Visiting the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, Indianapolis
Liz and I headed to Indy a little later than we expected. This past week has been a little hectic, so we left one day later than we had planned, catching our breath a little before heading home.
On arriving in Indy, we met up with my sister and my cousin Jenny. We, along with her husband Dan, all toured the Indianapolis Coca-Cola bottling plant (she works for Coke). This is us at the entrance, about to get our visitor badges and tour.
Me, complying with the rules.
The hairnet, from the side.
The first of many large stacks of Coca-Cola products.
Another large stack of Coke. Sadly, we saw some pretty spectacular machines and automated processes... but I wasn't allowed to photograph any of it. For a while, it was just like those video interstitials from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, where you got to see all the behind-the-scenes stuff at factories.
This tour was exactly like that.
Sadly, you'll just have to take my word for it that there were some pretty spectacular, neat machines. For a good while there, I was bummed that I couldn't record/share all the neat machinery at work.
A ton of blank/empty green 2-liter bottles.
Empty crates and palettes.
A pretty huge recycling area.
Closeup of one of the bales.
Near the entryway/exit.
Comments (4)
i find it interesting that there were only coke products in the recycling area.
Felix correct me if i'm wrong, but I think it's only this plant's recycling, hence all of the coke products. They don't take in any recycling from outside locations. (And they only recycling aluminum with 60% efficiency, which is the highest efficiency possible by our industry standards.)
Yeah, I think the recycling was specific to the plant or something along those lines. It wasn't like this was an open recycling area for ALL aluminum... it was specific to Coke products.
You should have seen the actual production machines and lines, where they were making all the various cans of Coke. I lost most of the details/numbers, but one stat I recall was that their machines kicked out something ridiculous like 60 cases of Coke per minute.
They go through a lot of aluminum here, so it's good they have recycling.
The "slow" machine filled 600 bottles (20 fl. oz. size) of coke every minute.