Coca-cola invests over $100m in bottling technology

Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc has invested over $100 million (about N165 billion) in technol­ogy bottling process in the last couple of years.

This was disclosed by the firm recently shortly after a facility tour of its bottling plant in Agidingbi, Ikeja.
According to the firm, the manufacturing process of its bottling plant across Nigeria shows a semblance of international standards. NBC also explained that it leverages on technology and high level of scrutiny to maintain and achieve high level of hygiene and quality standards, while reiterating its commitment to leverage more on latest technology and trends.
The Ikeja Plant Manager, Mr. Remi Bodunrin, dis­closed that part of the com­pany’s quality assurance strategies is identifying critical control points within the plant and ensuring more attention is given to those areas to enable the company deliver on its promise of good and quality products to its over 160 million con­sumers.
He stated that beside ensuring that the crates brought into the plant are sanitised, there is an all surface electronic bottle in­spector that would ensure that only clean bottles are allowed to be filled with contents.
“In ensuring that only products good for human consumption go out to the public, we have put up a mechanism that ensures that in our filling room, there is no human intervention in the blending system, there­by ruling out human error and sabotage.”
Speaking earlier, the company’s Head, Public Af­fairs and Communications, Mr. Uzo Odenigbo, dis­closed that strategies have been put in place to prevent pet bottles from constituting environmental nuisance.
He stated that NBC has a collection spot in Lagos where wastes generated by the company are managed, adding that part of the com­pany’s developmental plan was to ensure it attains a bottle-to-bottle re-cycling stage that would enable the company sell, bring back the used bottle and recycle in another form by the year 2020.
While reiterating the company’s commitment to the nation’s business en­vironment, Odenigbo dis­closed that over N2 billion was paid by the company from 2008 to 2013 as a demonstration of its corpo­rate citizenry status.