Swiss packaging giant Tetra Pak (Pully; www.tetrapak.com) is to build a EUR 24m plant at its Rayong site in Thailand, with annual capacity to produce more than 3 bn plastic closures for carton packaging. The new facility, which will create around 60 jobs when it opens in early 2018, will provide much-needed local production and essential extra capacity, the company said. The production unit will be located within the company’s existing straws and strips plant in Rayong.​​​

Michael Zacka, Tetra Pak South Asia vice president, said a packaging material factory will open in Vietnam as well in 2019, the fourth in southern Asia alone.