Kirin Yokohama; Japan's super-brewery built on cooperation, technology, discipline. (Kirin Brewery Company Ltd.; includes related article on plant robots)

Beverage Industry, January, 1993 by Keck, Barbara

Kirin Brewery Company Ltd's new brewery in Yokohama, Japan, utilizes modern packaging, materials handling and warehousing technologies to meet efficient and fast-paced production standards. Workers at the Yokohama plant produce five different brews to meet growing consumer demand for individual beers. Five million hectoliters are packaged at the plant annually. The machines are fully automated and overseen by only two workers per line. Kirin also built the plant's engineering facilities.

Tokyo - If you are the fourth largest brewer in the world, and the market leader in Japan, what then does it take to redevelop an existing site in a heavily populated area near Tokyo, and come out with not only a showplace for production and consumer education about beer, but also one of...

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