PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2018

BOTTLING / FILLING PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 05/18 www.petpla.net 38 Peruvian beverage producer achieves energy savings Heavenly growth Peruvian company Industrias San Miguel (ISM) currently has seven lines producing PET bottles, ve of which are equipped with blow moulding machines supplied by Sidel. The most recent ISM installation is a Sidel Matrix Combi, bottling still water and avoured water at a rate of 36,000bph in the company’s Dominican factory. Energy savings of around 8%, compared to the previous ones, could be achieved at the new line. Industrias San Miguel pro- duces soft drinks, fruit nectars and still water, all to the international standards ISO 9001, ISO 4001 and OHSAS 18001. Founded in 1988, when ISM’s original product, Kola Real, took the country by storm, the company strengthened its operations in January 2000, opening another soft drink manufacturing plant in Arequipa, Peru’s second biggest city. International expansion began with the appointment of two distributors in Chile in 2002 and took off three years later with the opening of two manu- facturing plants overseas: one in the Dominican Republic in 2005 and the second in Brazil in 2012. A growing market In the Dominican Republic, in 2016, off-trade sales for bottled water rose by 2% in volume in that year, while sales gures rose by 5% in value - to reach 1.3 billion litres and DOP (Dominican Peso) 12.4 billion, respectively. Demand for bottled water in the region is expected to remain steady in the coming years, according to estimates by Euromonitor. Although the majority of still bot- tled water is typically sold in bulk, in large ve-gallon containers, and often delivered to apartments and resi- dences of the Dominican consumers by their nearby independent grocery retailer, growth in the market was particularly fuelled by single-serve products launched that year. Higher than normal temperatures also played their part, causing an increased need for water consumption among the Dominican end users. In line with rising health awareness globally, con- sumers in the Republic are also shift- ing towards healthier options, includ- ing bottled water. Experiencing the biggest gain in market share in 2016, Industrias San Miguel continued to expand within the domestic bottled water market pri- marily under its Cool Heaven brand, increasing its sales in value by 17%. The organisation also continued to further consolidate its position within soft drinks. Following the sustained growth of its Kola Real brand, its Frutop brand - a refreshing drink with the combination of natural fruit avours enriched with vitamins A and C - its 360 energy drink and the intro- duction of a new passion fruit avour during the year, ISM intends to posi- tion itself as the leader within non-cola carbonated drinks. Savings in energy and bottle weight In 2005, ISM installed the rst Sidel blower. Angel Idone, Innovation and Engineering Specialist at ISM, particularly appreciates the Sidel solu- tions to be automated, efcient, fast and providing energy savings through- out the entire production process. He continues: “Since 2005, we have been acquiring Sidel blow moulding equipment. With the blow moulding of PET bottles being the most energy- intensive process within the whole production line, they have helped us generate considerable savings over the years. The high uptime of Sidel equipment also enables us to achieve greater efciency from the production lines in which it is installed. Moreo- ver, Sidel has helped us reduce our bottles’ weight, that’s why we have further minimised our TCO, which is key for our results.”