PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2017

PACKAGING / PALLETISING PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 04/17 www.petpla.net 38 The legacy of innkeeper Josef Mohr The origins of the Mohren Brewery lie in the Vorarlberg region in 1784: in that year a certain Josef Mohr opened a brewery restaurant in the Austrian town of Dornbirn. 50 years later, Franz-Anton Huber bought the business, including its hop garden. The water for brewing came from the hills around Ebnit, the mountainous area of Dornbirn, which bordered a protected nature area. Twelve types of beer are brewed in accordance with the German Purity Law – in addition to the fashionable “Pfiff” there were also natural types like unfiltered cellar beer, bock beer and Munich-type beer but also trendy beer mix drinks (also available in the unbreakable PET bottle) and a particular speciality, the fruity “Pale Ale“. In addition, the business offers numerous refreshing drinks as well as wine and vari- ous international beers. The business employs about 120 staff today and over a year produces more than 220,000 hectolitres of drinks. By comparison, in the foundation year under the leadership of Josef Mohr, the modest quantity of “300 pails” was supplied. Compact mechatronic Movigear units move the massive modular belts both in and out. (Photo: SEW-Eurodrive) nik. In total, the Vorarlberg drinks producer has been in the forefront of computer-controlled processes in many areas of production. This delight in innovation has almost become a tradition in this family business: as early as the mid- 1980s the brewery developed and patented its own automated beer cask change-over machine for the dispensers in restaurants. www.sew-eurodrive.de A bevel-wheel geared motor with inte- grated encoder moves the centring frame, which fixes the drinks crates during filling and centres the bottles on the box compartments. Head brewer Ralf Freitag (photo: SEW-Eurodrive)