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BOTTLING / FILLING PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 12/18 www.petpla.net 26 will make a significant contribution towards growing exports, and towards exerting a beneficial influence on our country’s economic development as well,” is Irina Gaprindashvili’s firm conviction. “Our aim is to supply these products, and our own, to the entire region comprising our neighbour- ing countries, and to the Near East.” This makes the new plant a strategic location as a regional producer for Rauch’s beverage portfolio and for the Nabeghlavi articles. The second important aspect for Healthy Water was to be also able to fill dealer’s brands in the future. “Producing private labels in cans is a particularly attractive option. Some inquiries in this regard have already reached us from neighbouring coun- tries,” explains Irina Gaprindashvili. The multiple options for filling available at Healthy Water and its closeness to the port can be expected to translate this concept into market- ing reality quite soon. “The medium- term goal is to increase the number of fills from its present 76 million to 200 million by 2023,” she says. “And even that would not be the end of the story for us. We could erect the warehouse a bit further upstream, at the place where the old factory used to be, and accommodate further filling lines on the ground floor of the new plant.” These plans augur extremely well for a highly promising future at Healthy Water. www.krones.com The plant has been generously dimensioned for an annual capacity of up to 300 million fills. For this, Krones prepared the layout for and installed the following process-engineering kit:  A complete syrup kitchen with sugar preparation and CIP system;  Two Hydronomic water treatment systems: one Hydronomic MF (micro filtration) (installed since 2010 in the old facility) for mineral water, and a new Hydronomic UF (ultra filtration) for spring water. Six lines are available for filling; amongst them, two PET lines with out- puts of 8,000 bph and 14,000 bph. The Krones PET line from 2007, likewise originally installed in the old plant, was equipped with new machines as from the labeller. A new PET line for soft drinks is composed of machines from Kosme (SynchroBloc comprising a KSB 6R blow-moulder and a Barifill filler) and Krones (Contiroll wrap-around labeller interlinked with a Sleeve- matic labeller; Pressant Universal 1N palletiser; Contiflow mixer). In the soft-drink PET line, the Contiroll wrap-around labeller is interlinked with a Sleevematic labeller. It is not least production under license of fruit drinks from the Austrian Rauch company that constitutes a guarantor of Healthy Water’s future-viability. Healthy Water today produces more than 40 different beverages of various brands, primarily mineral and spring water as before. May 21-24, 2019, Guangzhou German Technology