Melbourne-based Viscount Plastics will open a new plant in China. It will be a third facility of the plastics company in this country. Its construction will be finished in April 2003. Mike Dwyer, managing director of Viscount, said that the plant, located in Langfang near Beijing, will make rigid packaging products such as pails and cartridges. It will initially employ 80 workers. The company has already two factories in China, one in Changzhou and one in Guangzhou. China has become Viscount's single largest national market for packaging products. CORPORATE NAME VISCOUNT PLASTICS PTY LTD SUBJECT PACKAGING - AUSTRALIA - EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES PACKAGING - CHINA - EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES INVESTMENTS, AUSTRALIAN - CHINA.