First D&I beverage can plant for Switzerland

摘要

Switzerland's first D&I two-piece canmaking plant is to be built by Rexam to make slim and sleek beverage cans for the growing energy drinks market. The new plant will free up capacity for Rexam plants in Germany and the Czech Republic to grow speciality can volumes or release production capacity for other sizes.The Swiss plant at Widnau, where contract-filler Rauch operates a plant for Red Bull drinks, will eventually house four production lines with 2.2bn can capacity, be a 'wall-to-wall' operation, and represents an investment of ￡115 million (US$176m) over three years The first line is expected to come on stream in the first quarter of 2015, savs Rexam.