The US company Ball Packaging Europe, will enter the Euro-Park Special Economic Zone in Mielec. In the first stage of its development the firm is to invest 200 million EUR and employ app. 100 workers

On 31st January 2008 the company signed an agreement with the Agricultural Academy in Lublin, due to which it will become the owner of 12.5 ha of land within the Lublin sub-zone of the SEZ. The Americans have already received permission for trading within the Zone. In two months at Felina construction work for two manufacturing halls will begin. The enterprise is to become operational in mid 2009. This will be the first investment in the Lublin sub-zone. Ball Packaging Europe is a producer of aluminium drinks cans; it currently employs 2,700 people and runs plants in Gt. Britain, Germany and Austria.