The company invested HRK 150 million to overhaul equipment for the production of coloured glass and a further HRK 65 million for the construction of a waste water filtering plant.
After touring the company, Grabar-Kitarovic said that it was possible and necessary to work together regardless of one's political affiliation or other differences in an effort to boost entrepreneurship and the economy and to create new jobs with the aim of Croatia coming out of the recession. She added that all this required a much stronger economic growth than has been announced.
"These investments are a contribution to greater competitiveness and successful operations of the only glass packaging factory we have...and proves that development in industry is possible and that caring for the environment does not mean stopping development," she said.
CEO Tihomir Premuzak underscored that in the past 20 years since the Swiss Vetropack Group took over the company, it had invested around HRK 1.2 billion and that the construction of the filter plant was one of the largest ecological projects in the history of Vetropack Straza.
Last year the company sold a record number of bottles - 1.01 billion which is an increase of 10%.
(EUR 1 = HRK 7.5)