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The contract, with a validity of 5 years, involves an annual turnover of EUR 11 million

The Silk of Barcelona will manufacture one billion bottles for García Carrión PET

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December 16, 2008

The multinational chemical La Seda Barcelona will manufacture more than a billion bottles of PET for García Carrión, after the signing of an agreement to provide and manage, exclusively, the activity of PET-Packaging of the producer of wines and juices of the Spanish food market. With a duration of 5 years, the contract involves an annual turnover estimated at EUR 11 million for the Division of PET-Packaging of the Silk of Barcelona, Artenius Pet Packaging Europe (Appe).

During the first year, La Seda Barcelona will provide 190 million of preforms from its plant in Casarrubios del Monte (Toledo), representing a total of 6,000 tons of PET. This amount shall be increased each year and is expected to reach the 7,000 tons of PET. To increase the production capacity of its Toledo plant, the company will make an investment of approximately 2.5 million euros and to increase its production capacity by 220 million units per year.

Signing of the agreement between the Silk of Barcelona and Don Simón.

Two new centers of blowing

In addition, the agreement incorporates the activity of La Seda Barcelona two new centers of blowing of preform located on the premises of García Carrión in Daimiel (Ciudad Real) and Villanueva de los Castillejos (Huelva). In this way, Artenius provides the knowledge necessary to manage 100 percent of the process of blowing for brands Don Simon and Simon Life in a variety of products (juices, nectars, gazpacho, sangría, etc.). Professionals qualified Appe will work in the facilities of García Carrión, dealing with the management of operations and the maintenance of the blowing within the quality parameters required by each of its products.

Thanks to its high technological development, Appe PET containers allow to maintain unchanged freshness and natural characteristics of the products of García Carrión. Barrier solutions using specific allow to adapt the container to the sensitivity of the content, prolonging their useful life and ensuring the properties of the time of packaging. Center of r & d in Bretch (Belgium), La Seda Barcelona researches and develops - along with García Carrión - the new packaging of PET of the company.

New PET bottle for wine Don Simón

The Silk of Barcelona and García Carrión have developed a new PET bottle for wine packaging Don Simón. Preforms them and bottles are manufactured at the plant of Appe in Toledo and packaged in the facilities of the wine producer in Valdepeñas. The new packaging, the packaging of wines of quality-oriented closes with standard 30 x 60 capsules (plastic or aluminum) and maintains the traditional glass containers premium image.

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