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Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages to deploy paperboard carrier for multipacks

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November 29, 2023

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, a Coca-Cola bottler serving Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York City, has teamed with WestRock, a provider of sustainable paper and packaging solutions, to implement a paperboard carrier that replaces plastic rings for its multipack bottled beverages, according to a press release.

WestRock's PETCollar Shield Plus paper-based packaging will be used at Liberty's Philadelphia production facility to package Coca-Cola's multipacks. The 12-ounce and 16.9-ounce products packaged with the carriers will be distributed throughout Liberty's multi-state territory.

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages expects to have the new paperboard carrier packaging system installed and operating by summer 2024. Once installed, the packaging system will add to the local bottler's paperboard packaging for mini-cans, implemented in 2022. Both packaging systems combined are expected to replace 200,000 pounds of plastic a year from Liberty's footprint.