Kl?kner Pentaplast breaks ground for first China facility

  The Kl?ckner Pentaplast Group broke ground on 18 January 2012 to begin construction of its first manufacturing facility in China. Located 80 km. west of Shanghai in the Suzhou Industrial Park, the new site will produce packaging films for the expanding Chinese market. The first phase of production capacity will focus on transverse-direction oriented shrink-label films, used primarily for full-or partial-body shrink-sleeve applications. Kl?ckner Pentaplast is the only producer of shrink-label films with global manufacturing in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The new 12,000-sq.m. manufacturing site will house state-of-theart production equipment, high-tech production control systems, and a research and development laboratory. The site will increase Kl?ckner Pentaplast’s global shrinkfilms capacity by 6,000 metric tonnes. The CNY 185.7 million ($29.5 million) investment is targeted for completion in first quarter 2013 and is expected to employ 100 people.
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