Sustainable packaging solutions provider Ball has decided to cease production at its beverage packaging plant in Cuiabá, Brazil.
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The beverage packaging facility, which was currently established in 1998, employs approximately 70 people.
Upon closing the plant, the firm intends to serve its customers who are supported by the Cuiabá plant by its other facilities in Brazil.
Ball Beverage Packaging South America president Carlos Pires said: “Absorbing this one line can plant into Ball’s remaining network of 13 plants in South America allows us to reduce our cost structure while continuing to effectively and efficiently supply our customers with the most sustainable package in the beverage supply chain.”
Some of employs at the facility will be transferred to other Ball locations while the affected employees will be provided with benefits and outplacement services in accordance with legal requirements, the company said.
With around 18,800 employees across the globe, Ball provides packaging solutions for beverage, food and household products customers.
The company also offers aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the US government.
In 2017, Ball said it has decided to cease production at its three US-based beverage packaging facilities located in Birmingham, Alabama; Chatsworth, California; and Longview, Texas from 2018.
Upon closure of the facilities, the company plans to continue to supply products to its existing customers from other facilities.
Ball also said it will construct a new beverage packaging facility in Goodyear, Arizona, which will focus on the production and supply of specialty cans in the south-western US.
Ball Beverage Packaging North & Central America president Carlos Medeiros said: “These transformational actions will optimize our plant network, realign our standard 12-ounce beverage can and end capacity, increase our manufacturing flexibility and drive efficiencies so we can better compete with other packaging substrates.”
Earlier this year, Ball has unveiled plans to build a one-line beverage can and end manufacturing plant in Asunción, Paraguay, and to add capacity in its Buenos Aires, Argentina, facility.
The investments will enable it to serve the increasing beverage can market in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina, and to support several customer demands with various can sizes.