Plant Visit Report – Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd.

MANUFACTURING UNIT OF HCCBPL

The manufacturing unit of HCCBPL, situated at Pune, is the second largest plant and
one of the bottling operations owned by the company. The Plant has one PET line
which has the capacity of yielding 209 bottles, per minute, two RGB (Returnable
glass bottles) lines which yields 600 bottles per minute each and one Juice line
which yield 155 bottles per minute. It caters to the whole of west zone through a
network of more than 80 distributors.

Manufacturing Plant,
Pune

Sales and Distribution

Operations

Distributors Outlets

Outlets

Fig. Supply Chain followed from Manufacturing to Distribution

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 Plant Visit Report – Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd.

MANUFACTURING PROCESS AT HCCBPL

The manufacturing of the products of Coca-Cola involves the following steps:

• Water is received from the nearby water resources and it passes through the
water treatment plant, further passing through the sand filter and the activated
carbon filter, so as to attain pure cleansed water.
• In the syrup room, the concentrate received from another bottling plant
situated at Pune, is blended with the sugar syrup
• Once both the water and the final syrup are ready, they are both mixed
together and sent to the carbonator section where Carbon Dioxide is added to
the mixture to form the final product.
• On the other hand, simultaneously, the returnable glass bottles are
depalletized, inspected and washed for the purpose of filling in the final
product in it. This step does not take place in the PET bottle line as the bottles
once used are disposed.
• The product is finally filled in the bottles, crowned (in case of RGB)/ capped
(in case of PET bottles), labelled and cased in order to be sent into the
warehouse for distribution.

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