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Severn Trent Services has been awarded a contract by Britvic Soft Drinks, one of the two leading soft drink manufacturers in Great Britain, to provide water treatment equipment and services for the company's facilities in Beckton and Widford, England. Contract work began in August 2005, with work scheduled for completion at the Beckton site in January 2006 and at the Widford site in March 2006. The contract is valued at just under $2 million.
The contracted work will enable Britvic Soft Drinks to continue to meet the water quality standards of PepsiCo. Britvic is the U.K. bottling and distribution franchise for PepsiCo's Pepsi and 7up beverages.
At the Beckton site, Severn Trent Services will replace existing carbon filtration vessels with a system that is steam sterilisable. The company is responsible for the design, construction and installation of the system and the operator training of Britvic employees. The three carbon filtration vessels being installed will remove chlorine in the plant's process water. At the Widford site, the company is responsible for the design, construction and installation of a turnkey water treatment plant consisting of two production streams.
