PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2020

BOTTLING / FILLING PETplanet Insider Vol. 21 No. 09/20 www.petpla.net 43 investing a total of US$ 10 million – about two-thirds of Uganda’s planned budget for 2018. KHS was awarded the contract for the new PET line. In addition to an Innoket Neo labeller the pack- age includes an InnoPET BloFill stretch blow moulder/filler block with a capacity of up to 25,000 500ml bph. The company was impressed by the Innofill PET NV water filler – the first machine designed for still water that Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Uganda has acquired so far. The Dortmund systems supplier has chalked up points with other projects KHS has also implemented for CCBA in Uganda including a PET line for carbonated Coca-Cola soft drinks installed in Mbarara in 2015. Expertise in bottles KHS experts of the company’s Bottles & Shapes program contributed their expertise in the development and optimisation of bottles. Their consul- tancy service produces PET bottles which have been optimised in terms of both ecology and economy and boast 100% line suitability and compliance with the customer’s design concepts. Although the line was officially commissioned in May 2019 by the president of Uganda, represented by the minister of trade, industry and cooperatives, production has been running since the beginning of the year. The performance figures of the new system have exceeded CCBA’s expectations. “We’re achieving a line efficiency of 98%,” says Conrad van Niekerk, happily, managing director of CCBA Uganda. “And Rwenzori’s water bottling line operates around the clock, seven days a week. The performance figures of this line and those from Mbarara are the best in the entire group.” Even though the expanded capacity is already reach- ing its limits, the key factor in CCBA’s output is the availability of water which is a limited and therefore precious resource in Uganda. In addition to efficiency, the sub- ject of sustainability is becoming increasingly important not only for beverage producers in Uganda but for the rest of Africa as well. CCBA can score here, too: under the motto of ‘a world without waste’ CCBA wants to help ensure that by 2030 100% of all PET bottles sold are collected and recycled. Plastic Recycling Industries, a recycling initiative owned by CCBA and founded specifically for this pur- pose, buys collected PET bottles from consumers and then reintroduces them to the recovered materials cycle. www.khs.com Edward Ojede (left) and Innocent Obong, both from CCBA, on either side of KHS key account service manager Dilesh Karia Building the future in every moment of your business 40 Bar Oil-Free Piston Compressors for PET Applications. hertz-kompressoren.com