Plans submitted to Wakefield Council would see four Nitrous Oxide tanks and a Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) containerised generation plant installed at the existing facility on Kenmore Road.
The four tanks will vary in height between 3.7 meters and 7.4 metres, while the containerised generation plant will measure 50.4 meters in length, 37 metres in width and will have a height of 35.6 metres. The pipe gantry will support pipework over the site circulation road to the main building at a height of 5.4 metres to the underside
Reduce deliveries
In a statement submitted with the planning application, CCEP said: “As part of the manufacturing process, CCEP use Nitrogen which is delivered by tankers to the site from external suppliers. The proposed Nitrogen generation plant will reduce the number of deliveries, with obvious environmental and cost benefits.
“The proposed plant will incorporate sophisticated systems for the detection and warning of Nitrogen leaks.”
CCEP announced in November it was investing £42.3m into a new automated storage retrieval system warehouse at its Wakefield site.
Wakefield investment
The system would allow the facility to hold and move an additional 29,5000 pallets on top of its current capacity of 29,000 pallets while reducing the number of vehicle journeys per year by 19,5000 – the equivalent of 441,000km annually.
The site has received more than £103m in investment since 2019 to enhance efficiencies and operate more sustainably. The Coca Cola, Fanta and Monster bottler hires 550 members of staff at the Wakefield plant.
Meanwhile, Dawn Meats has invested €1.5m (£1.27m) in a newly completed solar panel project at its Grannagh, County Waterford production site.
Energy generated by the new solar facility will be enough to power 210 homes for an entire year and is expected to deliver a return on investment in 4.5 years – depending on future electivity unit price rates.
