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The Coca-Cola Company plans a $650 million expansion of its fairlife facility in Coopersville, Michigan, adding two production lines and about 150 jobs. Commercial production on new lines is targeted for 2028.
Berry Global is supplying The Coca-Cola Company with a lightweight tethered closure for PET bottles of carbonated soft drinks, with rollout across Coca-Cola's European plants. Over 400 million closures have been applied so far in Germany, Spain and the UK.
Packaging converter ALPLA has acquired an Amcor facility in Alandi, near Pune in Western India, that produces PET bottle preforms, and will take over all 50 employees. The site becomes ALPLA's ninth location in India.
Smoothie maker innocent is building its first own bottling plant in the Port of Rotterdam, a greenfield CO2-neutral factory with an investment of US$250 million.
Coca-Cola's bottler COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages set up a new fully automated production line at its Chengdu, Sichuan facility capable of 120,000 cans per hour, which it says is the fastest such plant in the world.
COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages signed an agreement with Guian New Area on March 27, 2020 to build a beverage factory with two soft drink production lines and a 270 million yuan investment. Completion is expected by end of 2021.
The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola European Partners plan to invest up to €1 billion in France over five years, covering new products, bottling capacity expansion and plant modernization. CCEP alone has earmarked €500 million for its production and distribution network.
Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East and Chromatic Technologies rolled out Reveal temperature-sensitive ink cans for Coca-Cola brands in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the first commercial use of the technology. The announcement was dated February 12, 2018.
