In order to meet the requirements of the growing PET market, Jus de Fruits d鈥橝lsace (JFA), a France-based fruit and vegetable juice producer, is starting a PET bottling line. JFA has invested 15m ($17.9m) in the PET line that will be located at its Sarre-Union production facility.
Expected to be operational in 2015, the plant will help increase JFA鈥檚 production capacity to 80 million plastic bottles per annum at a rate of 24,000 units per hour. This will also help JFA to increase its output by approximately 20%.
The new PET line will open up the market for JFA that has been selling its fruit and vegetable juice, nectars and drinks in glass bottles and cardboard briks.
The French juicer maker has a partnership with two companies 鈥� one being LSDH group 鈥� a specialist in packaging liquid food products (refrigerated or aseptic) in carton packs, plastic bottles and glass bottles and the other L鈥橝BEILLE company that develops and packages drinks without alcohol, particularly CSDs like colas, sodas, tonics, fruit juice drinks and energy drinks in PET bottles.