PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2018

BOTTLING / FILLING PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 11/18 www.petpla.net 22 BOTTLING / FILLING 22 Niagara Bottling LLC invests in line efficiency 2 million cases of extra productivity The private label bottled water supplier, Niagara Bottling LLC, with its many plants throughout the US and Mexico, has recently upgraded its Salt Lake City facility with a Sidel complete PET line. The line features two Super Combis, equipped with the compact ground-level preform feeder, EasyFeed, along with Gebo Cermex conveying and end-of-line equipment. This investment has enabled the bottler to increase its productivity to +2million cases per year. Niagara Bottling LLC has more than 50 years of business experience in the water market, offer- ing its customers products of more than 40 dif- ferent brands. Grounded on the fact that the PET bottled water market in the US is expected to grow by acompound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3% year on year between 2016 and 2020 (according to Euromonitor data), the company decided to rely on its long-standing business relationship with Sidel and install a new complete PET line to enlarge its production capacity to answer consumers’ demand. Starting point of the new complete line at Nia- gara’s plant is Sidel’s EasyFeed, a compact and safe ground-level preform feeder for PET lines. From the hopper, the preforms are lifted by an elevator column to only 2,5m. They are then sorted mmm$he[Z[hi$Z[ Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L OW MO U L D S . STEPS TO THE PERFECT BOTTLE. >YZV 9Zh^\c IZX]cdad\n BVcj[VXijg^c\ 8bem CekbZ &%% HZgk^XZ Meet us at Brau Beviale in Nuremberg - Hall 7A / 7A - 301