Albéa, the world’s leading manufacturer of packaging for beauty, personal care and pharmaceutical products, today opened its new production site in Bottanuco, a town located near Milan, Italy. The $7 million site demonstrates the group’s technical expertise, strive for industrial excellence and commitment to environmental responsibility, with the continual aim of better serving its customers.

Albéa’s new site in Bottanuco has an area of 18,400 square meters, 250 employees and a production capacity of 160 million units per year. Thanks to its integrated injection, extrusion-blow molding, decoration, surface treatment and assembly technologies, it has become the group’s European Center of Excellence for mascara, lipgloss and eyeliner. This plant consolidates production from two former industrial sites in Verderio and Imbersago, which had been operating for nearly 35 years in the Milan area.