New water bottles for URC Philippines
Universal Robina Corporation (URC) is a Philippine multinational with an established market especially in South East Asia in the Food & Beverage industry. URC Philippines requested a solution to produce new water bottles for mass consumption, having specific needs. The line speed should have a capacity of 50,000bph with a labelling machine speed of 55,000bph. The bottle shapes of 350ml and 500ml should be processed in ExtraLight on a blow moulding machine.
The solution that P.E. Labellers proposed and installed is a Rollmatic with brushless motorised plate belt, reel-holders; servo-driven, dedicated brushless HS glue roller and automatic joiner.
In addition, a special in feed solution with drive-break curve, long feed-screw and additional starwheel has been designed and implemented for the correct infeed of soft bottles into the machine.
The low consistency of the bottles was a great preoccupation for the success of the project. However, with the right solutions described above, corrected and adapted during the FAT and the machine has been operating for over a year in three shifts with great customer satisfaction.
