UK: Coca-Cola Europacific Partners to invest £42.3 million in Wakefield facility

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the UK-based Coca-Cola bottler, has announced an investment of £42.3 million ($53.1 million) in its facility in Wakefield, UK.

The investment is for a new automated storage retrieval system (ASRS) that will more than double current warehouse capacity to over 58,000 pallets, and reduce annual vehicle journeys by 18,500.

In total, the facility has received £103 million ($129 million) in investment since 2019 to enhance efficiencies and allow it to operate more sustainably. This includes a new state-of-the-art canning line, capable of producing 2,000 cans per minute, which began operations in July.

“Wakefield offers a range of modern manufacturing jobs and sits at the heart of many of our latest manufacturing technologies”, commented Stephen Moorhouse, vice-president and general manager, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (GB).

Source: Coca-Cola Europacific Partners