Vince Cable has openly backed the £50m investment from Coca-Cola to develop sustainable manufacturing facilities at its Wakefield plant. The bottling plant at Wakefield already boasts green credentials as it does not send waste to landfill, and has been certified to the new international energy management standard.

He said:  “I welcome Coca-Cola’s new £50M investment programme in green technology and their ambitions to grow UK production. This investment is a major signal of confidence in the British economy.”

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