Amcor launches in-line operation for 50 million bottles a year

Amcor Rigid Plastics expands its relationship with long-time customer Campbell Soup Co. with the opening of an on-site bottle manufacturing operation in Paris, Texas.

Amcor’s new in-line operation is expected to produce approximately 50 million hot-fillable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles each year. Campbell’s increased access to packaging will also deliver sustainability benefits including reduced freight costs and carbon emissions, and enhanced operational efficiencies.

“We’re excited about establishing this on-site operation because it expands our long-time strategic partnership with Campbell and gives us an opportunity to better serve a key strategic customer,” said Larry Weber, Vice President and General Manager of Amcor’s North American beverage business unit.

Amcor invested $7 million to re-purpose 6000 sq ft of the Paris manufacturing facility. The on-site operation will produce 46oz and 64oz PET containers for a variety of V8® Vegetable Juice products.
At the Paris site, on-site production of hot-fill PET bottles will keep over 2000 truckloads of containers off the road each year and eliminate over 376 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions which are equivalent to 901,246 miles driven annually by an average passenger vehicle, according to Amcor. Previously, Amcor supplied Campbell with PET containers from its Fort Worth, Texas manufacturing plant.

Since 2004, Amcor has operated an on-site blow molding operation at Campbell’s beverage production plant in Napoleon, Ohio where it produces 150 million hot-fill PET containers annually. Amcor has strong expertise in running on-site manufacturing operations with similar hot-fill facilities located at several beverage filling plants throughout the U.S.

About Amcor Rigid Plastics
Amcor Rigid Plastics is among the world’s largest manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging for the food, beverage, spirits, personal care, home care and healthcare industries with 62 facilities in 12 countries. Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., Amcor Rigid Plastics is a subsidiary of Amcor Limited.
Amcor Limited (ASX: AMC) is a global leader in responsible packaging solutions, focusing on a broad range of flexible and rigid plastic packaging that enhances the products consumers use in everyday life, with 95 percent of its sales into the food, beverage, healthcare and tobacco industries. The company employs more than 31,000 people worldwide, operating in 40-plus countries and across more than 190 sites.