Local Pepsi employee creates face shields from 2-liters

Local Pepsi employee creates face shields from 2-liters

Local Pepsi employee creates face shields from 2-liters

Here’s the Pres Release:

PEPSI™ BOTTLERS DONATE TWO LITER BOTTLES TO LOCAL HOSPITALS TO BE USED AS FACE SHIELDS

Ingenuity turns bottles into much needed face shields for hospital employees.

GREENVILLE, SC – APRIL 2020 – Local Pepsi™ bottling facilities, Pepsi of Greenville, SC, Pepsi of Florence, SC, and Minges Bottling Group of Ayden, NC, together with manufacturing co-op partner Carolina Canners Inc. (CCI) of Cheraw, SC, to donate more than 1,200 2-liter bottles to local hospitals. The bottles will be made into face shields to protect critical hospital employees.

The initial request came from a nurse practitioner in Greenville, SC, who works with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System. Her husband fashioned a mask out of a Pepsi 2-liter bottle and asked if the local bottler would be willing to donate a few more, so that he could continue making them for other hospital employees. The nurse stated that the Pepsi 2-liter bottles were the perfect shape for the masks.

Eager to help, Carolina Canners Inc. and Pepsi of Greenville, SC promptly sent 50 bottles to the nurse in Greenville, SC. After sharing a picture of the prototype with McLeod Health in Florence, SC, another request came in for an additional donation of 1,000 2-liter bottles. Again, Carolina Canners Inc. and Pepsi of Florence were more than happy to oblige. Most recently a similar request came in from a hospital in Greenville, NC. And once again, CCI and Minges Bottling Group of Ayden, NC stepped in to help.

“When three different hospital systems contacted us about providing two liter bottles in order to make medical face shields, we were more than happy to assist” said Jeff Stevens, CEO of Carolina Canners Inc. “It really warmed my heart to know that, in addition to providing much needed beverages for families in our communities during this difficult time, we could offer assistance to local medical professionals. They truly are the heroes, and we feel honored to help them in any way.”

Carolina Canners, Inc. is a production co-op for several independent Pepsi bottlers in North and South Carolina including Pepsi of Florence, SC, Pepsi of Greenville, SC, and Minges Bottling Group of Ayden, NC. For more than 75 years, the bottlers have distributed PepsiCo Beverages to their communities. The company purchases PET resin locally from Nanya Plastics in Lake City, SC and injects preforms to be used in state of the art, high speed bottling lines that blow and fill bottles at a rate of 1000 bottles per minute.

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CONTACT: Amity Aldridge
CELL: 919-740-4791
EMAIL: amity.aldridge@carolinacanners.com
Carolina Canners, Inc
300 Hwy 1 South
Cheraw, SC 29520

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