Beverage

Altmuhltaler Mineral Brunnen, Bottling Line
The filling mechanism being assembled.	The Contiform blow moulding machinery being configured.	PET bottles being transferred to the filling lines.
Filtration technology being installed.	PET bottles on the filling line are filled according to definite parameters.

Arla Foods Dairy and Bottling Facility, Leeds
An aseptic filling line such as the one installed at Arla Foods' new 'Super Dairy', which will predominantly process and package liquid milk for supermarkets and the extended shelf life (ESL) 'Cravendale PurFiltre' brand.	The filling valve at Arla Foods' Stourton dairy is a contact free arrangement to help meet the ultra-stringent hygiene requirements.	The success of the Cravendale PurFiltre milk brand has prompted the installation of additional bottling capacity at the new dairy before it is even completed.
The equipment being used is a new design from Krones since the hygiene requirements for bottling extended shelf life milk products are higher than normal.	The bottling lines will fill products for different suppliers and also with varying fat content, making frequent product changes necessary.	Tetrapak are to provide the plant with piping, tank storage and chilled tank storage for milk prior to bottling and during the filtration and treatment process.

Asia Pacific Breweries Production Facility Upgrade
Tiger Beer is one of APBS's leading brands in South East Asia.	The Innofill DRS-ZMS filling system uses a probe-sensor to determine filling levels.	The Innopas pasteurizer is considered the state-of-the-art in pasteurization technology.
This one Innoket machine can handle both sleeve labelling and shrink labelling.	Innopack has been flexibly designed so that it can handle all packing tasks.	Innopal AS Palletizer increases operational flexibility and helps reduce operating costs.

Britvic PET Stretch/Blow Moulding
The stretch blow moulding machines below have been used almost exclusively for the manufacture of PET bottles for the Robinsons Fruit Shoot soft drink.	Sig Corpoplast's BLOMAX Series III.	BLOMAX 16 stretch blow moulding system.
BLOMAX 16 is quick and easy to install and start up; no field wiring is necessary, and cables are reconnected by plug connectors.	Robinson's Orange Barley Water soft drink.

Britvic Soft Drinks Bottling Plant, Rugby
Britvic Soft Drinks has expanded its packaging operations at its Rugby facility by converting an old warehouse into a new bottling facility.	The warehouse prior to preparation and fit-out.	The expansion was undertaken because of an increase in demand for non-alcoholic soft drinks, especially in smaller containers.
The new line will allow Britvic to produce, fill and process an additional 36,000 bottles per hour.	Part of the formulating / mixing equipment.	Blowmax series III heater box.
Blowmax series III blowing wheel.	The new facility will mainly be used for Pepsi, Tango and Seven-Up brands in 0.5L bottles and for Tango in a new 0.25L bottle.	The new aseptic production line will end the need for preservatives in soft drinks as bottle sterilisation, product pasteurisation and filling are done in a sealed environment.
Robinsons Smooth Juice and Robinsons Fruit Shoot 100% juice were the first products off the new aseptic production line.

Coca Cola Canners,
The Wadeville Coca Cola Canners facility produces over 58 different SKUs.	There are seven canning lines at the Wadeville plant, producing over 200,000 cans per day.	The CimJet system can label pallets after the cases have collated to introduce barcode traceability.
The CimJet system includes a wide range of product-specific information when it creates a label. It also adds a product code and description, as well as a 36-character barcode.	The system fully integrates the pallet labelling and production line control systems.

Coopers Brewery Bottle Filling Line, Adelaide
Sections of the bottle filler are unpacked before being installed.	The bottle filler installed at Coopers has an easily accessible and hygienically designed stainless steel frame.	The bottle filler being installed at Coopers Brewery.

Cristalia Water,
Cristalia's revenue is up 400% since 1999.	A conveyor brings cases from the one-gallon production line to the infeed of the FKI Logistex GS140 palletiser.	A cushioned turning device rotates the cases to create the necessary pattern.
A pusher bar transfers the cases from the forming area to the apron.	Once each layer of the load is built on the apron, the carriage raises and the apron advances over top of the pallet, depositing the layer on the pallet or the partially built load.	The GS140 discharges completed pallets of Cristalia's one-gallon-jug cases.
The FKI Logistex GS140 entry-level palletiser has helped Cristalia reduce labour costs by 25%.

Diageo Bottling Plant Refurbishment, Leven, Fife, Scotland
The new tank farm will make a difference to the volumes handled at the Leven facility making the production process much easier and more efficient.	Spirits are delivered by tanker to Leven for blending and bottling.	Spirits are casked, matured and selected for blending prior to the bottling process.
Smirnoff is packaged at Leven in a variety of formats including miniature and as the ready-to-drink Smirnoff Ice.	Johnny Walker is one of the best selling brands of whisky for Diageo.

Drinkmore Water
The new bottling line will allow an increase in production.	The Drinkmore brand includes several labels.	Bob Perini started the company when he became disillusioned with the quality of the water where he lived.
The company's new delivery truck features a distinctive livery. Much of the company's business is from corporate clients.	The water produced at the plant goes through a multistage ultra-purifcation process designed by Bob Perini.

DuPont Liquid Packaging Systems Manufacturing Facility,
DuPont is consolidating its liquid packaging operation under one roof for increased efficiency, moving to an integrated facility in Wythenshawe, UK.	The new Wythenshawe facility is producing DuPont's innovative bag-in-box packaging solutions.	Bag-in-box technology offers a capacity ranging from 3l to 1,000l, and the dispensing systems are simple, flexible, hygienic and inexpensive.
Many bulk liquid producers now use DuPont's bag-in-box system since transport is a lot cheaper and the containers are easier to recycle.	The bladder bag part of the packaging can be made of a variety of different materials according to the application.

GlaxoSmithKline Bottling Line Upgrade, Coleford
GSK's Coleford site has recently undergone refurbishment and upgrades to improve production of its Ribena and Lucozade products.	One of the filling lines at the Coleford facility has had a new enclosed bottle-drying system installed.	The GSK Coleford facility produces over 1 million cases of bottled drinks per week.
The old air knives system at the GSK plant was deemed ineffective and therefore replaced by a new system from Air Control Industries.	Because it is enclosed, the JetPlate system reduces noise levels and helps contain any airborne moisture from the drying process.

Gostomel Glass Factory Expansion, Gostomel
Gostomel Glass Factory in the Ukraine.	Part of the feeder assembly for the furnace.	Upgrade of electrical systems at the plant to save energy.
Recycled glass being used by the plant to make new bottles.	A selection of beer bottles in amber and blue glass.	A ten-section / double gob IS 5 Emhart machine.
A selection of equipment being installed at the plant for the bottle production line.

Holsten-Brauerei PET
Holsten beer bottle made of PET.	The open mould carrier of the Contiform S24 stretch blow-moulding machine.	Krones AirCo air conveyor.
The bottles are then taken by air conveyors to the PET filler.	Krones Contiroll reel-fed labelling machine.	Kettner Robot 3A packing and palletising machine.

J García Carrión Packaging System
The new gabled top carton.	The Tetra A3/Flex machine produces the new carton.	The carton is suitable for milk and dairy products.
The new carton has proven popular in Spain increasing sales of Don Simón - Gran Selección premium orange juice.	In 2006 over 130 billion individual Tetra Pak packages were produced by food processing companies.

James Boag & Son Brewery Expansion,
James Boag & Son of, the fourth largest brewer in Australia, completed in November 2004 an extensive upgrade of the bottling and packaging processes at its Launceston brewery.	The brewery has installed an SMI WP-800 case packing machine.	The plant now has a machine capable of filling 800 375ml bottles per minute, double the previous bottling capacity.

Kowloon Dairy FFS Machine for Mini Coffee
Kowloon Dairy, China, invested in Benco Pack's 'aseptic' Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) machine in April 2005 for the production of mini-portions of coffee creamers.	Kowloon Dairy produces a wide range of dairy products and has a great deal of experience with packaging UHT.

Krasnodar Glass Bottling Plant, Krasnodar
The new Krasnodar plant will produce bottles with glass from two furnaces, with a production capacity of 280,000t a year.	The sparkling wine industry in the Volga region needs a large supply of bottles, which the Krasnodar plant hopes to produce.	High-quality sand is one of the materials required for the production of glass bottles.
The SiseCam Group plant at Krasnodar will also produce bottles for the mineral water market.	Suppliers will have to be sourced in the region of South Russia for the high quality of raw materials required for glass production at the Krasnodar plant.

Kwik Trip Carbonated Beverage Line
The 700 series capper from Fogg	The Fogg filler installed at the plant	Part of the capping system
Kwikade will be produced in a number of flavours and the range is being increased all the time according to customer demand	One of the popular flavours for Kwikade is grape

Magners Irish Cider Bottling Line,
Paul O'Sullivan, Magners' quality assurance manager, showing a newly bottled Magners Pint.	The Clonmel facility.	Bottles must be dry for labelling to be accurate and also to avoid problems with the foil overwrap.
The filling line and the dryer.

Nemiroff Vodka Distillery Expansion, Nemirov
In April 2004 Nemiroff, one of the leading producers of vodka in the Ukraine, opened a new distillery in the town of Nemirov.	The new facility fills bottles ranging in size from miniatures to 750ml.	A selection of Nemiroff vodkas.
Nemiroff's product range includes its popular premium vodka brands (the best selling brand is Nemiroff black), a number of flavoured vodkas and a variety of alcopops.	Top Spy (6% by volume) is available in orange, lemon, peach and grape flavours and Jolly Spy (7% by volume) in gin tonic, whisky cola, light blue rum, tequila cactus and red brandy flavours.

New Belgium Brewing Bottling and Packaging Facility
The brewery produces its beer using traditional equipment and processes. The New Belgium brewery has had double-digit growth every year since its inception in 1991. Currently, it is the third largest craft-brewer in the United States.	The New Belgium Brewing Bottling and Packaging Facility is a new facility built with strong environmental convictions. The city of Fort Collins integrated design assistance programme provided financial incentive to build the new packaging facility in an energy-efficient manner.	One of the Belgian-style dark beers produced (1554). New Belgium produces five other all year-round beers; Fat Tire Amber Ale, Sunshine Wheat, Blue Paddle Pilsner, 1554 Black Ale, Abbey and Trippel as well as seasonal beers.
The New Belgium bottling facility incorporates many green building and energy conservation measures. Skylights, solar tubes and windows are the primary light source for daytime illumination thus saving on electricity costs.	A plan of the new New Belgium Brewing $26m bottling and packaging facility.	The hard standing around the New Belgium Brewing facility is constructed from a porous concrete (allowing water drainage), landscaping uses xeriscape principles, and site lighting eliminates lighting pollution at night, which can disturb the natural rhythms of birds, animals and flora.

O-I Bottling Facility, Windsor, CO
Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser bottle, which will be produced at the new site.	Glass blowing facility manufacturing bottles.	Owens-Illinois bottle identification marks: (1) Plant of manufacture; (2) Owens-Illinois mark; (3) Year of manufacture.
The location of the O-I bottling plant in the US.	The O-I bottling facility being constructed in May 2005.

Quinn Glass Bottle Production Facility, Elton,
Quinn Glass has constructed a production and distribution facility at Ince in North West England. The site provides a comprehensive glass packaging, filling and distribution service for the drinks industry.	The new plant is one of only a handful worldwide where bottles can be manufactured and filled on a single site.	The new plant features one of the largest automated warehouses in Europe, capable of handling 282,000 pallets of filled and unfilled glass containers.

Refresco Aseptic Filling Line for Steel Cans,
Refresco Holding's new aseptic filling line for steel cans is used to contract package noncarbonated heat sensitive products in newly designed steel containers, extend the shelf life of selected vitamin enriched drinks, yoghurt and health drinks, including dairy / soya products, to over 12 months.	The beverage can is the only container that is absolutely light-proof and oxygen-tight.	Can integrity being tested.
The canning line itself is capable of running at speeds of 600 cans per minute.	The aseptic filled steel can for 'Modifast' for which Ball Packaging Europe won a major design award in 2001.	An example of two Campina products which were packaged in the pilot scheme.

Spumador Aseptic Bottling Line, Sant'andrea Bagni,
Diagram of the Spumador aseptic filling line.	A selection of the bottles produced showing different shapes and sizes.	Air conveyors on the line moving filled PET bottles to the shrink wrapping process.
The palletising process.	Part of the Simonazzi Aseptica R rotary filler.	Bottling Minute Maid orange juice for the Coca-Cola Company.

Stone Hill Winery Bottling Line,
The new high-speed Stone Hill bottling line required an investment of $1m.	Case packing at Stone hill winery.	Capped bottles at Stone Hill winery.
Bottles are moved using starwheels and screws.	The Stone Hill rinser and filler are state-of-the-art.

Tropicana Europe
The capping equipment for the new bottle-filling line was supplied and installed by Arol Spa.	The caps unscrambler hopper at the Tropicana Europe fruit juice packaging plant.	The packaging line at the plant fills the bottles aseptically.
The new packaging line is to pack a range of Tropicana branded fruit juice drinks in 250ml and 330ml bottles.	The aseptic system consists of a flexible, colourless PVC 'tunnel', which separates the filling machine environment from the outside	The sterilisation process for the caps and bottles uses a liquid spray of oxonia.
A computer rendering of Tropicana's new asceptic bottle-filling plant at Zeebrugge, Belgium.	The Tropicana bottle-filling plant under construction.	The production hall of the Zeebrugge bottle-filling plant under construction.

Twinings Tea
Overwrap is central to the protection of tea prior to its use by the consumer because it seals in freshness.	Most of the tea packaged is now in teabags.	Twinings is one of the UK’s oldest brands.
The company has produced a new range of speciality teas for the UK market.

Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods Production Line for Bottling
Part of the aseptic filling line showing the inspection area with microbiological barrier control.	SIPA SFR rotary perform blow moulding equipment.	Aseptic filling line OP CC UNIBLOC HA (high acid).
PET performs used for the various bottle formats.	PET bottle forms that may be adopted by Wimm-Bill-Dann for their J-7 brand product range.	Robot palletising system for stacking a storing the products.
Sterilisation and rinsing system for the bottles after moulding.

Wolf Blass Winery Packaging Facility, Barossa
Poker 2Z 24/30 capsulers are suitable for still wines and can dispense and close capsules at speeds of 30,000 bottles per hour.	The Rekord 20000/16 wire hooder is a multihead, rotary wirehooder with a capacity of 4,000 to 25,000 bottles per hour.	The Zenith Z 2/32 OTTICO sparkling wine capper is composed of a single dispensing unit and rotary turrets for capsule orienting, pleating and smoothing.

Yuengling Brewery, Pennsylvania
Yuengling produces over 1.7 million barrels of beer per year.	The Pottsville brewery dates back to 1829, the oldest in the US.	The old case packing method used a drop system.

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