Tour opportunity to Coca-Cola's Wakefield plant

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Works Management is offering readers the opportunity to visit Coca-Cola’s production site in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on 29 September.

Visitors will be able to see world-class manufacturing operational routines at the largest soft drinks plant by volume in Europe.

Over 100 million cases of Coca-Cola are manufactured and distributed from the site per year.

Guests will discover how the management team ensure maximum quality, even when producing 6,000 cans and 2,200 PET bottles per minute. As well as the tour, Coca-Cola are offering a series of workshops, focusing on:

● Employee engagement

● Achieving world-class safety and quality

● Excellence in manufacturing

● High-paced warehouse solutions

The tour will also highlight how the team have harnessed employee-led innovation to meet KPIs and reduce waste (the site has seen water consumption fall by 50% in the past decade), and how to implement Coca-Cola’s initiatives at your own site.

The Wakefield site features a unique energy-saving ‘Monitoring and Targeting’ system, which has helped the plant achieve energy savings of 21.5% in the past decade, plus a fully automated, 30,000 pallet capacity warehouse.

Tickets are priced at £400 per person (excluding VAT), or £360 per person (excluding VAT) for groups of three or more.

Book here