Coca‑Cola HBC Romania invests EUR 7 million in Timisoara plant

Coca‑Cola HBC Romania, the largest company in the local beverages industry, inaugurates today its most recent investment, of EUR 7 million: a high-speed can line in the company’s plant in Timisoara, with a maximum production capacity of 90,000 cans/hour. With this new significant investment made locally, Coca‑Cola HBC reafirms its long term and strong commitment to the Romanian market.

The new can line of the Coca‑Cola HBC Romania Timisoara plant is the fastest one existing currently on the local market and has a high degree of last generation automation. Its daily production capacity if of 2 million cans. Also, it is the most energy efficient line within the Timisoara plant (410 kW/h) and the line with the smallest consumption of water per litter of produced beverage (1.1L). The project began in November 2016 and the testing period was finalised in late May.

The new can bottling line is based on a state-of-the-art innovative filling system patented by Krones – European leader in supplying technology for producing drinks and packaging – and its operation is ensured by 4 trained professionals per shift, supported by experts from the other departments in the plant. With a maximum production capacity of 90,000 units per hour, in 330 ml CAN packaging and 500 ml CAN packaging, the new can line will serve both the Romanian market, as well other European markets in future.

The Coca‑Cola HBC plant in Timisoara was inaugurated on the 12 of August. 1995. At the time, it featured 3 production lines, which have all been replaced with new and modern equipment. The products produced in the plant include Coca‑Cola, all the Fanta range, Sprite, Schweppes, Nestea and Joy. The products serve both the Romanian market but also other countries where the plant in Timisoara exports - Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Hertegovina, Macedonia, Greece and other neighbouring countries. The packages which the plant in Timisoara produces and bottles include, apart from the 330 ml and 500 ml CAN, the following: for carbonated soft drinks: 0.75 L PET (unique in Europe), 1.5 L PET, 2 L PET and 2.5 L PET, for products bottled in aseptic conditions: 500 ml PET and 1.5 L PET. In 2014, the Timisoara plant received the European Water Stewardship Gold Medal, a certification which proofs our commitment to applying a transparent, correct water stewardship policy and shows that Coca‑Cola HBC Romania’s operations and procedures are just and sustainable. All three plants of Coca‑Cola HBC have this EWS recognition, Romanian being the first country within Coca‑Cola HBC Group with all the plants (Ploiesti, Poiana Negrii and Timisoara) certified according to this standard.