# LS Tybs to build plastic tube plant in Gabrovo, Bulgaria

LS Tybs, a joint venture between STS Pak Holding and Lageen Tuboplast, will invest 10.847 million BGN to build a new plant in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, for producing extruded plastic tubes, with one automated line expected to start by end of 2017.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2017-07-20
- Where: Gabrovo, Bulgaria
- Value: $6.50M (10.8M BGN)
- Starts operating: 2017
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 130 tubes per minute
- Products: extruded plastic tubes for flexible packaging
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [LS Tybs](https://endata.com/companies/25752.md)
- [STS Pak Holding](https://endata.com/companies/25753.md) (partner)
- [Lageen Tuboplast](https://endata.com/companies/25754.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [haskovo.net](https://haskovo.net/index.php/news/433652/teklas-blgariia-e-edna-ot-chetirite-kompanii-koito-shche-poluchat-drzhavna-podkrepa-za-investitsionen-proekt), 2017-07-20: "В България няма такова производство, а тези опаковки са едни от най-разпространените за козметичната, химическата, фармацевтичната и хранително-вкусовата промишленост."
- [haskovo.net](https://haskovo.net/index.php/news/433652/teklas-bielgariia-e-edna-ot-cetirite-kompanii-koito-shhe-polucat-dierzavna-podkrepa-za-investicionen-proekt), 2017-07-20: "В България няма такова производство, а тези опаковки са едни от най-разпространените за козметичната, химическата, фармацевтичната и хранително-вкусовата промишленост."

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