published on 24/09/10
A local team of contract eningeers have been kept busy installing a new production line in Brittany. The Metal Packaging has invested EUR 28m in a dry-wall-ironed (DWI) can production facility at its French Plant.
The installation will be completed by the contract engineers within the next few months. The line will be able to produce some 400 million cans a year depending on customer demand.
DWI is the same process as that used to manufacture drinks cans and is said be the most cost-effective method for large runs of food cans.
Mr Francis Labbé, Chief Executive of Impress said: 'It makes good business sense to invest in technology that helps is gain cost advantage without compromising quality or flexibility.”
Impress’s other DWI lines are installed at its plants in Deventer, the Netherlands, and Sutton-in-Ashfield, which again Impress used a local outsource engineering service.

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