BOTTLE MAKING 18 PETplanet Insider Vol. 26 No. 01+02/25 www.petpla.net Joint approach to packaging development and production The beverage industry is highly competitive. To succeed, companies must produce their drinks in a clean and cost-effective way. But that’s not enough. With so many brands vying for attention, standing out on the shelf is essential. That’s where Sipa comes in providing a design service that helps beverage producers achieve those goals. A recent example is their work with Beysu an important natural spring water producer in Turkey where they also installed different Sincro Bloc systems, enabling them to produce the brand new bottle family. The Beysu plant, which is operated by Konya Suki Enerji Yatirim San. VE TİC. A.Ş., was designed and built to offer high-quality natural spring water to consumers. The water is bottled at the source in the Doğanbey district of Beyşehir. Beysu sought to optimise its production line with a focus on efficiency, hygiene and sustainability, and partnered with Sipa to implement a comprehensive solution tailored to their specific needs. Sipa worked closely with Beysu to develop a range of new bottle formats that would enable them to meet their market demands while optimising material usage and performance. Three immediate objectives were identified on order to achieve the company’s goals: lightweighting, format diversification and performance optimisation. Sipa’s experience in lightweighting hepls Beysu to create bottles that minimised material consumption and consequent environmental impact, without compromising bottle strength or their aesthetics. Sipa also supported Beysu to develop a wide range of bottle formats to cater for different consumer preferences, products and market segments. It now offers water in 250, 330 and 500ml, 1l, 1.5 l and 5 l formats. Sipa’s design tools and simulations, employed over many years and across a wide range of markets, including bottled water, helped to speed up development of bottles that would meet Beysu’s performance requirements for top-load strength, carbonation retention and overall durability. Sincro Bloc: the heart of efficient and hygienic production Beysu’s new production line consists of two Sincro Bloc systems, each of which integrate blow moulding, filling and capping into a single monobloc unit. Sipa says that integrating these processes eliminates unnecessary steps and reduces bottle handling, leading to faster production speeds, lower labour costs and therefore greater efficiency and profitability. Beysu implemented two types of Sincro Blocs: the Sincro Bloc R (for rotary) and Sincro Bloc L (for linear) configurations, in order to accommodate their array of bottle formats and production needs. High-speed production for several bottle formats Beysu’s Sincro Bloc R line features the Xtra 16 rotary blow moulding machine, synchronised with a filler equipped with 60 electronic filling valves and 20 capping valves. This configuration allows for highspeed production across a range of bottle sizes. Up to 48,000 bph can be produced in 250, 330 or 500ml formats. Alternatively, the machine can produce 34,000 bph for 1 l bottles or 31,000 bph for 1.5 l bottles. Beysu’s 5 l bottles are produced on the Sincro Bloc L system, which incorporates the SFL BIG6 linear blow moulding machine synchronised with a filler equipped with 16 electronic filling valves and six capping valves. This configuration achieves a production speed of 6,600 bph for the 5 l format. Xtra rotary blow moulding machine The Xtra rotary blow moulding machine used in the Sincro Bloc R
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