CCE Wakefield is a large soft drinks factory in West Yorkshire owned by Coca-Cola Enterprises UK; it is the largest soft-drinks factory in Europe (by volume of drinks produced).
| CCEP Wakefield | |
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 View of the can factory with the soft drinks plant behind (2009) | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Soft drinks factory |
| Address | Wakefield, WF2 0XR |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 53°43′08″N 1°31′16″W / 53.719°N 1.521°W |
| Elevation | 95 m (312 ft) |
| Current tenants | 450 staff |
| Cost | £90m |
| Client | Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages |
| Owner | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners |
| Website | |
| CCE Wakefield | |
History
editIt was built in 1989[1] at the Wakefield 41 Business Park in Outwood.[2] From the five years after 2009, Coca-Cola invested over £100m in the plant, and £240m had been invested at the site before 2009. The main office of CCEP is in Milton Keynes. The site was visited by David Cameron, when Prime Minister, in 2010 and June 2014.[3]
Coca-Cola has six factories in the UK.[4]
Production
editThe site produces 6,000 cans of soft drinks per minute, which is 100 per second, and up to 2,200 PET bottles a minute (HDPE bottle caps); this works out to up to one billion litres of soft drink a year. The factory can produce 40,000 PET bottles (empty) an hour.[5][6]
Next door is a factory of (former) Rexam, that produces the metal cans.[5] The plant sources its water from the nearby Ardsley Reservoir which is 1.2 miles (2 km) to the west.[7][8]
Structure
editIt is situated on the north of the Wakefield 41 industrial estate,[9] next to the M1 motorway, about 0.62 miles (1 km) from junction 41. It is about 980 feet (300 m) west of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). The site has an area the size of 16 football pitches, but when aggregated with the company's own solar farm (1.5 miles (2.4 km) further north), the footprint covers 33 football pitches.[10][11]
See also
edit- Arla Aylesbury, UK's and world's largest dairy
References
edit- ^ Robinson, Stuart (23 April 2013). "Jobs under threat at Wakefield Coca Cola plant UPDATED". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Have your say on Coca Cola wind turbine plans". Wakefield Express. 15 August 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Manufacturing Boost for CCE's Wakefield Facility". foodingredientsfirst.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ Ridler, James (25 November 2016). "Coca-Cola Scottish factory gets £2.3M investment". foodmanufacture.co.uk.
- ^ a b "Yes we can". foodmanufacture.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ Gibbons, Laurence (25 June 2014). "CCE's £13M Wakefield investment to boost economy". beveragedaily.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Coca-Cola Wakefield marks quarter century with investment milestone". themanufacturer.com. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "289" (Map). Leeds. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244869.
- ^ Mort, Don (23 June 2014). "Cameron and Osborne visit Wakefield Coca Cola plant". Pontefract and Castleford Express. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Coca-Cola European Partners : Wakefield". cokecce.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ Kinver, Mark (17 September 2012). "Lord Smith backs UK green growth". BBC News. Retrieved 21 November 2017.