Oct 12, 2006. /Lesprom Network/. Swedish packaging giant Tetra Pak Holding plans to raise the capacity of its plant in Budaors, Hungary, to 2.8 billion packages a year from the present 1.8 billion, APA reported citing Wolfgang Niestroj, CEO of Tetra Pak Austria and Tetra Pak Hungary. The expansion programme was launched at the beginning of 2006 and the production process was realigned to a seven-day week, which created 20 additional jobs, Mr. Niestroj said. Tetra Pak Hungary employs 133 persons. Tetra Pak Hungary is regarded as one of the most profitable sites of the group, Niestroj said. The plant presently produces 10 different beverage containers, 85% of which are for export, mainly to Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Austria. Tetra Pak Hungary, with a market share of 59%, generated a turnover of Euro 28.1 million in 2005. Turnover is expected to decline some 15% year-on-year in 2006, but other eastern European subsidiaries may be able to compensate the downturn, which Niestroj attributed to the rising sales of beverages in plastic bottles and the increasing imports of UHT-milk from Austria. It will be possible to reverse this trend in 2007, he added. Tetra Pak Austria is expected to increase its package sales 3.5% year-on-year in 2006, compared to a 3.7% growth in 2005. Turnover in 2005 fell 9.0% year-on-year to Euro 62.6 million. The Tetra Pak group with 20 000 employees boosted its sales 7.4% year-on-year to Euro 8.1 billion. A total 121 billion cardboard packages were produced in the groups 48 production sites worldwide.