Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines (PCPPI) will invest about PHP1.5bn ($34m) to put up three additional bottling lines in 2012, as part of its aim to expand its production capacity.
The company is investing about PHP500m ($12m) to PHP600m ($14m) in a new plant that will be put up in La Union in 2012, for which construction has commenced and operations are expected to begin at the end of 2012, abs-cbnnews.com reported.
In the proposed plant, PCPPI will bottle both carbonated soft drinks (CSD) and non-carbonated beverages (NCB).
Further in 2012, the company plans for two more bottling lines in Visayas and Mindanao, each costing PHP500m ($12m) on average. In Luzon, the company proposes to increase its production capacity by 10% in 2012.
In August 2011, PCPPI put up a new bottling line for CSD in Zamboanga, which was completed in early 2012 and a CSD and non-carbonated beverage NCB bottling line was also constructed in Cagayan de Oro in 2011 to produce NCBs in returnable glass bottles (RGB) for distribution in Mindanao.
Brands manufactured by the company include Pepsi, Sting, Tropicana Twister, Mountain Dew, Milkis, Gatorade, and Lipton.
