The beverage concentrate production plant that Coca Cola has started building in Liberia, Costa Rica, will measure 34,000 square meters and is scheduled to start operating in January 2020.
The plant will be located within the Zona Franca Solarium, in a plot of land measuring 103,000 m2. The factory will produce 90 compounds that are used for beverages that are exported to Central America, the Caribbean, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives said in a statement.
With an investment of close to $7 million, El Zapote Brewing Company was inaugurated, a company that will produce and market six types of craft beers in the local market.
The company will have production capacity of 2,500 liters per brewing session. They plan to market the product in supermarkets and local restaurants, in presentations of 20-liter barrels and 12-ounce bottles.
The beverage manufacturer Livsmart has expanded capacity at its plant in El Salvador, which will increase production in order to be able to export to Honduras and Nicaragua.
According to representatives of the drinks company Livsmart, with the new investment made in the plant located on the highway between San Salvador and Sonsonate, the value rose to $33 million, and the production lines increased from 12 to 14.
The Coca Cola company has announced that it will be building a production plant for raw materials in Liberia, which will replace the current one that operates in La Uruca, which will close in the short term.
The production plant will be built on an area of 103 thousand square meters in Liberia, Guanacaste, where earthmoving works have already started, as representatives of Coca Cola explained at a press conference.
Florida Ice and Farm's new plant in Costa Rica has capacity to produce up to 74 thousand cans of beer per hour.
The new facilities required an investment of $15 million in machinery and infrastructure, and will allow the company to increase its production capacity of beer and other alcoholic beverages by 40%.
Cervecería Hondureña has announced that it will be investing $25 million in the expansion of its beer production plant in San Pedro Sula.
The company, a member of the business conglomerate AB Inbev, explained that the expansion works will be completed within 10 months, once the process to obtain the necessary permits has been completed.
Florida Bebidas has submitted an environmental impact study to expand the capacity of its beer production plant in the province of Heredia, Costa Rica.
According to data from the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData com, Productora La Florida S.A. presented an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the project"Expansion of Beer Manufacturing Plant", located in the district of La Ribera, Canton of Belen, province of Heredia.
Dos Pinos, the largest producer and distributor of milk in Costa Rica has acquired a nondairy beverage production plant, which until now has been in the hands of Bebidas Mixtas de Centroamérica.
With the purchase of this plant the Costa Rican Cooperativa de Leche Dos Pinos is seeking to venture into the regional market of drinks such as fruit juices, soft drinks, teas and bottled water.
The Mexican juice maker has announced the closure of its production due to a reorientation of investments at the regional level.
The company announced through a press release the closure of operations starting from February 26 in the Central American country, where it set up in 2009 and in which invested about $20 million. After closing the factory, the company will keep only the marketing and distribution of products in the country.
Two companies are vying for the local market and exporting more than 40 different types of tea to Central America, the US and recently to China.
Mondaisa, one of the competitors, reports that demand in the international market is growing 20% a year, while in the local market it is growing by 11% a year. Meanwhile Manzate recorded an overall growth of 12%, and in the local market of about 6%.
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