| CCEP Wakefield | |
| Map Type: | United Kingdom West Yorkshire#England |
| Altitude: | 950NaN0 |
| Building Type: | Soft drinks factory |
| Cost: | £90m |
| Client: | Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages |
| Owner: | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners |
| Current Tenants: | 450 staff |
| Address: | Wakefield, WF2 0XR |
| Location Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.719°N -1.521°W |
| Website: | CCE Wakefield |
CCE Wakefield is a large soft drinks factory in West Yorkshire owned by Coca-Cola Enterprises UK; it is the largest soft-drinks factory in Europe (by volume of drinks produced).
It was built in 1989[1] at the Wakefield 41 Business Park in Outwood.[2] From the five years after 2009, Coca-Cola invested over £100m in the plant, and £240m had been invested at the site before 2009. The main office of CCEP is in Milton Keynes. The site was visited by David Cameron, when Prime Minister, in 2010 and June 2014.[3]
Coca-Cola has six factories in the UK.[4]
The site produces 6,000 cans of soft drinks per minute, which is 100 per second, and up to 2,200 PET bottles a minute (HDPE bottle caps); this works out to up to one billion litres of soft drink a year. The factory can produce 40,000 PET bottles (empty) an hour.[5] [6]
Next door is a factory of (former) Rexam, that produces the metal cans. The plant sources its water from the nearby Ardsley Reservoir which is 2km (01miles) to the west.[7] [8]
It is situated on the north of the Wakefield 41 industrial estate,[9] next to the M1 motorway, about 1km (01miles) from junction 41. It is about 300m (1,000feet) west of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). The site has an area the size of 16 football pitches, but when aggregated with the company's own solar farm (further north), the footprint covers 33 football pitches.[10] [11]