Sidel expands glass bottling flexibility for Italy’s iconic brand, Birra Peroni

A growing domestic market and a trend towards premium beer in the UK and the US recently led Birra Peroni, part of Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., to upgrade their glass bottling capacity. The primary objectives for the leading Italian brewer were increased productivity, flexibility and sustainability. A new complete glass line from their long-term partner Sidel, featuring the EvoFILL Glass filler and EvoDECO Cold Glue labeller and capable of running at 50,000 bottles per hour, helped achieve these goals. The line is installed at the company’s factory in Bari, Southern Italy, and is intended to bottle two products in their portfolio: Peroni, both as returnable and one-way glass bottles, and Peroni Nastro Azzurro.

Success at Nestlé Special.T factory with safe and easy-to-use cobotic palletisers

The global market for tea is projected to grow due to trends such as premiumisation, the addition of exotic flavours and health positioning. Nestlé capitalised on these positive developments by installing two CoboAccess™_Pal units at their site in Orbe, Switzerland, where they produce tea in capsules under the Special.T brand. CoboAccess™_Pal is an industrial, safe and easy-to-use cobotic palletising solution from Sidel. Through automated palletising, Nestlé Suisse SA Orbe gained higher pallet quality while ensuring operator safety. The solution’s automation platform also promotes the ease of operations, which allows better-­controlled trajectories for improved cobot picking and placing.

Bali Hai in Indonesia trusts Sidel’s complete can line

A growing market for beer has led Bali Hai Brewery Indonesia to install a new canning line that accommodates a higher production capacity while ensuring the quality of their premium beers. Designed and supplied by Sidel, the line runs at up to 33,000 cans per hour for the 330 ml format, which is twice as fast as its previous line and features a very compact layout to overcome the brewer’s space constraints.

As the country’s leading independent brewery, Bali Hai Brewery Indonesia has been developing and distributing a distinctive range of beer brands for the national and international markets since 1975. To keep up with the growing demand in the domestic market, while protecting the consistent taste and quality of their products, Bali Hai decided to partner with Sidel for the very first time and invested in a complete canning line. Featuring a very compact footprint, the line includes the latest Sidel volumetric electronic filler for cans and the proven PAMA pasteuriser to help the brewer maintain quality.

China’s largest beverage producer invests in the world’s fastest aseptic PET line

Jin Mai Lang, China’s largest beverage producer, recently installed two Sidel complete aseptic PET lines, which both integrate Tetra Pak Processing System technologies and the company’s Aseptic Combi Predis™. With a production output of 60,000 bottles per hour, these are the world’s fastest aseptic PET lines with dry preform decontamination for low acid products. The turnkey project, alongside newly designed PET bottles by Sidel, helped the customer increase the production capacity of their black and green tea, plus various kinds of flavoured water, while reducing their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Following these successes, Jin Mai Lang recently invested in another three Sidel aseptic complete lines, running at the same speed.