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Nigeria Breweries builds can line at Aba Plant

By BusinessNews Staff on November 30, 2013

Nigeria Breweries Plc is set to commission an ultra-modern can line at its Aba Brewery Plant.

The can line is one of the projects being executed in the ongoing expansion of the plant, which is expected to scale up the production capacity of the plant from 1.2 million hectolitres (HL) to 2.4 HL per annum in 2014. The project is estimated to gulp about N17 billion.

Ukeje Udah, the brewery manager, said that the plant will start producing can products before the end of this year (2013). Also ready for commissioning is a new water treatment plant.

“The canning line is currently on start up,” he said. “We have carried out series of tests on it – including I.O test, water test and we are now fine tuning to get it ready for commissioning and very soon we will have can products coming out from that line and that will be before the end of this year.”

He, however stated that the new brewery house, which would have been commissioned alongside the canning line, will now be commissioned in the first quarter of 2014, a development he attributed to delays in getting materials from abroad. Also to be commissioned next year is the waste water treatment plant.

The plant contributes 51 per cent of the company’s products in the South-South area of the country and contributes 21 per cent of the total volume of the company’s products in the country.

[Nigerian Telegraph]

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