PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2016

PACKAGING 33 PET planet Insider Vol. 17 No. 11/16 www.petpla.net measuring 3,500m 2 , had actually been planned for the smaller line ratings originally ordered, and secondly both lines were to be installed within a timeframe of only about four months. Dirk Schneider remembers: “Over a period of eight months before instal- lation began, we had an intensive planning phase with Krones. Since the ready-to-drink teas Leão Fuze and Matte Leão exhibit an entirely different formulation to Powerade, the project also demanded a rethink.” In order nevertheless to accommodate twice the output on the same area, the two lines U and V were put together like a kit in an exceptionally compact layout. On two decks Both lines hot-fill the products at 85°C. After that, a Checkmat FM-G inspects the containers for proper fill level and closures. Directly down- stream, there is in each line a heat- holding section on which the filled containers are transported lying on their sides, so as to also enable their necks and closures to be thermally decontaminated with the requisite dependability. Now comes the first interface between the two lines: both of them utilise a double-deck cooling unit, which reduces the bottles’ tem- perature from filling to room tempera- ture. Here, the bottles from the one line are passed through the bottom deck while those from the second line travel along the top deck. The cooling water, which is being warmed up in the process, is used as warm water for flash pasteurisation in the two VarioFlash H shell-and-tube heat exchangers, which are located in the separate syrup kitchen. One Accut- able buffer table has been integrated for each line, with the two of them space-savingly installed one above the other. Each provides sufficient buffering and accumulation space between the blow-moulder/filler block and the labeller. PROCESS PILOT ® makes producing a better PET bottle as easy as 2 3 1 MEASURE CONTROL OPTIMIZE every bottle for changes in material distribution process variation, inside the blowmolder material utilization and orientation to achieve maximum bottle performance CONTACT US TODAY TO LEARN MORE! AGRINTL.COM | +1.724.482.2163 | [email protected] VISIT US IN HALL 4A BOOTH 233 Retrofit option for the FlexiFruit process The two lines are, with the exception of the fillers, almost identical. They each begin with a Contiform Bloc. The heatset Contiform H blow-moulder is supplied with preforms from a preform feeder, which first of all are passed through a linear preform rinser. An inspector checks the preforms in the feeder for any damage. The downstream filler is directly block-synchronised, and accommodated in a cleanroom with HEPA filters and overpressure air control. In what is called Line U, the filler provided is a volumetric Modul- fill VFS with flow metering. For Line V, Leão has kept an option open for retrofitting the filler at a later date with the Krones FlexiFruit process. This enables the client to ensure product-friendly predosing of fruit chunks into the containers. Line U was originally designed to handle six different container shapes and sizes. At present, it is being used almost solely for filling the 300ml bottle with Leão Fuze and Matte Leão. Line V with the FlexiFruit option has been initially equipped with five different moulds for 300ml, 500ml and 1.5l containers. This line, too, is currently specialising in a single product – it is filling the two ready-to-drink teas in the 1.5l bottle. Put together from Coca-Cola Brasil and its regional producers, Leão Alimentos e Bebidas is responsible for administer- ing the entire production chain of the national line with still, teas and energy drinks from the domestic Coca-Cola portfolio.