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15 ■ JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2023 MACHINERY MATTERS
the supply chain. Nichol said, “Matthews has installed TUN labellers capable of applying labels at 160 cases per minute. Our solution consisted of four labellers providing CCEP with a zero-downtime solution allowing them to continue running while changing labels. Their line never stops.”
Nichol explained that at the palletiser, Matthews has two print-and-apply SSCC pallet labellers that apply GS1 compliant labels to each pallet. This system ensures that the pallet, once complete, can be dispatched into the supply chain where it can be automatically scanned through Coles and Woolworths DCs uninterrupted.
“Matthews iDSnet software passes all the completed pallet data back to CCEP where they can update their inventory with finished goods,” Nichol said.
Matthews CEO Mark Dingley describes the level of technology, flexibility and systems capability across the line as “next level”. Dingley said: “I’m proud that Matthews and our very own iDSnet had a role to play in achieving such a successful outcome for CCEP.”
Sustainability built in
The advantage of investing in new technology plays out in increased efficiency and sustainability, and this line lays claim to being the most sustainable production line in the company’s Australian operations, delivering considerable water and energy saving efficiencies.
The plant uses less water than existing can lines and CCEP estimates it will save more than six Olympic-sized swimming pools of water every year.
The company also expects its energy use to drop by around 160,000 kilowatt hours each year, mainly because the equipment can fill cans at room temperature; eliminating the energy normally used to cool liquid as part of the filling process.
CCEP vice president and general manager of Australia, the Pacific and Indonesia, Peter West, said the facility reflected the company’s “value-chain approach” to operations.
“This new can line at Moorabbin allows us to make a larger range of canned beverages from across our portfolio of non-alcoholic and alcoholic brands locally in Victoria, meaning our products are closer to the end-consumer. This minimises freight movements and, in turn, helps to reduce carbon emissions,” West said.
Orlando Rodriguez, vice president of Supply Chain – Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, said: “The requirement to move product between states in a country as vast as Australia contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and reducing this is a challenging task, but it’s not impossible.
“Our continued investment in more efficient infrastructure at our facilities will play a role.”
West also said the Moorabbin site has seen the company improve its gender equality goals by offering career opportunities for women in the supply chain.
“More than 50 per cent of the team on the new can line are women, and we’ve increased female representation across our Victorian supply chain workforce by over the past year,” he said.
New look DC
Near to the Moorabbin site is CCEP’s Mentone Distribution Centre (DC), which has installed a $17.4 million Swisslog Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS).
The ASRS has 12,000 additional pallet spaces to ensure it can support Moorabbin’s increased can production and the efficient dispatch of product orders in Australia’s southern states.
“Combined, the new infrastructure at Moorabbin and Mentone allows us to slash our inter-state freight by more than one million kilometres per year, cutting CO2 emissions by 830 tonnes,” said Rodriguez.
“These two major infrastructure projects work hand-in-glove to help us uphold our commitment to great people, great service and great beverages, done sustainably and we couldn’t be more pleased to see operational.” ■
ABOVE, FROM TOP: Two years in the making, CCEP's advanced canning line is up and running at Moorabbin production site. CCEP project lead David Holden is at left.
The new line will provide an additional 11 million cases of product to the Victorian market.
The Moorabbin plant has created job opportunities for women.
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