# Barbosa&Almeida to invest €65M in glass bottle plant expansion in Villafranca

Barbosa&Almeida (BA Glass Spain) will invest €40 million to build a third furnace and two warehouses at its Villafranca glass factory, adding capacity for 500 million more bottles per year and creating 80 new jobs. An additional €25 million will be spent on renovating the first furnace.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-03-06
- Where: Villafranca, Extremadura, Spain, Spain
- Value: $80.0M (65.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 80
- Starts operating: Sep 2018
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 500 million bottles per year
- Products: glass bottles
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Barbosa&Almeida](https://endata.com/companies/30510.md)

## Sources

- [hoy.es](https://www.hoy.es/prov-badajoz/nueva-ampliacion-barbosaalmeida-20180306140220-nt.html), 2018-03-06: "La construcción de un tercer horno y dos almacenes más supondrá la inversión de 40 millones y la creación de 80 empleos directos más."

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