Portola Packaging, a US-based manufacturer and marketer of tamper-evident plastic closures and bottles, is set to invest $12m in its Kingsport, Tennessee Tolleson, Arizona facilities.
The investment will be used to boost its dairy business market share, and the production of hot-fill and aseptic beverage closures in order to meet the increasing consumer demand.
As part of the investment plan, Portola will install additional high-speed compression and injection molding equipment and upgrade the existing production line.
Portola president and chief executive officer Kevin Kwilinski said that the company is expecting to exceed a 75% improvement for the same metric, after the additional capacity is completely operational.
The increased capacity, which is expected to be operational by the end of September 2013, will create 30 new production jobs.
In addition, Portola Packaging will operate nine manufacturing facilities across the world such as United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Russia.
