PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2016

BOTTLING / FILLING 12 PET planet insider Vol. 17 No. 07+08/16 www.petpla.net Hygienic bottling thanks to hotfill technology Around the globe consumers are finding that juices and sports drinks are a healthy alternative to what are often rather sugary soft drinks. Bottlers who want to muscle in on this growth market have to satisfy the special technical demands made of the process and filling technology for such products. For its juice and sports beverages Coca-Cola Canners in South Africa has now opted for a high-performance hot filling line from KHS. “The entire fruit juice and sports drinks segment is growing all over the world as health awareness increases among many consum- ers,” states Steve Nagiah, plant manager at Coca-Cola Canners. It was decided to extend the company portfolio in the long term in order to develop this growth area. With its four canning and two PET lines the production site in Wadeville just outside Johannesburg is one of the largest of its kind in the world. 320 employees working round the clock make sure that around 350 million litres of near-water beverage Glacéau, sports beverage Powerade and the Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta brands leave the factory every year. Coca-Cola now bottles iced tea, sports drinks and juices with and without fruit chunks on the new line. The new pulpy beverages could not be bottled on the two existing lines Coca-Cola Canners in South Africa bottles a range of soft drinks in PET. KHS has developed and installed a complete new line for the site in Johannesburg. Total flexibility: Coca-Cola Canners fills up to twenty different beverages into eight different bottle formats on the KHS line. FILLING SPECIAL