PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2012

BOTTLING / FILLING 25 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 11/12 The newest development to come out of the plant, the CellaNova brand, is also only sold in PET bottles. The beverage contains minerals, amino acids, polyphenols, cranberry and pomegranate juice, and also extract of edelweiss, among other ingredi- ents and is designed to enhance the mental and physical wellbeing of the consumer. CellaNova was launched to market in Switzerland in 2010 and, despite its relatively high price (approx. CHF2.5 or €2.00 for 0.5l), it sold 150,000 0.5l PET bot- tles in its first year. This figure doubled in 2011. Schmidlin expects a further boost in sales for 2012. Incidentally, the bottling plant has its own edelweiss farm especially planted for the CellaNova brand so that it has direct access to the edelweiss extract needed for the bever- age. “We’ve trodden the right path with our near-water bever- ages and CellaNova”, Schmid- lin pronounces. “Of our total soft drinks sales, the share of our ‘young’ soft drinks is now already 30%. And this is on the up.” In-house production of PET bottles In the past Mineralquelle Bad Knutwil had ordered PETbottles. This meant high outgoings for transportation and that large areas had to be reserved for storage of the PET bottles. What’s more, as the assortment of PET bottles was ordered based on experience, sudden changes in consumer demand or additional orders sometimes led to shortfalls in the number of PET bottles on site. The machine ordered by Bad Knutwil to produce the bottles in-house was an InnoPET Blomax Series IV from KHS Corpoplast. It has been equipped with eight blow stations for the mineral water bottling plant, each of which can output up to 2,200bph. An hourly total capacity of up to 17,600 PET bottles is possible. If Bad Knutwil needs to switch the size of bottle from Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L O W M O U L D S . ! " - - '%$ ( - - - - %(# - !(( ! % Röders GmbH / Scheibenstr. 6 / 29614 Soltau / Germany / www.roeders.de Telephone +49 5191-603-53 / Fax +49 5191-603-36 / E-Mail [email protected] For our subsidiaries in China, USA and Latin America please check our website. PET STRETCH BLOW MOULDS $ ! ) % '( % ,& ' ! $ !$ "%+ %*" $* )*' !$ VISIT US Hall 5 Booth 419 Nov. 13 - 15, 2012 0.5l to 1.5l, the stretching motion can still be carried out at the same rate as at a higher machine velocity despite the slower machine rotation speed. This ensures maximum process stabil- ity. As a consequence, preforms can be optimised down to the last tenth of a gram of PET material. Particularly where changeovers to new bottle formats are concerned, the InnoPET Blomax again profits from the use of servo technology. There is no need to change or mechani- Robert Schmidlin, managing director of Mineralquelle Bad Knutwil