Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has launched a new £810,000 Education Centre at its Milton Keynes site in the UK.
The opening marks a total of £4m invested by CCE in its national education programme since 2011, which to date has reached over 300,000 young people.
Officially opened by Hubert Patricot, executive vice president and president, Europe Group – CCE, and George Eustice MP, parliamentary under secretary at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the new facility is CCE’s sixth Education Centre across Great Britain.
Similar facilities are already in place at CCE’s other sites, including Wakefield, Edmonton, Sidcup, East Kilbride and Continuum Recycling, CCE’s joint venture with ECO Plastics in Hemswell, Lincolnshire.
Free and open to students aged 12 and above, the new centre aims to host over 200 visits per year, reaching more than 4,000 students from local secondary schools, colleges and universities.
The new Education Centre forms part of a wider £2m investment at CCE’s Milton Keynes factory last year. This is combined with a further £1.5m injection into operations occurring throughout 2014, taking total investment at the site to more than £16m over the last five years.
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