Coca-Cola Europacific Partners France announces a 114 million euro investment project to modernize and reconfigure its Grigny plant
The aim of the project is to increase storage capacity, optimize manufacturing processes and modernize the site's infrastructure.
Ideally located at the heart of France's largest consumption basin (Ile-de-France), in an industrial zone well connected to road infrastructures and with a large land reserve, the Grigny site is an essential hub in CCEP's industrial network in Ile-de-France. However, it faces limitations in its storage and production capacities, as well as severe operational constraints linked to its current configuration.
In addition, CCEP, which aims to expand its activities in the coming years, must continually adapt to changes in its environment, with strong pressure on the availability of storage space, particularly in the Paris region, but also a strong commitment to reducing the Group's carbon footprint, as well as demand for more diversified products and packaging requiring more flexible and efficient industrial tools.
This investment project will enable CCEP to contribute to making the French industrial network a leading-edge, competitive and sustainable asset. It follows on from the investment phase carried out at the Dunkirk site (€150 million over 5 years), and confirms the Group's ambitions for France.
François Gay-Bellile, CEO of CCEP France, comments: "This investment project is the fruit of a long-term industrial vision for CCEP in France and for the Grigny plant. It should enable us to develop a competitive industrial base ,while contributing to CCEP's ecological ambitions and improving the working environment for our teams".
In detail, the project will increase the site's finished goods storage capacity, with the construction of a new warehouse with a capacity of 15,000 pallets.
An increase in raw materials and packaging storage within the production building is also planned. The project will also optimize manufacturing processes, notably by redeveloping the current site (the W-shaped building built in 1986 to plans by architect Roger Taillibert) and increasing the capacity of the syrup room, so as to be able - eventually - to accommodate new production capacity.
Lastly, it would allow the creation of a new building to house a new canteen and new changing rooms to improve the working environment for employees.
By contributing to the modernization of its Grigny plant, this investment project also contributes to CCEP's environmental ambition of aiming for Net Zero Carbon by 2040. 3500 m2 of photovoltaic panels will be deployed on future extensions. The site would also be modernized to move towards all-electricity. A geothermal heat recovery project is also under study.
Information and consultation procedures with employee representatives began today and will continue over the coming weeks.
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