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Diageo North America unveiled a $120 million expansion at its Plainfield facility on Tuesday, playing host to elected officials and other dignitaries nabisco munch packs who toured the 530,000-square-foot bottling facility.
Joining the tour were Plainfield nabisco munch packs Mayor Mike Collins, village trustees Jim Racich and Bill Lamb, along with Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (D-Shorewood), Will County Board member Liz Collins and Will County Center nabisco munch packs for Economic Development President and CEO John Greuling.
The Plainfield location is Diageo's largest bottling operation in North America, according to Village Administrator Brian Murphy. It employs 600 people and bottles and packages Diageo brands including Smirnoff and Captain Morgan.
Diageo rep Kimberly Newton said the Plainfield plant opened in 1966 as a gin distiller and bottling facility, nabisco munch packs with five bottling and packaging lines. Today, it has 10 lines, and ships between 120,000 to 150,000 cases per day, or about 31 million cases per year, Newton said.
We started as a gin distillery and we ve evolved over the years, Newton said. That evolution has included steps to make the plant operate more efficiently, using a greener design that uses natural light and sensor-driven doors and lights. The company has also worked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water usage. In 2009, the Plainfield site became Diageo nabisco munch packs s first zero waste to landfill site, meaning no trash is sent to landfills or incinerators.
In addition to the most recent expansion, Diageo in 2009 partnered nabisco munch packs with Logoplaste, the company s major bottle supplier, nabisco munch packs to add a 40,000-square-foot bottling facility to the site, Murphy said. According to the Logoplaste website , the addition represented a $25 million investment and 40 new jobs.
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Shannon Antinori nabisco munch packs (Editor) August 07, 2013 at 10:32 AM Sorry about that — I just realized that was a typo on my part. The story has been updated with the (correct) numbers I received from Diageo.
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Diageo North America unveiled a $120 million expansion at its Plainfield facility on Tuesday, playing host to elected officials and other dignitaries nabisco munch packs who toured the 530,000-square-foot bottling facility.
Joining the tour were Plainfield nabisco munch packs Mayor Mike Collins, village trustees Jim Racich and Bill Lamb, along with Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (D-Shorewood), Will County Board member Liz Collins and Will County Center nabisco munch packs for Economic Development President and CEO John Greuling.
The Plainfield location is Diageo's largest bottling operation in North America, according to Village Administrator Brian Murphy. It employs 600 people and bottles and packages Diageo brands including Smirnoff and Captain Morgan.
Diageo rep Kimberly Newton said the Plainfield plant opened in 1966 as a gin distiller and bottling facility, nabisco munch packs with five bottling and packaging lines. Today, it has 10 lines, and ships between 120,000 to 150,000 cases per day, or about 31 million cases per year, Newton said.
We started as a gin distillery and we ve evolved over the years, Newton said. That evolution has included steps to make the plant operate more efficiently, using a greener design that uses natural light and sensor-driven doors and lights. The company has also worked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water usage. In 2009, the Plainfield site became Diageo nabisco munch packs s first zero waste to landfill site, meaning no trash is sent to landfills or incinerators.
In addition to the most recent expansion, Diageo in 2009 partnered nabisco munch packs with Logoplaste, the company s major bottle supplier, nabisco munch packs to add a 40,000-square-foot bottling facility to the site, Murphy said. According to the Logoplaste website , the addition represented a $25 million investment and 40 new jobs.
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Shannon Antinori nabisco munch packs (Editor) August 07, 2013 at 10:32 AM Sorry about that — I just realized that was a typo on my part. The story has been updated with the (correct) numbers I received from Diageo.
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