Consolidated Coca-Cola plant opens in NI

Updated: 19:15, Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Coca-Cola has opened a new manufacturing, bottling and warehousing plant in Lisburn, Co Antrim.

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600 people will be employed at the facility.

In 2005, Coca-Cola announced its decision to consolidate production from its plants in Drogheda, Co Louth, Naas Road, Dublin, and Lambeg, Antrim, to a new site at Knockmore Hill, Lisburn.

256 jobs were lost with the closure of the Drogheda site in 2007.

The new facility will serve the entire Irish market - north and south of the border.

The company said that following an extensive review of potential sites across Ireland, the 45-acre site at Knockmore Hill was chosen because of its water supply, road access and proximity to its former plant in Lambeg.

Coca-Cola continues to employ more than 450 people in the Republic.

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