Operations of Coca Cola

The procedure to make the product of coca cola is starts from making of syrup or beverage of the bottle and then making of bottles and Canes and the last step is filling of syrup in the bottles and canes. Operations of making of syrup: The drink is about 90% water. Coca cola company get the water from outside well. In the plant, the water is filtered. After the filtration of water, the water becomes clean. The second main ingredient is the sweetener. In most of the world sweetener is sugar but in US its high fruit corn syrup because it is readily available in the us market. High fruit corn syrup is cheaper than sugar. They pump the sweetener mixed in water into a 5000 gallon tank to create syrup with more than 15% of sweetener. Then carbonate the beverage. After that one bottle is tested. The two main things are tested. 1. CO2 volume (carbon dioxide ) it must be between 4.2-4.6 2. Sweetener volume which is measured in a unit called brix. This finished beverage is about 10% sweetener. This batch passes the test. Now they ready to pump the coke into container, lots of containers. Operations of making of bottles: Bottles are prepared in another factory. Bottlers factory mainly use the three types of containers. These are as follows: 1. Plastic bottles 2. Canes 3. Glass bottles 50% of all coca cola products are delivered in polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Pet is a plastic and the lot of people familiar with manufacturing of plastic bottles: To manufacturing the plastic bottles, it requires two stages operation. 1- Injection mold to perform 2- Heat the Perform to make the bottle. To make the Perform the factory pumps the PET into the injection molding machine. Inside this machine PET is melted at 550 F enough to melt the pellets. Then the machine injects that liquid plastic into a mold. The mold from the first stage of PET bottle, the Perform.

A Robot removes the Performs and passes them to another robot. These Robots drops the Performs into the conveyer. The factory has 15 yellow injections molding machines. Together they can move over a half million Performs in every hour. The Performs look like test tubes at this point. When the top is complete one little mold is but critical part on the top is called the supporter edge is about to help turn in keys in a single file order. It all happens in a machine called the Orienter. To make them flexible they recycle through a heater that takes them to 240 F. Now the Performs are soft enough too inflated like plastic balloons. After that Performs move forward to the neat step where they transformed in a bottle shape, is bottle shape mold. Once installed each mold will make two bottles. These molds are liquid cold water. This machine hold 20 molds and each mold make two bottles. Every revolution produces 40 bottles. As the performs enters to the molds, you cant see inside but heres what happens. The heated perform is loaded then a metal drops down and stretches them. Low pressure air expands the perform then the high pressure air inflates the perform and hits them to the edge of the mold. The edge of this mold is icy cold because of the chilled water piped into it. That cold water sets the bottle shape. The machine makes almost 800 bottles a minute and every one get his picture taken. These pictures are taken through the bottles edge and analyzed by a computer. Bottles that not measured up are recycled. The ones they make it. They take flight. The journey begins the bottle is ones again grabbed by the supporter edge. Its not a conveyer, its air wear because this system is powered by air. The bottles move down about half mile through the air wear track and truly reach the end of the line, the palletizer. The pair of robots sets them into a pallet. In less than 24 hours these bottles are rushed 170 miles from Hattiesburg to Baton Rouge coca cola bottling company. There the bottles be filled the best selling drink in history. Before the bottles can be filled by coca cola, they need to be put into a machine called depalletizer. The bottles run their final air wear journey to the filling row. The machine filled 800 bottles a minute. As the bottles come off the machine then they pressurize. The best thing is to remain pressure in the bottle is the cap of the bottle. The last step is labeling the bottles. After labeling they go for the widest journey in the factory spiral conveyer. The spiral takes the bottle 18 feet height. At the end of the line they take the few hurdles to orient them into a pallet layer. Once the pallet reaches seven layers its wrapped. The plant has two bottling line for sparkling the beverages. But the factories customers also want their coke in another container. The Making of Canes:

The machine 2200 canes filled per minute. The Baton Rouge coca cola bottling company gets his canes from a supply in olive branch Mississippi. Rexam Corporation is the worldwide manufacturer of beverage containers. The factory makes canes primarily for coca cola company beverages. Here canes starts from 20,000 pound aluminum coils. Each coil will make about 700,000 canes. The can making process is highly automated. More than 200 times a minute a punch presses forces through dye forming cups. Each punch of the press makes 14 cups. These cups take in the elevator to a buffer area then they distributed to the next machine. Then the cups moves to the next machine called body maker. Inside a punch forces the each cup through the series of dyes which decrease in size. The body maker needs a lot of lubricants to force the cups through its dyes. Thats why the canes emerge within oily residence. Now the canes enter the bath to remove the oil. One part of the bath includes sulfuric acid. Once the baths are complete then they move to cleaning bright. Now these clean and bright canes are ready to take on new igenity. Getting the signature coca cola logo on the canes states with the blanket being wrapped on a drum. That drum installed in a machine called a decorator essentially a printing press for the canes. That machine decorates 2000 canes per minute. Next step is to cover the canes with neck. The necking process happens in the machine as the speed over 2000 canes per minute. The finished canes would be in the warehouse and most of them are sent back to Baton Rouge coca cola bottling company. There they begin the fast move to filling. The filling machine can fill 1700 canes per minute. Thats more than twice as fast as plastic bottles. After filling up the canes the canes are covered by the caps and packed them then moves to wholesalers.