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CCE Opens Green Plant in Oregon |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:56 |
Coca-Cola Enterprises <http://www.cokecce.com/> officially marked the expansion of its Wilsonville, Ore., June 10, with a "green ribbon-cutting" ceremony including gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber, Wilsonville Mayor Tim Knapp and members of Coca-Cola Enterprises' senior leadership team.
The company recently consolidated three Northwest area facilities (Tualatin, The Dalles and Woodland, Wash.) into its Wilsonville plant. Despite the closures, the consolidation and expansion has helped the company add jobs and reduce their environmental footprint, the company says.
By creating additional storage space for the company's products in Wilsonville, the company can ship Dasani water directly from the bottling facility instead of being bottled, shipped to other facilities for storage and then shipped to retailers. This effort will save an average of 112 truckloads and 79,000 truck miles every year.
"The expansion of this existing production facility in Wilsonville and the new Distribution Center here help us to maximize efficiencies in our supply chain and enable us to minimize our environmental footprint as we service our Oregon franchise territory," says Terry Fitch, vice president and general manager, West Business Unit, Coca-Cola Enterprises.
The expanded facility also incorporates a number of green features, including some of the most water-efficient bottling lines in the country, which use 1.2 liters of water for every 1 liter of beverages produced. The facility currently recycles 98 percent of its waste and is one of only 10 bottling facilities in the country that recycle 90 percent of waste or more. The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Oregon currently has five hybrid electric trucks in its fleet, each of which represents a 30 percent reduction in fuel consumption, and a reduction in CO₂ emissions of nearly one-third.
Coca-Cola Enterprises has made significant efforts at reducing the impact of its packaging, unveiling the PlantBottle in 2009. The bottle is made from 30 percent plant-based plastic and is fully recyclable; the Northwest is currently the only region to bottle all Coca-Cola beverages in the bottles, which are produced at a plant in Fife, Wash.
Coca-Cola Enterprises is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 15 percent by 2020, as compared to its 2007 baseline.
For more information about CCE’s commitment to Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, please visit http://crs.cokecce.com.
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