Crown Holdings, a Philadelphia-based supplier of metal packaging products, said that its subsidiary, Crown Asia Pacific Holdings, has plans to install a second beverage can line in its existing facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The new line is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2011 and will have an initial annual production capacity of 700 million two-piece 33cl aluminum beverage cans, which will expand the plant’s capacity to 1.3 billion cans.
The company said that as the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Penh has grown to become the nation’s center of economic and commercial activities and growth rates in recent years have triggered an economic boom.
Crown Asia-Pacific Division president Jozef Salaerts said that the company is excited to see the Cambodian market’s growing demand for beverage cans.
The country is developing rapidly with more customers choosing the two-piece aluminum can as their packaging preference. We are pleased to support the growing needs of our global and regional customers and help them continue to build their brands,” Salaerts said.