BOTTLING / FILLING PETplanet Insider Vol. 25 No. 05/24 www.petpla.net 38 Kazakh mineral water bottler on expansion course with Ukrainian technology From regional to national On the southern tip of Kazakhstan, near the border with Uzbekistan, not far from the small town of Saryagash, lies the water bottler Alex Saryagash. Founded in 1993, the company has been bottling water for more than 30 years and was a pioneer in Kazakhstan in bottling in plastic. The water bottled at Alex Saryagash is a natural, mineral-rich and soft drinking water with, according to the company, a high content of active micro-constituents. The source comes from an artesian basin in the Turkestan region, the Pritashkent mineral water deposit in the Saryagash district. Here, the water is extracted from a depth of about 2,000m. Its content of active micro components and its salt content of up to 1 g/dm3. It can be consumed daily in any quantity both for medicinal purposes and as a refreshing drink. Alex Saryagash is available in transparent PET bottles of 0.5 l, 1 l and 1.5 l, both carbonated and non-carbonated. Alex Saryagash has been working at national level since 1995. Since its founding, the company, which started with 45 employees at the time, has grown immensely, employing a total of almost 130,000 people during that period and filling 2.1 billion litres of water into 1.4 billion bottles by 2022. In the course of its existence, Alex Saryagash developed new product formats and expanded its beverage portfolio for a growing population. Since 2007, the bottler has relied on the Ukrainian machine manufacturer PET Technologies. The cooperation began with a large order for a total of 18 APF- 4 blowmoulding machines, which Alex Saryagash had installed in his factory and almost all of which are still in operation today. Later came two more PET Technologies APF6004 blowmoulding machines, each equipped with four cavities like the older models in the factory and with an output of 6,000 1.5 l bottles per hour, which is almost twice as high. In 2021, the company renewed its logo and, accordingly, its bottle labels, and continued to push its growth through large-scale advertising campaigns in addition to technical investments. On the technical side, blow moulds for the redesigned 1.5 l bottles were produced and equipment supplied by PET Technologies. Since 2022, the now once regional brand has been supplying the water market on a national level. www.alexsu.kz www.pet-eu.com Blow moulding equipment from PET Technologies
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