PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2018

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 11/18 www.petpla.net 51 TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 51 Gea Hall 7 booth 602 Flexible rinsing, filling, seaming and capping with one filler Filling matters Gea’s focus at this year’s trade fair is their newly acquired subsidiary, Gea Vipoll from Slovenia, which develops and produces filling technologies for hot and cold fill drinks. Together, Gea and Gea Vipoll will present their highly flexible, multifunctional beverage lines which provide added value to their 360° approach for the brewing industry. Filling experts will be on-site to demonstrate Gea’s All In One monoblock filler, which can switch between bottle, cans and PET fill- ing. The system can handle a wide variety of forms and can accommo- date various lid shapes for non-car- bonated and carbonated beverages with hot and cold filling techniques. After the trade fair, the exhibit will be sent to Norway: the client is the traditional brewery Mack, which will be filling their products such as beer, cider, carbonated soft drinks on the 8,000 bph line. Joint network Since the acquisition, the company has recorded numerous project successes: during 2018, it supplied customers in Croatia and Sweden with its All In One rinser /filler / capper block. It is cur- rently building an All In One filler for beer, soft drinks and water for craft brewer East Coast Brewing from South Africa, which placed a follow-up order after the installation of a Gea Craftstar brew house. In October 2018, Gea Vipoll will also deliver the first multifunctional filler to partner Foodmach in Australia. In the coming months, the plant will be commissioned at the site of Lion, one of the largest food and beverage producers on the Austral- ian continent. Via the acquisition of the Slo- venian mechanical engineering company Vipoll d.o.o. in January 2018, Gea has strengthened its market position as a full-range sup- plier to the beverage industry. Gea can now also fill beverages in glass and PET bottles as well as cans that do not require sterile process- ing. This segment now comple- ments aseptic filling, in which the company already claims to be a leader for blow moulding and filling processes, especially for PET and HDPE bottles. “Last year at drinktec, we pre- sented the ‘Brewery 4.0’ concept. This includes continuous produc- tion and the late-differentiation approach. Our technologies are now being enhanced by highly flex- ible, multifunctional filling lines from Gea Vipoll, which meet the demand for complete solutions,” says Paddy Kenna, Head of Application Centre Beverage at Gea. www.gea.com www.bericap.com Unique range of light weight screw and sports closures for light weight PET neck standards for water • Closures for all common neck sizes 26/22, 28mm (PCO 1810, PCO 1881), 29/25, 30/25 • Light weight Hexalite range allowing light weight neck • Still water closures suitable for N 2 dosing • Sports closures fulfill BSDA requirements • Boreseal systems for excellent tightness • Consumer friendly opening forces BERI CAP Technology for still water