CCE Wakefield

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CCEP Wakefield
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General information
TypeSoft drinks factory
AddressWakefield, WF2 0XR
CountryEngland
Coordinates 53°43′08″N1°31′16″W / 53.719°N 1.521°W / 53.719; -1.521
Elevation95 m (312 ft)
Current tenants450 staff
Completed1989
Inaugurated2 October 1989
Cost£90m
ClientCoca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages
Owner Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
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CCE Wakefield

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).

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History

Construction

In March 1988 Schweppes and Coca-Cola announced that they would jointly build the largest soft drinks factory in Europe, to cost £55m. [1] It would be built by 1991, with 470 employees. [2] [3] The joint venture of Schweppes and Coca Cola had UK sales of £450m.

Hoval boilers were installed, three of 4000kW, made in Newark-on-Trent. [4] [5] There was a £300000 order for 26 stainless steel vessels for Wincanton Engineering of Sherborne. [6] Most of the plant was designed in Uxbridge. Nacanco operated the canning plant.

It was built in 1989 [7] at the Wakefield 41 Business Park in Outwood. [8]

Opening

In April 1988 a single-union agreement was signed with the Amalgamated Engineering Union. In August 1988 the Transport and General Workers' Union threatened action at Coca Cola's 26 plants in the UK, if the agreement went ahead. 900 TGWU workers at Coca Cola plants started a work to rule, and an overtime ban in August 1988.

It was officially opened on 2 October 1989. In 1989 it could produce 4,000 cans per minute; by late 1990 it was making 6,000 cans per minute. The Lingwall Gate Action Group claimed that the canning facility made air pollution. 220,000 trees were planted.

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.

Coca-Cola has six factories in the UK. [9]

Visits

Production

The 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. [12] [13]

Next door is a factory of (former) Rexam, that produces the metal cans. [12] The plant sources its water from the nearby Ardsley Reservoir which is 1.2 miles (2 km) to the west. [14] [15]

Production in the UK

It produces a third of the UK's requirement.

Coca-Cola had wanted to build a similar plant for south of England. Swindon rejected their plans on 27 February 1990. [16] In October 1990 Coca-Cola decided to open a 54 acre site in Northampton, but never did. [17]

Coca-Cola had a four acre distribution centre at Winwick Quay near Warrington; this was sold in 1993 and moved distribution to Wakefield. [18]

Incidents

Contract worker 42 year old David Douglas fell 30 ft through a roof and died in Pinderfields Hospital on 21 September 1995. [19]

Structure

It is situated on the north of the Wakefield 41 industrial estate, [20] next to the M1 motorway, about 0.62 miles (1 km) from junction 41. 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. [21] [22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star Thursday 3 March 1988, page 33
  2. ↑ South Wales Echo Friday 4 March 1988
  3. ↑ Manchester Evening News Friday 4 March 1988, page 35
  4. ↑ Newark Advertiser Friday 23 December 1988, page 36
  5. ↑ Newark Advertiser Friday 12 January 1990, page 37
  6. ↑ Bristol Evening Post Tuesday 30 May 1989, page 11
  7. ↑ Robinson, Stuart (23 April 2013). "Jobs under threat at Wakefield Coca Cola plant UPDATED". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Have your say on Coca Cola wind turbine plans". Wakefield Express. 15 August 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Ridler, James (25 November 2016). "Coca-Cola Scottish factory gets £2.3M investment". foodmanufacture.co.uk.
  10. ↑ Times Monday October 22 1990, page 16
  11. ↑ "Manufacturing Boost for CCE's Wakefield Facility". foodingredientsfirst.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  12. 1 2 "Yes we can". foodmanufacture.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  13. ↑ Gibbons, Laurence (25 June 2014). "CCE's £13M Wakefield investment to boost economy". beveragedaily.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  14. ↑ "Coca-Cola Wakefield marks quarter century with investment milestone". themanufacturer.com. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  15. ↑ "289" (Map). Leeds. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN   9780319244869.
  16. ↑ Northampton Chronicle and Echo Tuesday 27 March 1990, page 17
  17. ↑ Northampton Chronicle and Echo Wednesday 31 October 1990, page 1
  18. ↑ Manchester Evening News Tuesday 18 May 1993, page 50
  19. ↑ Lincolnshire Echo Thursday 21 September 1995, page 28
  20. ↑ Mort, Don (23 June 2014). "Cameron and Osborne visit Wakefield Coca Cola plant". Pontefract and Castleford Express. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  21. ↑ "Coca-Cola European Partners : Wakefield". cokecce.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  22. ↑ Kinver, Mark (17 September 2012). "Lord Smith backs UK green growth". BBC News. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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