REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL VISIT

OF KANDHARI BEVERAGES PVT. LTD.

Prepared By
ROBIN GARG
RAYAT & BAHRA COLLEGE

Submitted to
The Head of the Department
Department of MBA
RAYAT & BARHA COLLEGE

RAYAT & BARHA COLLEGE

The Head of the Department

Department of MBA
RAYAT & BAHRA COLLEGE
Dear Sir,
Sub: Report of the One Day industrial visit
On an opportunity of our first visit at KANDHARI BEVERAGE pvt. Ltd. students with four
faculty members (Mrs. Jaspreet , Mrs Geeta, Mrs Razia and Mr. Jashan) went on an industrial
visit to the Kandhari beverage Coca Cola Company on 16-09-14. We all assembled at the
college at 9:30 a.m. and left the college in a college bus. We reached the KANDHARI
BEVERAGE at 11 oclock. KANDHARI BEWRAGE Members charge of production received
us at the entrance and gave a brief introduction to the company. The visit came to an end at
1.00p.m.
We left the premises at 1.30p.m. It was an informative, interesting and a successful visit. As
students of BCA and MBA, We went through with the manufacturing process of coca cola. We
express our thanks to the Principal who permitted us to go on the visit, the faculty members who
accompanied us and the officials who explained the various departments. Behalf the students I
request you to arrange more industrial visit for students which can practically train the students.
Thanking You
Robin Garg

INTRODUCTION
KANDHARI BEVERAGES PVT. LTD (KBPL) is the approved franchisee bottler for Coca Cola
India to bottle various soft soft drink brands owned by CCI. KBPL is situated in Nabipur village,
in Sirhind block, in Fatehgarh Sahib District. Geographically, the plant is located near the Delhi
Amritsar national highway (Shershah Suri Marg). The founder of this plant is Mr. jaspal singh
kandhari. CCI (COCA COLA INDIA) has two types of plants (COBO [Company-owned bottling
operations] or FOBO [Franchisee-owned bottling operations]). This plant is not owned and
operated by Coca-Cola but is a franchisee-based operation (FOBO). The plant was first
established in December 1999, though it commenced production of CSDs (carbonated soft
drinks) only after six months of its inception, that is, June 2000. The plant area lies in the
planned industrial area of Fatehgarh Sahib district where the government encouraged industries
to be set up. In view of this, a tax holiday was also given for promoting new industries. But, as of
now, KBPL, Nabipur, is the only largest industry in this region and no other big industries have
come up. The area, in spite of attempts of the government to set up industries, remains primarily
an agricultural area.
The plant mainly produces CSDs in RGBs (refillable glass bottles), and PET (polyethylene
terephthalate) bottles. AMCOR is the supplier of PET bottles, which is an Indian PET
manufacturer company. The plant uses groundwater for production purposes.

CAPACITY OF PLANT
The plant has one RGB line and one PET line. It installed one additional juice line in February
2004. Potentially, the plant has the capacity to produce 500 RGBs per minute while PET line can
produce 120 PET bottles per minute. The juice line, running at full swing, can produce 166
bottles per minute.

MAJOR PRODUCTS OF KBPL

COKE
DIET COKE
THUMBS UP
LIMCA
SPRITE
FANTA
MAZZA
PULPY ORANGE
NIMBU FRESH
KINLEY SODA WATER
ZERO COKE

MANUFACTURING PROCESS
The very first step of this process is to get water from deep earth through bore well. There are
two bore wells in KBPL. After getting water from earth it passes through 5 different purification
processes. First they store the water in water tanks having capacity of 15 KL each for chemical
dosing. Then it goes for sand filtration, carbon filtration, activated carbon filtration and
last for U.V light filtration. The water becomes free from pesticides, insecticides and all type of
impurities. The waste of water goes into A.T.P plant for further consumption. The plant is totally
automated. After every season they change the filters and as necessary. Second step is dissolution
of sucrose and flavor syrups. They produce 2400 liter of CSD (carbonated soft drinks) from 1
liter of syrup. Then another section comes where CO2 gas , and mixture of sucrose and flavors
filled into bottles through filter crowner. CO2 works as preservative, chilling property, low PH
and for taste. The filling of bottles happens at very low temperature and high pressure. The
output of machine is 420 B/M for thumbs up and varies from product to product. After all this
final bottles goes for its packaging.

PACKAGING PROCESS OF PET BOTTELS

CSR AND ENVIRNOMENTAL INTIATIVES BY

KBPL
Water-related corporate social responsibility initiatives: Representatives of the plant informed
that the CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiatives largely focus on community welfare and
the maintenance of good neighborly relations with the surrounding community. According to the
plant, all community initiatives are need based, as identified by the community. The unit reported
that a good relationship of the surrounding villages with the plant prevailed from the initial
stages. CSR initiatives are under the charge of the Director General and an assistant manager
who also has other responsibilities, for example, water resource management systems, in the
plant. Since scarcity of water was not reported in the surrounding villages, the plant did not
undertake any water initiatives till 2003. However, the plant management indicated that they plan
to construct an overhead tank in Nabipur as well as a few rainwater-harvesting structures in the
areas surrounding the plant. As per documents received from the CCI, the company
recommended the installation of a rainwater harvesting scheme at the plant in 2004.