PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2014

BOTTLING / FILLING 29 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 10/14 www.petpla.net BOTTLING / FILLING 29 With Sacmi, the beverage specialists are always at your side. With our unbeatable technological know-how and continuous re- search we are creating new containers and closures designed to ensure outstanding performance. The new IPS injection system for preforms and the CCM compression press for caps, fully de- signed and built by Sacmi, allows for large-scale production with considerable advantages in terms of efficiency and flexibility. The outcome? Reduced plastic volumes, less energy consum- ption and lower running costs. All in a bottle: the one you’ll soon be making. Preform & Closure technologically together Save RAW MATERIALS reduced plastic volumes Save ENERGY less energy consumption Save TROUBLE more quality and higher performance, guaranteed by a sole supplier Full INSPECTED online quality control / stand alone Since the end of 2013, the line has also been filling milk-based mixed drinks in 250mm. The trend – in Mongolia as elsewhere – is towards narrower necks and lightweighting. The Krones line is already using 23.5 to 25g bottles, which are lighter than Vitafit’s competition. The line went operational, on time, in July 2013. Cool running Vitafit undertakes its own distribu- tion. Its fleet of around 50 trucks cover the whole country, delivering even in the depths of minus 40°C winter. Over the longer journeys, the beverages arrive frozen but this has been taken into account; they thaw out without any loss of quality. The new Krones line is now oper- ating in three shifts. Its peak demand season is the four-month summer, when the company sells between 50 and 60% of its annual output. Vitafit currently employs around 700 people and is intending to increase its annual sales with the introduc- tion of new niche-oriented products, such as strawberry-flavoured milk- based drink, which will be bottled on the Krones line; a near-water bever- age called “Vitaplus” in lime, apple and pomegranate flavours; plus a vitamin-enriched water. It intends to launch smoothies onto the market towards the end of 2014. The Mon- golian fondness for black tea and Georgian green tea is something else that Vitafit intends to translate into a technically viable product. The capac- ity of the new Krones hotfill line will be exploited with the launch of to or three new products each year. www.krones.com End-of-the-line packaging by a Krones Variopac Pro FS non-returnables packer.