Owens-Illinois is to spend €140 million on strengthening its European operations in 2013.
It aims to improve its quality, sustainability and capabilities to better support the needs of its European customers for more sustainable and healthy glass packaging.
Investments next year will comprise of furnace and glass making machine upgrades at plants in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic across all of the company’s market segments.
O-I’s empoys more than 8000 people in Europe across 11 countries, with more than €2.3 billion of sales in 2011. This represents approximately 40% of the company’s global sales.
