Coca-Cola breaks ground for green bottling plant
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COCA-COLA (Yunnan) Beverage Co yesterday officially began construction of a new eco-friendly plant in Kunming City, Yunnan Province.
The new facility will replace a plant currently in operation in Kunming, tripling the number of bottling lines from four to 12.
The new plant represents a 1.2 billion yuan (US$185 million) investment and is part of the Coca-Cola system’s current US$4 billion investment plan which began in 2015 and will continue through 2017. This builds on the US$9 billion of investment made in China between 1979 and 2014, and underscores Coca-Cola’s strong confidence in the China market and its business growth in the southwest region.
Coca-Cola’s new Yunnan plant is located in the Majinpu New Town Industrial Base in Kunming National Hi-tech Industries Development Zone and covers an area of 195,632 square meters.
Upon completion, the plant will deliver an annual capacity of 423 million unit cases of beverage with both sparkling and still products, including brands like Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Ice Dew and Ice Dew Chunyue, to fulfill the fast increasing beverage demand of 47 million consumers in Yunnan province.
Coca-Cola’s new Yunnan plant adopts green building standards in various aspects from site selection, building environment, water-saving, energy-saving, air protection, material and resource utilization, indoor environment quality and design innovation.
The plant will strictly enforce the international certification system requirement for the Silver Certification of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Upon completion, it will become another modern and environmentally-friendly green plant of Coca-Cola.
Glen Walter, CEO of Coca-Cola Bottling Investments Group China, Marcelo Boffi, vice president of Coca-Cola China and Korea, and Li Jianhui, general manager of Coca-Cola (Yunnan) Beverage Co attended the groundbreaking ceremony together with local government officials.
“China is the third largest market for Coca-Cola globally and is pivotal to our global sales growth,” said Marcelo Boffi. “Since we announced a new US$4 billion investment plan in China in 2015, we have been actively delivering on our promise. The 1.2 billion yuan new plant will help further strengthen Coca-Cola’s market leadership in the southwest region.”
As one of the most influential large-sized foreign-invested enterprises in Yunnan Province, the new plant project has been highly recognized and won strong support from the local government and related authorities.
The new investment project will not only foster economic growth in Kunming, but also promote the development and upgrading of the region’s industry clusters.
“The new plant will become an important production base for Coca-Cola in China’s southwest region,” said Glen Walter. “This investment will not only provide strong support to Coca-Cola’s sustainable development in Yunnan, but also boost economic development locally by increasing job opportunities and enhancing collaboration.”
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