PHW Group: Expansion of Business in the US

Cuxhaven / Vineland, December 2nd, 2008. The PHW Group expands its business in the US. The subsidiary NUTRILO and Mack PPI, headquartered in Dayton/New Jersey an expertise of packaging, established a production site in Vineland/New Jersey. The PHW Group holds the majority stake. Starting from December 2008 the new Nutri-Mack facility will begin manufacturing food supplements as stick packs and tablets as well as vitamin mixtures for the food and beverage industries on the US market. NUTRILO, headquartered in Cuxhaven/Germany, is responsible for supplying the premixes. The new production site enables NUTRILO to gain a far better access to the US market. NUTRILO achieves already about 39 % of the turnover with its export business. 

The 35,000 square foot (2,500 square meter) production site of Nutri-Mack consists of four lane state-of-the-art production systems. The site is staffed with 20 employees during the first twelve months after production start. Paul-Heinz Wesjohann, chairman of the board PHW Group, emphasizes this investment as a further important milestone in NUTRILO’s history during his speech at the inauguration of the new site.