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Liberty Coca-Cola to create its own energy, recover CO2

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April 20, 2023

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, a Philadelphia based bottler, has teamed with Clarke Energy USA Inc., a Kohler company, to create what the company believes to be the first "quadgeneration" production plant in the U.S. to create its own energy and recover carbon dioxide for beverage production.

A local planning board recently approved the plans, paving the way for installation at the bottler's Elmsford, New York facility by the end of the year, according to a press release.

Generating energy using combined heat and power technology will deliver carbon savings versus grid sourced electricity. Additionally, recovering carbon dioxide further improves the environment.

The new technology will allow the company to recover carbon dioxide directly from the engine exhaust systems and clean it to create beverage-grade quality carbon dioxide. The process will eliminate hundreds of trucks annually from the local roads.

The company has installed quadgeneration plants in several countries across Europe and Africa.

The Elmsford production facility is the first in the U.S.