TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 03/22 www.petpla.net 45 Aseptic line and packaging systems KHS Group will be presenting its entire portfolio of filling technology and environmentally-friendly packaging systems at Anuga FoodTec. With its InnoPET BloFill ACF-L block system the company provides a system solution for sensitive beverages in PET bottles that is low in space. A further focus will be on the new standard interfaces for communication between KHS machines and customer IT systems. For the filling of sensitive beverages in a hygienic environment, the turnkey supplier provides a portfolio of environmentally-friendly systems for various container designs and materials. With the InnoPET BloFill ACF-L stretch blow moulder/filler block, the Dortmund engineering company presents a further development for sensitive beverages in PET bottles that is especially low on space. The new system is claimed to come with a multitude of innovations, one being its new switching valve. This controls the volume of the inflow to the actual filling valve and thus permits a total of four different filling speeds. Bottle volumes both large and small with varying viscosities can be perfectly processed on this machinery – with low foaming an added bonus. The filling process is stored in the product recipes; there is no need for manual conversion. This makes for a reproducible filling quality and improves filling accuracy. The result is a stable output of beverages with different properties, in turn boosting efficiency and the flexibility required to fill a wide assortment of products. New standard interfaces As part of its Basic Line Monitoring process, KHS has developed new standard interfaces for line monitoring and order control. The respective modules facilitate communication between KHS machines and beverage producers’ IT systems. Furthermore, regular updates and new versions ensure a high, reliable quality of data. With this new standardised approach the systems supplier’s and customer’s own IT environments can be connected up to the machines even better and even more economically than before. This renders previously required time- and cost-intensive customised harmonisation and programming superfluous. Secondary packaging systems KHS will also be putting its range of packaging systems on display. Film made of up to 100% recyclate can now be used to wrap containers, as can paper or cardboard. The newly developed Innopack CNP or Carton Nature Packer turns beverage cans into stable packs using toppers or clips made of corrugated cardboard or solid board. Another packaging alternative is Nature MultiPack. This system joins beverage containers together with dots of adhesive to form a stable pack and is intended to save up to 90% in materials by doing away with the secondary packaging. Nature MultiPack is now also available for the highperformance range, with throughputs of up to 108,000 containers per hour possible when running at overcapacity. Depending on the format, the machine manufactures up to 450 packs of four a minute. Retrofits on existing packaging machines KHS offers extensions for existing Innopack machines. The new alternative that wraps beverage cans in paper instead of film is one such retrofit, for instance. Customers can opt for more flexibility by switching between film and paper packaging as required or permanently switch to paper. www.khs.com Hall 5.1 Booth B051 C058 InnoPET BloFill ACF-L stretch blow moulder/filler block In addition to its filling technology and various digital solutions the KHS Group will be exhibiting its range of packaging systems in Cologne.
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