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Ball Packaging Europe has announced it will invest £13.5m (EUR20m) to increase production at two of its Eastern European sites.

Some 20 new jobs will be created at its Radomsko site in Poland and its Hermsdorf plant in Germany.

The company said it will extend its production capacity by around 500m cans per year by 2008 by "up-speeding" the plants' existing can-making lines.

Ball added that it decided to upgrade its facilities to take advantage of the high growth rate in the European beverage can market, which, according to Beverage Can Makers Europe, grew by 8% in 2006.