BOTTLING / FILLING PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 03/22 www.petpla.net 21 Redesigned bottle with increased practicality Sidel recently supported one of Africa’s leading edible oil producers, Willowton, with redesigning the bottle and installing two standalone blowers – EvoBlow SBO 10 and SBO 16. The new cylindrical Sunfoil silhouette bottle not only had an elevated aesthetic level, but also increased practicality due to its easy-to-handle beltinspired design and reduced diameter. The company also benefited from its two blowers, ensuring higher performance and production integrity. “With the Sidel blowers, we have already increased our yearly production volume by 50% and we are ready to handle any future additional demand as well,” says Faisal Modi, Operations Manager at Willowton. Enhanced productivity and cost-saving Sidel has a strong heritage in edible oil, acting as a one-stop-shop partner in proposing complete and integrated PET lines including a combi configuration, which can help minimise equipment and conveying footprint by up to 30%. Agrimed chose Sidel’s complete edible oil line solution to sustain its leading market position in Tunisia and other export regions such as Libya and the Middle East. The company already owned a Sidel blower and labeller for various bottle sizes. As a result of good performance from their existing Sidel equipment, Agrimed invested in a new complete line including the new blowing/filling/capping combi with Serac. Net weight filling technology dedicated for its 1 l bottle line, running at 18,000 bph. The highspeed complete line has enhanced its productivity by reducing the previous long changeover time. Mohamed Laamouri, Plant Manager at Agrimed stressed that many costs had been saved with bottle lightweighting options while bottle robustness has also been optimised. This aspect is especially important to him as these bottles will be in wrap around cases. Today, edible oil is a very competitive market category, essentially driven by product and brand differentiation as well as competitiveness through packaging cost savings, production efficiency and permanent asset optimisation. Sidel states that it has generated many success cases with edible oil players in the Middle East and Africa, both in the low and high speed market. Sidel addresses the low speed market through Synergy, its linear blow moulding provider. www.sidel.com September 12-16, 2022 Munich, Germany Hall C5, Booth 440 Innovative solutions for special preforms PMC units for all major PET systems German Technology
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