The startup also plans to use the money to develop products for processing wastewater and delivering purified water for industrial operations such as oil and gas or beverage production, Green said.

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These boxes can coordinate the more complex arrays of tasks required in food, beverage and paper plants--new territory for Rockwell--and zip production data to back-office computers so customers can react sooner to blips in supply and demand.

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While a PepsiCo India spokesman says that production figures relating to individual bottlers are not in the public domain, he confirms that half its beverage volume is from seven franchise bottlers of which Varun Beverages is the biggest.

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