Sidel is offering complete and modular PET packaging solutions, including people, services and equipment.

With 30,000 machines installed in more than 190 nations,the company's fields of activities are filling equipment(for over 80 years), preform and bottle production lines (or more than 50 years) and labeling (for more than 35 years). Sidel has 40 years of aseptic packaging expertise, and were one of the first companies to introduce PET bottles to the beverage industry over 30 years ago.

Part of Tetra Laval group and headquartered in Switzerland, Sidel has over 50 office locations, 13 production sites and 7 training centres worldwide and 5,400 employees worldwide.

Products / Technology

Liquid filling

Sidel covers the entire process chain for liquid filling. The portfolio includes:

complete line solutions, including standalone equipment such as
blow moulders,
fillers: the aseptic filling lines comprise wet sterilisation technology and dry preform sterilisation using hydrogen peroxide. The single packaging functions can also be fitted to a combined line.
labellers
associated services

PET bottle design

Development of different shapes and sizes
flexible moulding technologies
convenience aspects concerning the handling of large PET-containers or light weighting
logistical aspects such as better storing solutions.

Equipment training and maintenance

Sidel runs seven training facilities in France, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, USA, Malaysia and China. They offer seminars and technical trainings in different sectors such as filling technologies, maintenance and product applications. The company also took part in the European project "SKILLS, Multimodal Interfaces for Capturing and Transfer of Skills", funded by the European Framework Programme IST FP6. Sidel’s contribution to the five-year project phase was to test and develop virtual and augmented reality platforms for industrial training.The company has also developed individual, customer-orientated on-the-job training and offers maintenance services on-site.

History

References

Sidel
Sidel
Founded	1965
Headquarters	Hünenberg, Switzerland
Key people	Sam Strömersten (CEO) ; Juergen Foss (CFO)
Number of employees	5,460 (2014)
Parent	Tetra Laval
Website	www.sidel.com