KEO PLC is to build a new €25 million spirits bottling and distribution centre in Kato Polemidia, Limassol, in what the company describes as one of the largest private industrial projects in the district in recent years.
The company has submitted an Information Report to the relevant authorities for approval. Construction will begin once planning and building permits are secured and is expected to take 24 months, creating up to 50 direct jobs during the building phase.
The centre will be built on a 44,000 sq m site in the Archangelos Michail Parish of Kato Polemidia, adjoining the port’s access road and offering direct access to Limassol port and the Limassol-Paphos motorway. A further 9,612 sq m will be set aside and landscaped as public green space alongside the port road.
The main building will cover approximately 34,000 sq m across three levels. The basement, spanning 9,810 sq m, will serve as the primary storage area for imported raw materials, beers, and finished products, and will include temperature- and humidity-controlled ageing spaces for wines, Commandaria, and Eau de Vie in oak barrels. The ground floor, at 22,840 sq m, will house processing, blending, filtering, cooling, zivania and ouzo distillation, bottling, and packaging operations, as well as raw materials and finished goods warehousing and order preparation. The first floor, at 992 sq m, will accommodate offices and the administrative centre.
The new centre will operate alongside KEO’s existing winery in Malia, with wines produced there transferred to Kato Polemidia for final processing, ageing, and bottling. Imported raw materials will include bulk molasses alcohol, Eau de Vie, bulk wines, and rectified concentrated grape must.
Annual capacity for wine processing and bottling is estimated at between 1,000 and 2,500 tonnes. Total annual production across all product lines is expected to reach approximately 4,975 tonnes, including Tetra Pak juices (2,550 tonnes), bottled wines and spirits (870 tonnes), wines in BIB and Tetra Pak format (1,140 tonnes), squashes and PET bottle juices (250 tonnes), and canned juices (165 tonnes).