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Martens Brewery: Full-bottle palletizer for barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Bottles fan out into lanes and then are swept layer by layer onto pallets on equipment from KHS.
January 31, 2004
Beer: Page 39
Secondary Packaging
Martens Brewery: Stretch wrapper for barrier-coated PET beer bottles
The final part of the packaging process is the stretch wrapping of pallets.
January 31, 2004
Converting equipment
Martens Brewery: Blow molding of barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Preforms move down a track and into the enclosed blow molding area. Finished amber bottles then undergo internal coating (not shown here) and are stored on pallets until needed. Blow molding equipment is supplied by Sidel.
January 31, 2004
Secondary Packaging
Martens Brewery: Palletizing empty barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Empty bottles are automatically palletized on KHS equipment and then banded.
January 31, 2004
Secondary Packaging
Martens Brewery: Depalletizing empty barrier-coated PET beer bottles
From storage, bottles are forklifted into a high-level depalletizer from KHS.
January 31, 2004
Beverage
Martens Brewery: Rinsing barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Prior to filling, bottles are inverted and rinsed on equipment from KHS.
January 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Martens Brewery: Transfer to full-bottle palletizing of filled, barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Shrink-wrapped six packs exit the wet room via a spiral conveyor that takes them to the infeed of the full- bottle palletizer, supplied by KHS.
January 31, 2004
Filling/capping, dry
Feldschloesschen Brewery: Filling and capping of beer in PET
Freshly blown PET bottles are conveyed overhead and then move down to the filler/capper, where a sophisticated system of transfer stars moves them through filling and capping on Krones equipment.
January 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Feldschloesschen Brewery: Labeling of beer in PET
Overhead view of the Krones Contiroll hot-glue labeler shows the feedscrew-to-starwheels transfer.
January 31, 2004
Secondary Packaging
Feldschloesschen Brewery: Tray packing of beer in PET
Massed bottles move into the Krones Variopac tray packer, where they're divided into lanes and then collated and tray packed.
January 31, 2004
Secondary Packaging
Feldschloesschen Brewery: Stretch wrapping of beer in PET
As a full pallet receives its top layer and exits, a fresh pallet is automatically moved into place. At the stretch wrapper, a top sheet of film is automatically dispensed. Stretch wrapping equipment is supplied by Krones.
January 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Calls for "Alcohol Facts" panel
The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the National Consumers League petitioned the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to require uniform “Alcohol Facts” labels on all alcoholic beverage packages.
January 31, 2004
Containers
Belgian brewer moves fast to barrier-coated bottles
Deposit legislation in Germany spurred Martens Brewery to invest in an in-house line for making, coating, filling, and packaging of PET beer bottles.See video
January 31, 2004
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