PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2011

BOTTLING / FILLING 43 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 09/11 www.petpla.net EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. A-4052 Ansfelden . Austria . erema@erema.at . www.erema.at We know how. PET Extrusion System VACUREMA ® Prime to produce food contact approved BTB pellets Input: Washed PET flakes Output: rPET pellets Batch process i guarantees defined decontamination time for each PET flake • FDA and brand owner approved • Efsa approval requested via customers CIC compact inline crystallisation i • lower AA ( < 1 ppm possible) • higher crystallinity • space-saving equipment Permanent monitoring for direct food contact and IV i Very low energy consumption, 0.30 to 0.34 kWh/kg i The Innopal PBL operates with a combined layer/row pusher. The concept includes an integrated handling robot which uses suction elements to pick up pallet liners from a designated magazine and place each one in its specified position. At the Bad Liebenwerda mineral water bottling plant the individual layers can be palletised on half pallets or Euro pallets as required. Among other things, a fully automated system requires an articulated robot that can be instructed to steer towards up to four different pallet positions, grasp all four sides of the individual layer formations, lift them, and finally set them down on a table. From here the formations are removed row by row and the shrink packs transferred to the single-lane pack conveyors. Controlled by a support plate distributor, the shrink packs reach the conveyor belts designed to take them. Finally, the shrink packs are fed into the palletiser as described. A ReDiS (Remote Diagnostic Service) is also integrated into the line. Should problems arise within the line, a direct connection to the KHS ReDiS service centre can be made and an extensive remote analysis carried out. In the best- case scenario, a machine problem can be solved by access- ing the electronic system components online. If the problem involves mechanical components, the technicians are notified as to what action to take. Reprogramming or transferring pos- sible updates via ReDiS is also conceivable. Perspectives on growth At present the company site measures 110,000m 2 and can accommodate no further development. However, this is not necessarily a reason to rule out an increase in produc- tion at Bad Liebenwerda. As a precaution the company has already invested in land opposite, in a site on which its exist- ing production, storage, and administration buildings could easily be duplicated. www.khs.com Horst Kuhl, Managing Director of Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda