In 2003 Cott, the world’s largest retailer brand beverage company, invested in the dry lubrication systems and expertise of Dry Lube at their site in Nelson to provide their production lines with better efficiencies as well as to meet their environmental and financial targets.
Long before sustainability became a matter of public interest Cott pursued a number of environmental practices to meet their strong environmental targets. The investment in dry lubrication has been a beneficial factor in achieving excellent environmental performance and commitment. At its facility in Nelson the water, energy and CO2 savings that have derived from the dry lube
Cott company philosophy is that their success lies in the production of innovative, high quality retail brand beverages combined with world class packaging. These passions for innovation lead them to invest in the Dry Lube lubrication systems in order to enhance environmental performance and reduce costs. At present, Cott uses dry lubrication on 4 PET bottling lines at its facility in Nelson.
Simon Knaggs, Site Engineering Support Manager comments on Dry Lube’s system and service:
“We are satisfied with the system that apart from water savings delivers benefits such as less fallen bottles and better production flow. We receive good skills and knowledge from their engineers and are especially happy with the call out response we have if an issue might occur.”
Cott is the leading supplier of private label carbonated soft drinks distributing to over 50 countries around the world. It engages in producing packaging and distributing beverages all over the world serving a host of grocery, mass merchandise and drug store chains and whole sale and convenience chains. The ever expanding product line now includes its own brands in many new drinks such as ready to drink teas, sparkling and flavoured waters, sport and energy drinks, juice drinks and smoothies.
