Segezha Packaging closes converting factory in Serbia
Segezha Packaging (“Segezha”) announced today the closure of its sack converting facility in Backa Palanka, Serbia. Segezha’s Balkan sales team will continue to serve our valued clients in the region with sacks produced in our other plants in Central Europe. The majority of production will be transferred to our recently expanded and modernized factories in Uvalno, Czech Republic and Ploiesti, Romania.
We are please to announce the successful start up of our new factory at Saransk in Russia. As a proof of the strong synergies between our Russian and European businesses it only took 5 months from approval of the project to the production of the first sack
New plant in Saransk increases capacity by 400 million sacks
As part of a major investement programme, Segezha Packaging has announced the start of construction of a new sack production plant in Saransk in Central Russia with a capacity of up to 400 million sacks per year. The total investment of the project will be almost 21 million euros, and the project is estimated to create 300 additional jobs.
New sack plant in Holland increases capacity by 25%
In September Segezha Packaging officially started up a new plant in Zwaag (Holland), located only 25 km from our old plant in Edam. With the new plant we have increased our production output in Holland from 75 to 100 million sacks per year.
A year ago, Korsnäs Packaging merged with Segezha Pulp & Paper and gave birth to a new industry player and the 2nd largest paper sack producer in the world.
