PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2011

BOTTLING / FILLING 30 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 05/11 www.petpla.net A visit at PJSC „Erlan“ Biola Always at the top In our last issue we reported on the preform and caps manu- facturer Retal Dnipro, Ukraine, and mentioned their coopera- tion with the bottler Biola at the same location. In part 2 of the Ukraine Story we take the opportunity of paying a visit to the highly innovative PJSC “Erlan” Biola. It was one of the first in Europe to bottle cold aseptic beverages in PET on a grand scale and they continue to be in the vanguard of technology. Now, following the introduction of lightweight bottle caps, the company has emerged as one of the first to manufacture light- weight shrink films. As a major national supplier of juices and CSD drinks in the Ukraine, PJSC “Erlan” Biola set its sights at an early stage on the aseptic bottling of fruit juices. On our last visit in 2005 there were already two aseptic lines of KHS in-situ, which together pro- duced up to 48,000bph. Since then, a third high performance system – likewise from KHS – has been added. Since 2009, the plant has featured up to 44,000 bottling operations per hour. The bottling operation is fed by a Corpoplast Blomax 24. This plant is equipped with typical asep- tic features such as ionised air for cleaning the preform and sterile air for blow moulding. Between stretch The bottling systems once more running at full capacity. This shows the aseptic plant with 0.5l bottling operations.