BOPP film specialist Treofan has commissioned a new high-performance plant at the company’s Neunkirchen site in Germany, featuring an 8.7m-wide production line and offering an annual capacity of up to a billion sq m of premium five-layer label and packaging film.
Custom-configured in partnership with plant engineering group Andritz, the 30 million EUR (34.1 million USD) plant represents Treofan’s largest single investment in recent decades. It forms part of a major program: over the past two years, where a total of 60 million EUR (68.2 million USD) has been invested in upgrading Treofan’s entire manufacturing infrastructure in Germany, Italy and Mexico. This spring, the control system of an existing production line in Neunkirchen received a four million EUR (4.5 million USD) upgrade as part of the investment program, and at the company’s site in Zacapu, Mexico, a metalizer was installed for seven million EUR (7.9 million USD).
The new line will produce premium label and packaging film for the European market and for export to Asia, Australia and New Zealand, making it a key component in Treofan’s strategy to position itself as a global premium supplier. Read an exclusive report on Treofan’s transformation into a customer-orientated, innovation-driven premium BOPP film producer here.
‘The demand for monomaterials that can be fully recycled and the increasing use of global packaging concepts by major brand manufacturers are important worldwide trends,’ said Treofan CEO Dr Walter Bickel. ‘This means that films have to offer more and more functionalities when it comes to protective effects, barrier properties and processing methods. At Treofan, we have an abundance of expertise in these areas. With our new plant, we now also have the latest manufacturing technology at our disposal, allowing us to meet our customers’ high expectations.’
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