Article: HOT PET BOTTLE MARKET SENDS SCHMALBACH-LUBECA TO PERU.

Keeping in step with the booming South American PET bottle market, Germany's Schmalbach-Lubeca AG has formed a Lima, Peru-based joint venture with two companies.

Schmalbach-Lubeca PC Del Peru SA will begin injection molding PET preforms of all sizes on three presses this month. The new, 32,400-square-foot plant will employ fewer than 25. Financial details concerning the venture were not disclosed.

``Peru is a very important market for us,'' William Long, vice president and general manager of Schmalbach-Lubeca's Latin America operation, said in a news release. ``We have been supplying Peru for a number of years via import from company operations in ...

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