Australian packaging success story Amcor is boosting its overseas expansion with major investments in Spain and Texas.

The company is spending almost $10m opening a new bottling plant in Paris, Texas, which will be onsite at the Campbell’s Soup factory, and will make some 50 million hot-fillable PET bottles each year. The on-site operation will produce 46oz and 64oz PET containers for a variety of V8 vegetable juice products.

It is also investing in a new flexo press at its Alzira business in Spain, and will emnable the company to meet increased demand for blister foils and sachets in Iberia.

The capex comes hot on the heels of similar press upgrades at Amcor plants in the UK and Switzerland

Larry Weber, vice president and general manager of Amcor’s North American beverage business unit says, “We are 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.

At the Paris site, on-site production of hot-fill PET bottles will keep 2000 truckloads of containers off the road each year and eliminate over 376 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions which are equivalent to 901,246 miles driven annually by an average passenger vehicle, according to Amcor.

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