published on 23/11/09
A team of contract mechanical engineers will soon be busy as leading soft drinks producer has announced plans to invest £13million in a new can line at its UK Wakefield plant, the largest soft drinks manufacturing site in Europe. The investment will increase production by an additional 2,000 cans per minute.
The factory now produces over a million cans of product a day. When the mechanical engineers install the new production line this will increase the site’s capacity from over 66 cans per second to over 100 cans per second.
Since it commence production in 1989, hard working mechanical contract engineers have installed five additional PET lines. The engineers have considerable experience of mechanical handling equipment and are available as stand alone engineers or part of a team to carry out installations, servicing and re/pro active maintenance to the machinery.
The Wakefield site is the first to house its own pre-form area which will help remove transportation from the UK’s roads.

Read the full article at Soft Drinks International November 2009