A Polish flexible packaging manufacturer intends to expand production at its site in south-west Poland, creating around 350 new jobs.

Kalibra was granted official consent to proceed with a plan to enlarge its existing operation in the Kamienna Góra Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Lower Silesia. The firm is installing a line to produce plastics packaging for the food industry, reports Palilz, the Polish information and Foreign Investment Agency.

The project, which is set to take shape later this year, is also scheduled to include the addition of a new packaging research and development unit.

Plastics packaging manufactured by Kalibra is understood to include oriented mono and multilayer film designed for the food sector.

Kamienna Góra SEZ currently has 44 companies already operating or in the process of taking up sites there. In 2009, it only granted two new permits for development but this rose to seven last year. They included investors from Austria, Belgium, Germany and Poland who together created 200 jobs and invested nearly €15m, according to Palilz.

The SEZ is located close to the German border and around 97km south west of the Polish city of Wroclaw.