INOX India has received approvals from Heineken and AB InBev to produce stainless-steel beverage kegs at its Savli facility in Gujarat, and will begin supplying these brewers.
Heineken will expand its plant in Navojoa with an investment of 1,000 million Mexican pesos, creating nearly 200 direct jobs. The announcement was reported on 26 December 2022.
Heineken will build a 1.8 billion peso (about $90 million) can manufacturing plant near its brewery in Mequoi, Chihuahua, Mexico, its seventh in the country. The plant is expected to employ around 120 people after opening.
Heineken built a greenfield brewery in Meoqui, Chihuahua, Mexico, with about 5 million hectoliters annual capacity and 500 direct jobs, a roughly 400 million euro investment; KHS supplied four of the six lines.
Heineken's new seventh brewery in Meoqui, Chihuahua, built by Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma with an investment of 7.5 billion pesos, was inaugurated on February 27, 2018, adding 5 million hectoliters of annual capacity and about 500 direct jobs.
Crown Holdings officially opened a beverage can plant in Juarez, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with a USD 75 million investment and 1.2 billion cans a year of output. A second line costing USD 45 million over two years is planned, and about 160 jobs will be created.
Vichisa, a Crown subsidiary, will invest $200 million in two phases to build its ninth glass container plant in Meoqui, Chihuahua, to supply Heineken's nearby brewery. The first phase is $120 million and is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs, with construction starting in October 2017.
Vichisa, partner of Crown Brand-Building Packaging, signed an agreement with the Chihuahua state government to build a glass container factory in Meoqui supplying the Heineken plant, with a first-phase investment of $120 million and over 200 direct jobs. A second phase of $80 million is planned within three to four years.