A €4 million ($4.8 million) investment in Quadpack’s manufacturing capability focuses on increasing capacity, speed to market and sustainability.
 
The planned investments will help the company meet its objective of providing beauty packaging solutions in the region, for the region. Quadpack’s factories in Germany and Spain will focus on airless and sustainable packaging innovation within its QLine portfolio of smart, modular solutions, which can be stocked, assembled and decorated anywhere in the world.
 
Quadpack Wood in Spain now boasts a biomass plant that is leading the factory to carbon neutrality—an investment amounting to €2.5 million. Using wood scrap to provide air conditioning and heating, the new plant brings clean energy, cuts waste and reduces dust in the air, for greater health and safety. The company says that due to this investment, the factory has already achieved a reduction of approximately 400 tons of CO2 emissions a year.
 
In addition, €360,000 is being invested throughout 2021 on Industry 4.0, the start of a multi-year project that will include more factories and system implementation. The factory currently has 63 machines connected by Internet of Things (IoT) devices that will provide real-time data, giving process visibility and efficiency control of equipment. With a production capacity of 45 million pieces a year, the collective initiatives are setting a benchmark in smart and sustainable manufacturing.
 
A €2 million investment is earmarked this year for high-speed production and decoration at Louvrette, Quadpack’s German-based manufacturing plant. Louvrette is the hub of Quadpack’s airless manufacturing and is set to become a decoration nerve center. New decoration and injection-moulding equipment will allow the factory to deliver finished products with a shorter lead time. In March, Louvrette inaugurated an airless assembly line with a capacity of 11 million units a year. The factory is also investing in new airless molds, aiming to increase its airless capacity to 20 million packs a year.