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Eco services help bottler reduce blow-molding energy costs

Implementation of consumption monitoring and process control tools help The Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company to significantly reduce blowing pressure and electricity use.

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The Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company has implemented Sidel’s ECO Booster™ service on four of its Sidel SBO14/14 blow-molding machines for various bottle formats in order to make significant reductions in both the blowing pressure and the blowing ovens’ use of electricity. Across 10 different bottle formats, the average reduction in blowing pressure is 45.9% (the lowest being 19.4% and the highest 50.7%).The average reduction in the ovens’ energy consumption is 22.3% (with the lowest saving being 15.7% and the highest being 38.1%).

Midwest Coca-Cola is located in Eagan, MN. The company manufactures bottles and distributes Coca-Cola products throughout much of the midwestern United States.The company naturally wanted to maximize its profitability by increasing its production efficiency and minimizing its operational costs.Yet, at the same time, the company was also looking to reduce the environmental impact of its processes and that of its resource use.Midwest Coca-Cola called in Sidel hoping to achieve tangible cost and energy savings through a detailed overview of existing line conditions during full production.

Explains Jim Tierney, Maintenance Manager of Midwest Coca-Cola, “Reduced resource use means reduced costs, which is a sustainability win-win for us.For this reason we are always looking to speak with our partners about new innovations that can help us achieve this goal.The Sidel ECO Booster is a great example of this, resulting in a significant reduction of our blowing air pressure and oven electricity use across four of our lines."

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