Aujan Industries to double Iran plant capacity

Middle East soft drinks company Aujan Industries has announced plans to double the capacity of its can-making plant in Iran by the end of next year.

Aujan said the plan comes in response to enormous demand for the products produced at the Kaveh Beverage Can Company, which supplies a range of both international and domestic brands.

The facility has a current capacity of 800 million cans annually, which will be expanded to reach 1.6 cans billion cans by the end of next year, Aujan said in a statement.

Aujan is partnering with Rexam, a global consumer packaging company, to oversee the expansion process, including training staff and providing critical technical expertise.

“As industry pioneers, we recognised early the enormous opportunity in Iran, with its large, young consumer market,” said Sheikh Adel Aujan, Chairman of Aujan.

“As we continue to grow our operations in that country,” he added, “we are very pleased to partner with Rexam, one of the world’s leading beverage can-makers. This relationship is especially important to us as we look towards future expansion activities in the wider region.”

“At Rexam we are very excited about the opportunity to work with Aujan during this period of continuous expansion at this century-old beverage company,” said Graham Chipchase, Chief Executive of Rexam. “We have long experience from similar partnerships and are confident that our can-making and can-filling expertise will make a sustained contribution to the expansion of the Kaveh plant and, in the longer term, to Aujan’s ability to reach its goal of becoming a truly global beverage player.”

The first foreign beverage company to launch operations in Iran, Aujan established the Kaveh plant in 2009.