This major milestone completes the modular investment and building project in Campo Largo, near the city of Curitiba in Brazil’s Paraná state. The first rolls of packaging material are already rolling off the belt fully laminated.
The starting signal for this building project in Brazil was given in 2010, when SIG Combibloc began construction of its first packaging plant in South America. In mid-2011, the packaging plant was put into operation.
With the production line installed, the pre-laminated packaging material used to make the carton packs was printed, cut to size, stamped and sealed. In the second stage of construction, an extrusion line has now been added, which from now on will laminate the unprocessed cardboard with polymers and aluminium on-site in Brazil.
The inner polymer layers of an aseptic carton pack form a liquid barrier for the products that will later be filled in it; the outer layer keeps moisture out. The razor-thin aluminium layer protects the food and beverages packaged in the carton packs from light, oxygen and external odours.
“With this fresh major investment of around €40m for the installation of the extrusion line, SIG Combibloc has laid the groundwork to be optimally prepared to meet the ever-increasing demand for aseptic carton packs,” said Ricardo Rodriguez, director and general manager South America at SIG Combibloc. “We can now produce the packaging material needed for our carton packs in South America, on-site in Brazil. The extrusion line will laminate around 250 million metres of packaging material each year.”
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