Belgium’s packaging group VPK Packaging continues to invest in its Belgian sites. After recently installing a new casemaker at the Oudegem site, replacing two older machines, the company now started up a new corrugator at its Erembodegem plant. The corrugator has a width of 2.8 m and replaces the previous 2.5 m machine, VPK says. The investment is aimed at improving performance and increasing production capacity at the site.
VPK wants to further expand the Erembodegem site in the near future, aiming at raising corrugated board capacity from 100 million m² to 170 million m². To achieve this, the company plans, amongst others, to "activate the dormant volume on the rotary die-cutter". "We aim to increase finishing capacity to 120 million m² – an important intermediate step toward our goal of 170 million m² for the Erembodegem site," the company said in a press release.
