Overview
- The plant, which opened on Monday, September 7, runs a fully automated production line that exceeds 30,000 bottles per hour and is expected to raise Bepensa’s returnable carbonated beverage capacity by about 30%.
- Bepensa and Industria Mexicana de Coca‑Cola invested more than 1,200 million pesos to build the facility in roughly 18 months on a 380,000 m² site with over 130,000 m² of constructed area.
- The operation is designed to supply roughly 25% of current demand in the Yucatán Peninsula and to strengthen logistics from Valladolid to Yucatán and Quintana Roo by leveraging the company’s existing regional routes.
- The plant incorporates Industry 4.0 systems and AI for real‑time monitoring, water treatment and rainwater capture, and will electrify about 10% of the local fleet; the company says production will focus on 100% returnable containers.
- Officials say the facility creates more than 200 direct jobs, emphasizes local technical training, and marks the first new Mexican plant dedicated to processing and packaging carbonated beverages since the late 1990s.