Amcor Rigid Plastics has extended its relationship with Campbell’s Soup with the opening of an on-site bottle manufacturing operation in Paris, Texas.
Amcor’s new in-line operation is expected to produce approximately 50 million hot-fillable PET bottles every year. Campbell’s increased access to packaging will also deliver sustainability benefits including reduced freight costs and carbon emissions, and enhanced operational efficiencies, Amcor said.
“We’re excited about establishing this on-site operation because it expands our long-time strategic partnership with Campbell’s and gives us an opportunity to better serve a key strategic customer,” said Larry Weber, vice-president and general manager of Amcor’s North American beverage business unit.
Amcor invested $7 million to re-purpose 6,000 square feet of its Paris manufacturing facility. The on-site operation will produce 46oz and 64oz PET containers for a variety of V8 vegetable juice products.
The upgrade will keep more than 2,000 truckloads of containers off the road each year and eliminate over 376 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Previously, Amcor supplied Campbell’s with PET containers from its Fort Worth, Texas manufacturing plant.
Since 2004, the company has operated an on-site blow molding operation at Campbell’s beverage production plant in Napoleon, Ohio, where it produces 150 million hot-fill PET containers a year.
In January, Amcor invested $40 million in expanding its Ohio site, allowing it to meet increased demand for its packaging in the food and beverage sectors.
It agreed to acquire Sonoco’s rigid plastics blow molding operations for $280 million in September 2016.
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