Coca-Cola Amatil invests $35m in bottling facility
The Hon Michael Atkinson, MP member for Croydon and MD of Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) Australia, Warwick White, has officially opened two new blowfill lines at the company’s Thebarton production facility in Adelaide.
The Hon Michael Atkinson, MP member for Croydon and MD of Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) Australia, Warwick White, has officially opened two new blowfill lines at the company’s Thebarton production facility in Adelaide.
Blowfill technology represents a $35m investment in CCA’s south Australian operation, and enables CCA to design and manufacture its own PET beverage bottles using less raw materials, the company said.
White said: “The introduction of this technology has enabled us to redesign and lightweight our entire small carbonated soft drink and water PET bottle range. With innovation comes benefits which, in this case, are good for CCA, our customers and the communities we operate in. They include significant cost savings, production efficiency gains, increased product shelf life and stacking ability.
“Blowfill is also delivering against our key environmental sustainability goals in both energy and water savings and is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of our beverage containers by over 20%. A significant portion of these savings will come from bottle redesigns that use less PET resin, with others from the elimination of the need to transport empty bottles to CCA bottling facilities, and energy savings on the line.
“This investment continues our light-weighting journey, a journey which has already seen CCA achieve a 20% increase in packaging raw material efficiency since 2004.”
Source: Coca-Cola Amatil
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