Coca Cola opens US$100 'mega' factory in Ethiopia


World’s biggest beverage company, Coca Cola, has inaugurated a new mega factory in the Sebta City of Ethiopia, which is reported to be the largest of such factories in Africa.

The $100 million factory located 25 km from the capital, Addis Ababa, was inaugurated on Wednesday and is equipped with state of the art machinery which also is expected to create 30,000 job opportunities for the youths of the country.

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the factory which is reported to be the largest of such factories in Africa, the country’s Minister of Industry, Melaku Alebel, said “Coca-Cola is 60-years-old in this country and plays an irreplaceable role as a factory in Ethiopia. Today, the establishment of this factory in this city is a testament to the development activities in Ethiopia.”

In his own speech, President of Africa for the Coca-Cola company, Bruno Pietracci, said, "We have a project to better water usage across 41 countries in Africa we benefit more than 6000 families today, the second area that I want to touch on is package recycling we have the ambition that by 2030 we'll take back every single bottle that we put into the market

The factory which has a daily production potential of 70,000 racks of 24 bottles, according to Bruno Pietracci, President of Africa for the Coca-Cola company, will bring the group’s total manufacturing capacity in the country to 100 million cases per year and will make the country a stronghold of the group’s presence on the continent.

“We have a project to better water usage across 41 countries in Africa; we benefit more than 6, 000 families today. The second area that I want to touch on is package recycling.

“We have the ambition that by 2030, we’ll take back every single bottle that we put into the market,” said Pietracci.

Coca-Cola has operated for more than 60 years in Ethiopia and now has a total of four factories in the country while on the African continent, the group has factories carrying out its bottling activities in 13 countries and employs nearly 16,000 people.

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