Feb 12, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. Kimberly-Clark said to Reuters that it will pour $60 million into Peru, becoming the first big U.S. company to say it will expand here since Peru signed a free-trade pact with the United States in December. Kimberly-Clark will double production in the Andean country by adding onto existing plants. Peru will become a regional center, supplying Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador, said Blanca Aquino, the company's general director in Peru. Like many U.S. consumer-products companies, Kimberly-Clark has been hit by rising costs for materials and fuel. The weak U.S. dollar, which boosts the value of overseas sales, has somewhat offset that hit. The company has been cutting costs and is expanding in developing and emerging markets. Kimberly-Clark is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products.