PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2018

73 ON SITE PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 04/18 www.petpla.net Nanjing Ziquan installs second Sidel complete hot fill line Nanjing Ziquan, one of China’s leading co-packers, has turned to Sidel to increase its hot fill production capac- ity of Mizone, a functional drink brand popular in China and packaged in PET, for which consumption is growing. The new line - running at a speed of 36,000bph - follows positive feedback on a similar complete hot fill PET line installed by Sidel in 2013. Nanjing Ziquan is a member of The Shanghai Ziquan Beverage Company Limited, one of the country’s leading OEM companies. Established in April 2004 and located in the Nanjing Hi-tech Industrial Development Park, the com- pany bottles products in PET on behalf of leading brands such as Danone, Coca-Cola and others for distribution in Greater China. With a production capacity of 490 million standard bottles (500ml or 600ml) per year, Nanjing Ziquan is a key OEM company in the region. “The earlier Sidel line had been maintaining an operating efficiency of 95%+ and has even been upgraded recently, so that its output speeds for the 600ml bottle format increased from 30,000bph to 34,500bph,” comments the management team of Nanjing Ziquan. “As a result of the excellent and reliable performance of this first complete hotfill line, we were happy to award the project for a similar solution once again to Sidel.” Both Sidel lines comprise a Sidel SBO Heat Resistant blower with 20 blowing stations, Sidel Matrix SF700 hot filler, conveyors, labeller and packer. In 2013, when Nanjing Ziquan installed the first Sidel complete hot fill PET line - which featured the very first Sidel Matrix hot filler ever in Greater China - the functional drinks market was increasing. The first line was installed to increase production capacity for the co-packer, and the most recent line was intended to meet the continuing market growth in Greater China for functional drinks, forecast at a CAGR of 15% from 2016-2020 (Euromonitor). This second line, used exclusively to bottle the Mizone functional drink, was installed in anticipation of substantial market growth for the product. The Sidel Matrix hotfiller, the SF700, fea- tured by the second line, meets the production demands of a variety of beverages, such as teas, isotonics and juices, with or without pulps or particles - in formats to match pro- duction needs. www.sidel.com ON site stf·sorting line stf·washing line professional plastic recycling solutions – made in germany The stf· group is the leading manufacturer of plastic sorting and washing machinery, especially for PET post-consumer bottles, with more than 60 turn-key plants and several single machines delivered worldwide. stf·group Industriestr. 1-3 94529 Aicha v. Wald – Germany fon +49 8544 960-110 mail [email protected] web www.stf-group.de scan for vCard stf ·group