Coca-Cola Co set up the world's fastest bottling line recently in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, as the United States-based global beverage giant looks to further expand its manufacturing capacity and investment in China.

The new line at COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd (CBL) can make 120,000 cans every hour, making it the fastest fully automatic production line in the world, according to Ching Lijun, CEO of CBL. The current industry average is between 66,000 cans and 90,000 cans every hour.

The bottling line, which can produce 260,000 metric tons of products annually with a value of 1.3 billion yuan ($183 million), is also the only automatic production line in the global Coca-Cola system that can realize a variety of different packaging specifications at the same time, he said.

The Chengdu line was a recent update in the company's manufacturing capacity and investment in the southwestern province, which includes three new lines set up last year. The company's first plant was built 21 years ago in Chengdu.