Editor’s notes
The production and logistics centre at Edelstal:
- One of the company’s most modern and technologically advanced sites and employs about 350 people.
- All the electricity used on the site comes from green and renewable sources.
- Coca-Cola HBC has invested €148 million in the plant since it opened ten years ago.
- About 460 million litres of beverages from the comprehensive product portfolio are bottled each year.
- The new line sets new standards in terms of size and bottling speed: depending on the container size, up to 50,000 bottles per hour – that's almost 14 bottles per second – run off the line on an area of 2,100 m2.
- The new investment in the Edelstal site further supports Coca-Coal HBC’s net zero goals as the new line is more energy efficient. The site was also the first globally to have a ‘Digital Twin’ made of its production line, made and tested by Microsoft. The ‘Digital Twin’ creates an accurate digital model of a processing system to ensure that it runs as efficiently as possible. In just 12 weeks of the trial there has been no downtime, and the plant reduced energy usage by 9%.