The investment at its Wakefield, East Kilbride and Sidcup manufacturing facilities forms a crucial part of CCE’s strategy to grow its business whilst reducing the impact of its operations on the environment, with sustainable innovation at the heart of the £50m programme, the company said.
Approximately £30m is being invested in a new automated warehouse at Wakefield. The new facility will increase Wakefield’s storage capacity by 102%, which means that products manufactured at the site will be delivered to customers directly, rather than via external warehouses, saving approximately 500,000 road miles per year.
CCE is also investing £5.4m in a number of projects at its East Kilbride site. These include the introduction of a new energy-efficient bottle blowing facility that will produce lightweight PET bottles, reducing the amount of PET required, and a packaging machine that removes the need to use cardboard in the packaging of multi-pack products.
An investment of £15m is boosting production capabilities at CCE’s Sidcup site, a new canning line will raise the site’s capacity by an additional 20 million cases of product per year. Innovations in the technology used on the new canning line mean that it will use 20% less water, and it will help reduce the site’s carbon footprint by 610 tonnes in 2012.
Simon Baldry, MD of Coca-Cola Enterprises in GB, said: “We are committed to manufacturing in this country and are proud that 95% of what we sell is made in Great Britain. The £50m investment is crucial to developing our business in line with our fundamental objective to grow more, while minimising our impact on the environment.”
Source: Coca-Cola Enterprises
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