Region. Re-entering beer market

Speaking to investors during a tour of Coca-Cola Amatil’s Northmead and Eastern Creek plants, the company’s MD, of licensed beverages, John Murphy, said the company plans to re-enter the beer market when a two-year non-compete agreement with former partner SABMillier ends in December 2013.

Northmead. Things go better at Coke

Coca-Cola Amatil’s $45 million investment in two PET bottle-making lines, at its Northmead plant, was achieving substantial reductions in the cost of PET resin, freight and storage, according to CEO, Terry Davis. He said in The Australian Financial Review he would seek board approval soon to install similar lines at other facilities in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, at a cost of more than $300 million

Parramatta. Coke's sustainability initiative

Terry Davis, CEO, of Coca-Cola Amatil, says the company’s most significant sustainability initiative in 2010 will be to produce Australia’s lightest PET beverage bottle. The company plans to invest $45 million installing two new production units, at its Northmead plant. This follows the opening of an $85 million distribution centre, at Eastern Creek, in late 2009, which has 700 rooftop solar panels providing 150 megawat hours of green renewable energy, equating to 15 per cent of the centre’s annual energy needs. Also, the company will divert more than 600 tonnes of bottles and cans away from landfill through recycling contracts with major customers.

Parramatta. Coke to invest $45 million

Coca-Cola Amatil plans to invest $45 million next year installing two new production units, at its Northmead plant, in the first stage of manufacturing lightweight plastic bottles in its eastern states plants and avoiding the cost of trucking in and storing 200 million bottles annually. This is a blow to Visy Industries, which acquired CC Amatil’s PET bottle manufacturing operations, in 2002, for $157 million, and is CC Amatil’s sole supplier of PET bottles in Australia, according to The Australian Financial Review.