Jan 20, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Segezha Packaging has closed sack converting facility in Backa Palanka, Serbia. The majority of production was transferred to recently expanded and modernized factories in Uvalno, Czech Republic and Ploiesti, Romania, the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. Segezha, which is owned by Russia’s ILP Group, is the world’s second largest manufacturer of industrial paper sacks. It produces about 1.3 billion paper sacks annually in high-quality production facilities in ten countries, across Europe and Russia, and employs around 1500 people.