Project Updates
Sanner Pharmaceuticals Production Facility
Credit: Sanner
Project Type: Pharmaceuticals, medical device and diagnostics packaging plant
Location: Bensheim, Germany
Developer: Sanner
Area: 30,000m2
Expected opening: September 2024
The facility will be capable of manufacturing desiccant or effervescent packaging for the medical technology, diagnostics, mechatronic pharma drug delivery systems and drug handling.
Coca-Cola’s 100% Plant-Based Bottle
Credit: The Coca-Cola Company
Project type: Packaging innovation (beverage bottle)
Location: 100% bio-based PET bottles
Developer: Coca-Cola
Technology partners: Virent, Gevo, Changchun Meihe and Avantium
Launched: October 2021
Coca-Cola unveiled the 100% rPET prototype bottle, excluding cap and label, using only the commercially-scalable technologies in October 2021.
Metsa Board’s Board and Pulp Mill Expansion
Credit: Image courtesy of Metsa
Project type: Board and pulp mill expansion
New Folding Boxboard Line (BL1) Opened: April 2016
Production Capacity: Folding boxboard - 400,000(tpa); White kraftliner - 250,000tpa; Chemical pulp - 730,000tpa
Owners: Metsa Board and Norra Skog
A renewal programme is underway to increase the facility’s production capacity and to make it more energy-efficient
