Construction of a new CCL Design plant to service major global automotive OEM and Tier 1 customers located in Mexico will commence this quarter. On 28 acres of land immediately adjacent to the existing property, Avery will also build a world-class, low cost binder manufacturing plant that will export its entire output to the United States and Canada.
Investments on the expanded campus will include a capacity addition to CCL Container and new production equipment to manufacture plastic laminate tubes for global Home & Personal Care customers operating in Mexico. Additionally, the Company will build a new coating operation to supply specialty, proprietary materials across CCL Label and Avery locations in NAFTA countries. Output from these new operations will commence in late 2016 and become fully operational by 2018.
CCL plans to close Avery manufacturing and distribution operations in Meridian, Mississippi with label production consolidating into its existing facility in Tijuana, Mexico by mid-2016. The transition of binder manufacturing to the new Mexican plant will be phased, completing after the "back-to-school" season concludes in 2017.
Simultaneously a new, state-of-the-art, main United States Avery distribution centre will be opened in Dallas providing significantly improved logistics to service key customers. CCL will report a restructuring charge of approximately $5 million relating to this announcement in its 3Q 2015 results.
The Company expects to reduce annual costs for Avery by approximately $8 million from 2018 once the moves are complete. The sale of Avery manufacturing properties in the United States is expected to entirely fund this part of the capital expenditure program resulting in no increase to the Avery investment base.
CCL Industries Inc. is a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions.