Published: Sunday | October 28, 20120 Comments
The Red Stripe Jamaica brewery at Spanish Town Road, Kingston.-File
Sabrina Gordon, Business Reporter
Beer maker Red Stripe Jamaica will be investing half-billion dollars to modernise its Kingston plant.
The plan requires not only new equipment but also a reconfiguration of the plant.
"Historically, the brewery has been built as a kind of conventional cellars where we put all the tanks in a room, cool the room and cool the tanks," said Cedric Blair, newly appointed general manager of Red Stripe Jamaica.
"No brewery is built that way anymore, so we are actually building a brewery outside and will close those buildings and vessels down and install external tanks that will help us reduce our energy consumption, reduce water consumption and will use significantly less footprint," Blair told Sunday Business.
Red Stripe will spend US$6 million (J$546 million) on the project, which will be done in phases lasting up to three years.
excess space
Blair said the new facility will cover a much smaller area of the complex, and that the excess space would be used for storage and other functions.
The complex, including the space occupied by distribution partner Pepsi Jamaica, is about 85 acres, the new GM said.
"We will use a fraction of the size of the facility for the new plant," said Blair on the margins of Red Stripe's annual general meeting on Friday.
"We will be able to put this new updated brewery in about three to four acres - both the brewery house and the vessels. So we will knock down the old building, sell most of the tank and use the space for further redevelopment or storage of empty bottles," he said.
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