BOPP film specialist Treofan’s new high-performance plant, at the company’s Neunkirchen site in the German state of Saarland, is entering series production. 8.7 meters wide, the production line boasts an annual capacity of up to a billion square meters of premium five-layer label and packaging film. That’s equivalent to a daily output of around 2.7 million square meters – roughly the area of 400 football pitches. Custom-configured in partnership with plant engineering group Andritz, the 30 million euro plant represents Treofan’s largest single investment in recent decades. It forms part of a major program: over the past two years, a total of 60 million euros has been invested in upgrading Treofan’s entire manufacturing infrastructure in Germany, Italy and Mexico to the latest technology. This spring, the control system of an existing production line in Neunkirchen received a four-million-euro upgrade as part of the investment program, and at the company’s site in Zacapu, Mexico, a metalizer was installed for seven million euros. The new line will produce premium label and packaging film for the European market and for export to Asia, Australia and New Zealand, making it a key component in Treofan’s strategy to position itself as a global premium supplier.