The 10,000m² plant employs 50 people and has two production halls, which can produce up to 2.5 billion closures a year.
It will produce standard 28mm and 38mm caps for still, carbonised waters, and juices. In the other are two and three-piece closures for milk and juice cartons.
Benoit Henckes, CEO, United Caps, told BeverageDaily, thanks to its location it wants to serve customers in Germany as well as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe and there are plans for two more halls in the future.
“Our facility not only fully supports our new growth strategy and ambitions to be closer to customers, but confirms the investment we are prepared to make to realise those ambitions,” he said.
“Featuring the latest, advanced equipment to assure quality and limit environmental impact, our Schwerin plant also plays an important role in our innovation efforts to supply plastic caps and closures to meet customer needs.”
Raw materials will be supplied from the facility’s 12 silos, each of which has a capacity of 100 m³, corresponding to a total of about 800 tonnes. The silos store polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
Materials and energy (power, cooling, compressed air and raw materials) are supplied to the plant underground. The entire plant is heated using a heat recovery system, making operations sustainable.
