Equipment

Growing demand in the dairy beverage industry has prompted Tetra Pak to invest Euro 120m (£95m) in a new materials facility in Pakistan and technology for its Monte Mor site in Brazil.

The company will build a new €90m packaging material plant in Pakistan and invest €30m in printing and laminating technologies at Monte Mor.

The Pakistan site will be Tetra Pak's largest liquid food packaging facility in the Middle East and will manufacture Tetra Brik Aseptic and Tetra Fino Aseptic packs.

It will have a capacity of eight billion packs per year and the potential to double this.

The facility is scheduled to start production in the second half of 2010 and will mainly serve the domestic market, but it will also export to other countries in the region.

Tetra Pak will also purchase a laminator and flexo process printing line for Monte Mor in Brazil, increasing the current capacity of 10 billion packs per year by 25%.

The flexo line will begin production in March 2009, followed by the new laminator in June.

Last month, Tetra Pak said it would invest €26m in printing and laminating technologies at its materials plant in Rubeira, Italy.

In 2007, the company opened a new €100m plant near Moscow.

It is also due to open a €60m plant in Hohhot, China, to serve the country's growing dairy and beverage industry.