SM Jaleel & Company Ltd, also known as SMJ, is the largest manufacturer of non alcoholic drinks in the English speaking

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. Since inception in 1924 their portfolio of

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are distributed to over 60 countries worldwide.

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SMJ’s products include a wide array of soft drinks, fruit juices, purified and flavoured water, energy drinks, and other fruit flavoured beverages. SMJ's blow molding facility is the largest in the Caribbean where they manufacture their own PET bottles in different shapes and sizes for their numerous products. The company was also the first in the world, in conjunction with Reynolds Metals Company, to fill fruit juices in aluminum cans using

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technology in the 1980s, thus eliminating the need for artificial preservatives in the product. Currently, SMJ’s products are found in over half a million wholesale and retail stores worldwide, including

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and other international retailers. The company has more than 2000 employees in five continents.

History

S.M. Jaleel was founded in 1924 by Sheik Mohameed Jaleel, and was located at the corner of Keate and Prince Alfred Streets in San Fernando,

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with a 25 member staff. History and Timeline Locations SM Jaleel's headquarters reside at the Otaheite Industrial Estate in South Oropouche, Trinidad and Tobago. There are subsidiary offices in

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, St. Lucia, South Africa and Asia.

Products Manufactured and Distributed by SMJ

Juices & Juice Drinks

* Fruta * Fruta Kool Kidz * Caribbean Cool * Trinidad Juices * Tampico * Trinidad Fresh Carbonated soft drinks * American Classic * Busta * Chubby * Cole Cold * Seagrams Water * Cool Runnings * Island Mist * Mt. Pelier * Oasis * Viva Energy drinks * Turbo Energy Drink Isotonic drinks * Altitude Iced teas * Island Fusion

Consideration for the Environment

* Approximately 10% of all virgin (rejected) bottles before being filled are sterilized and re-injected into the line. * Re-use of the liners that come with the pallets of empty cans, for lining the sugar pallets, and the stacked finished product. * Collection of wasted water in special pipe lines to re-use for cooling equipment on the plant. * Since 2004 SMJ has been making PET bottles lighter in weight by using less material in its composition to create less post consumer waste. * Sale of all post industrial material (returned bottles, cans and plastic), cardboard, pallets and metal drums to recycling companies. * Use of shredding machines both in Barbados, which shred returned plastic (PET) bottles (post consumption). The shredded plastic is packed in sacks and exported to international recycling companies. The PET flakes are used by these companies to make various things like carpeting, wall insulation, and polyester T-shirts. * Purchase of large quantities of oranges and grapefruit from local farmers for use in the freshly squeezed juice products (for Trinidad Juices - Not from concentrate). The peel from these fruits are processed to make animal feed.

References

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