Alcan Packaging Unit Targets European Market

Rio Tinto-owned Alcan has started production trials at its new packaging facility aimed at food producers in Novy Bydzov, Czech Republic.

The $25m plant, which produces printed flexible packaging, is the company’s fourth manufacturing unit in Eastern Europe.

The facility’s rotogravure flexible packaging products will be supplied to food manufacturers in central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Germanic and Nordic regions.

Alcan Packaging Food Europe operates 31 plants in 18 countries.