{"id":42183,"date":"2021-11-25T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=42183"},"modified":"2021-11-25T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T11:43:48","slug":"tetra-pak-will-invest-r500-million-in-its-plant-kwazulu-natal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2021\/11\/25\/tetra-pak-will-invest-r500-million-in-its-plant-kwazulu-natal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetra Pak will invest R500 million\u00a0in its plant\u00a0KwaZulu-Natal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tetra-pack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33222\" \/> Tetra Pak South Africa, a food packager and processor, is investing R500 million at its Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, facility.<\/p>\n<p>The investment will be used to upgrade and expand the plant&#8217;s capabilities, according to the Swedish company. From the first quarter of 2022, the improvement will take &#8220;several years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tetra Pak specialises in the manufacturing and packaging of ice cream, cheese, pet food, and fruits and vegetables, as well as liquid food packaging equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Fager\u00e4ng, Managing Director of Tetra Pak South Africa explained that the company has considered how the growth plans may promote other short-term jobs, such as those in the local construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to benefiting our consumers, renovating our Pinetown plant opens up a slew of opportunities for the surrounding towns.&#8221; This investment will have a favourable impact on local farming communities, raw material suppliers, and community services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re dedicated to helping to make food systems more secure and sustainable.&#8221; We seek to solve three critical concerns alongside our customers, partners, NGOs, and the government: access to safe and nutritious food, food and water loss reduction, and developing a sustainable food value chain. This investment, we believe, is a significant step in that direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tetra Pak would also be closer to using sugarcane as a raw material for locally produced bio-based plastics as a result of the investment, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The update, according to Waqas Ali, Factory Director of Tetra Pak South Africa&#8217;s Pinetown facility, will allow the company to boost its local content to 80% and speed up deliveries to clients.<\/p>\n<p>The investment, according to Zikalala, would strengthen diplomatic ties between Sweden and South Africa and serve as a springboard for other corporations to invest in the province and local economy.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the city had pressured the company for several months as part of the province&#8217;s Economic Recovery and Transformation Plan, and that the expansion would result in the hiring of 20 new technical specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetra Pak South Africa, a food packager and processor, is investing R500 million at its Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, facility. The investment will be used to upgrade and expand the plant&#8217;s capabilities, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54233,"featured_media":42184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42185,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions\/42185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}