UPM Raflatac is investing investment $109M in a new pressure sensitive labelstock factory at Dixon, Illinois, to serve label converters in the important US Midwest market. Construction is due for completion during the first quarter of 2008.
“Our target is to be the number one choice of label converters everywhere we operate," says Heikki Pikkarainen, president, UPM Raflatac. "With the Dixon investment we will complete our service network in the US market, consisting of our labelstock and RFID tag and inlay factories in Fletcher, North Carolina, and the slitting terminals in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Ontario, California. The Dixon factory will enable us to grow further in North America where the market growth is annually approximately five per cent."
Last year UPM Raflatac started up an efficient RFID tag production facility in Fletcher, where it also completed a second coating line at the existing pressure sensitive labelstock factory.
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