Fast growing Warka now to double its capacity thanks to Huppmann system

One of the leading beer producers, the Żywiec Group, has signed a contract with German-based Huppmann, concerning the construction of a brewing plant for Browary Warka. The contract, worth zł. 40 million, will allow the Warka-based Żywiec subsidiary to double its production capacity to reach 4 million hectoliters of beer annually. Huppmann, a company specializing in the delivery of complex systems for the brewing industry, already cooperates with the brewer in Żywiec and with Poznań-based brewer Lech. "The financial terms have been settled. Now the negotiations concern specific technological and logistical solutions," said Mieczysław Pankiewicz, the head of Euro-Pan, a company also taking part in the deal. Construction of the new plant will begin by the end of this year and be completed by the beginning of the next season. "Beer from Warka records an annual increase in sales of over 30%," explained Krzysztof Rut, the Żywiec Group spokesman. (Puls Biznesu, p. 5) A.K.