PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2013

BOTTLE MAKING 41 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 09/13 www.petpla.net areas. We saw a variety of machines on the shop floor, such as  Aseptic filler for UHT milk in HDPE bottles  Dairy filler connected to Urola blower for pasteurised milk, juice and yoghurt in PET bottles  Dairy filler with a PAA (platic acid for flavoured milk in PS bottles  Aseptic filler for whipped cream in metal aerosol  Corrosive products filler (where plastic, hastelloy and titanium materials are used instead of stain- less steel as they do not corrode) for toilet cleaner in HDPE bottles  Combox H2F integrated blowing/ filling/capping for chilled drinks in PET bottles Combox H2F The Combox H2F, the latest member of Serac’s product portfo- lio for packaging in PET bottles is the ultra clean blow moulding-filling- capping line for dairy PET bottle production at up to 12,000bph. The integrated line solution consists of the SBL blower (Serac Blow Linear) linked to the H2F rotary filler (Highly Hygienic Filler). The blower and the filler are new developments for Serac. In fact the design and manufacture of the machine, as well as its competi- tive positioning of Combox H2F was a joint effort by all departments within the company. Jean-Paul Tilloy in front of the filler section Fabienne Chériaux, Marketing Manager (left) and Aymeric Vague, Product Marketing Manager Marc Binet, Managing Director, Serac, France (r.) and Wolfgang von Schroeter Serac’s marketing team – namely Aymeric Vague and Fabienne Che- riaux from Serac Shared Services – presented the company’s strategy behind the new development. Sylvain Auvray demonstrated the SBL blower in the test area, Jean-Paul Tilloy explained the innovations of the H2F rotary filler: the blower comes from Malaysia, the filler from La Ferté. The factory here integrates the two machines mechanically and electroni- cally. Strategic considerations For 40 years, Serac’s focus has been and remains to this day their