Quinn Glass, a major player in the UK beverage industry, has relaunched its specialist bottling division under the new branding ‘Cobevco’.
With market demand for bulk filling services increasing in the UK, the renamed division will bottle beverages that are bulk imported into the UK – and those produced domestically – on behalf of producers, importers and merchants from all over the world.
The Cobevco bottling operation will be housed at Quinn’s existing plant in Cheshire, north-west England, which provides a fully integrated supply chain solution including glass manufacture, bottling, bonded storage and onward distribution to the UK and Europe.
The move is part of a £500 million investment by Quinn in its two purpose-built manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland and Cheshire.
“As the beverage market becomes increasingly globalised, products need to travel larger distances to get to market, which can be costly,” says Adrian Curry, managing director at Cobevco.
“Overheads within the supply chain are also escalating because of rising fuel prices and duty fees. As a result, a growing number of producers are utilising bulk importing and bottling at destination as a more efficient and environmentally sound route to market.”
As a specialist bottling brand, Curry adds, Cobevco will meet this increased industry demand with a “highly efficient and responsive combination of facilities and expertise” to cater for both importers and home producers.
With five high speed Krones bottling lines, a GEA processing plant, a laboratory manned seven days a week and a fully-trained panel of tasters in-house, Cobevco’s 21,600sqm bottling facility is capable of filling and packaging more than 5 million litres of wine, beer, cider, spirits and soft drinks per week.
The plant is overseen by an experienced team of experts, several of whom have more than 40 years’ experience in areas such as oenology, beer brewing, chemistry and microbiology.
“By launching Cobevco, we have been able to bring our already significant bottling expertise together under one brand and make provisions for the increased demands of the drinks sector,” says Curry.
Quinn Glass - new Cobevco branding for bottling division Cobevco bottling line, Quinn Glass
