POINTERS
Capsnap jv widens bottle production in Turkey
Watertek (Istanbul / Turkey; www.watertek.com.tr), a joint venture of Capsnap Europe (A-4550 Kremsmünster; www.capsnap.at) and Turkey´s Teknik Plastik, has started up a second production line for polycarbonate bottles at its site near Istanbul. The company, which also produces plastic caps for 5-gallon bottles, now has capacity to turn out more than 1m bottles per year for the Turkish market. Due to growing local demand, Watertek hopes to increase production still further. Capsnap Europe is a joint venture of Austria´s Greiner Packaging and US-based Portola Packaging.
10.06.2004 Plasteurope.com [12947]
Published on 10.06.2004