The expansion projects will help Avery Dennison to meet the demand for its label and packaging materials in the region

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Avery Dennison headquarters in Glendale, California. (Credit: Coolcaesar/Wikipedia)

Labelling and packaging materials provider Avery Dennison is planning to invest more than €60m to expand its manufacturing capacity and enhance factory efficiency in Europe.

Of the total investment, €45m will be used for the expansion of the company’s facility in Champ-sur-Drac, France.

The improvement will include five new logistics buildings covering an area of more than 8,700m², a new automated warehouse, and an additional high-speed, hotmelt adhesive coater. The facilities are scheduled to commence operations by 2024.

Avery Dennison will invest remaining €15m in its Luxembourg factory, which specialises in labels created with acrylic emulsion adhesives, to redesign operational flow and install a new emulsion speciality coater. The coater will commence operations in the first quarter of 2023.

The expansion of the facilities will help the firm to meet the demand for its label and packaging materials.

Avery Dennison EMENA supply chain and operations vice president Tim Presto said: “Our investments at Champs-sur-Drac and Luxembourg will allow us to meet customer demand now and into the future by freeing capacity throughout our European manufacturing network.”

The expansion projects will help the firm to move one step closer to completely implementing Industry 4.0 principles, which will boost productivity and lower operating costs.

In March this year, Avery Dennison acquired the linerless label technology developed by Catchpoint, a UK company based in Yorkshire, England.

Avery Dennison’s offerings include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets.