in Hohhot, China.
