PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2020

BOTTLING / FILLING PET planet Insider Vol. 21 No. 03/20 www.petpla.net 27 based products and willing to launch the new 2 litre bottle format, Yotvata decided to purchase a second aseptic complete PET line from Sidel. Sidel’s technology matches their needs and allows producing UHT and Extended Shelf Life (ESL) milk in PET bottles. “We already had a very positive experi- ence with the Sidel Aseptic Combi Predis technology for PET production on the first line we purchased from them in 2014. This new packaging line will allow us to increase the produc- tion capacity on existing products while reducing our environmental footprint, mainly due to the switch from HDPE to PET and the bottle lightweighting poten- tial offered by Sidel’s integrated dry pre- form decontamination system,” explains Achiraz Horesh, COO at Yotvata. Currently, the new flexible line is producing 1 l bottles and the newly designed two litre bottle for milk in PET, meeting the needs around flavoured, ESL and UHT milk. The recently installed aseptic PET complete line features Sidel’s Asep- tic Combi Predis, complemented by Capdis, combining preform and cap sterilisation, blowing and sealing func- tions in a single enclosure for a 100% sterile filled and capped PET bottle. The Sidel Aseptic Combi Predis offers environmental footprint as it does not consume any water and very few chemicals. It allows unlimited bottle lightweighting. This solution has already been contributed to save seven billion litres of water and 57,000 tons of PET, while producing 46 billion bottles. In this technology, the blower oven activates the sterilising effect of the hydrogen peroxide vapour without the need for additional heating of the preforms. The same technology is used for the cap sterilisation, ensuring a 100% dry asep- tic PET packaging solution. PET line from one single partner The line includes Sidel’s RollQuat- tro, a versatile high-speed roll-fed label- ler, able to handle lightweight contain- ers with thin labels, plus conveying and end-of-line equipment. To make its aseptic PET complete line, able to run at 13,500 bph, Yotvata relied on Sidel expertise in conveying, packing and palletising. The new installation at the Israeli site includes EvoFilm, a shrink-wrapping system able to deliver best quality/price/performance ratio. In addition, the dairy producer selected a PalKombi, an automatic palletiser suita- ble for crates, cartons, trays and shrink- wrapped packs, designed for medium to high speed lines that allows for easy control and access. Andrea Tondelli, Sales Manager Southern Europe, Sidel, summarises how Sidel supported the dairy producer, “Yotvata leveraged the entire set of our competences, from packaging design and industrialisation through leadership in aseptic technolo- gies up to our longstanding expertise in complete lines. The Sidel Aseptic Combi Predis delivers utmost hygiene, high ease of operations and flexibility needed to match this customer’s needs, considering the various products they’ll process through the line.” www.sidel.com MASTER YOUR PROCESSES . OPTIMIZE YOUR POTENTIALS WITH US. PREFORM VISION INSPECTION WWW.INTRAVIS.COM/PREFORM