Ball Packaging to employ 100 at second Polish facility

The US-based metal and plastic packaging supplier said it needed the plant to meet “rapid” growth in demand for beverage cans in Central and Eastern Europe.

The “highly-automated” plant, to be built in eastern Poland on the borders of Belarus and Ukraine, will initially have one production line with an annual capacity of approximately 750 million cans a year, but there will be space at the site to accommodate additional lines in the future.

This is Ball’s second investment in Poland, it opened a factory at Radomsko in 1995. The site has a workforce of 160 people, it produces 1.5 billion aluminium beverage cans in 330ml and 500ml sizes annually on two lines.

Ball Packaging Europe president Michael Herdman said: “Currently we sell significantly more cans in the Polish market than we produce locally.”

“Our existing plant in Radomsko serves us well for central and southern Poland. The Lublin plant will provide us with geographic coverage across Poland and position us to serve even better our customers there, as well as those in countries further to the East.”

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