Fonti Di Posina invests in Sidel’s combined blow fill cap solution
Fonti Di Posina, an Italian bottling company, has invested in Sidel’s new aseptic combined blow fill cap solution with dry preform decontamination – Combi Predis FMa.
The technology removes the need for any bottle rinsing and enables lightweighting of the company’s 1.5 litre bottles. The aseptic PET Combi achieved 95% efficiency while allowing doubling of the current aseptic production capacity. Fitted with an ecological oven, the solution has created energy savings of 43% at the blowing stage.
The new line was installed in a filling hall built as an extension to the existing bottling plant, its compact and linear footprint simplifying and speeding up the installation process. Validation of the aseptic process was achieved a couple of weeks later on production of 0.5 litre bottles of tea with the line running at a rate of 12,000 bottles per hour.
“In total, more than a hundred different bottle references will be produced on this line at the end of the year and we target two hundred within two years”, said Agostino Biella, a shareholder of holding company Montecristo, the main owner of Fonti Di Posina. “As production often needs to be changed several times per day, this investment has made a real difference by reducing the time required to clean and sterilise the machine thereby making changeover faster. We want to be in the right place, at the right time with the right product,” continues Antonio Biella. “This is why we needed very flexible production capabilities that could allow us to produce a very broad range of beverages in different bottle formats, mainly in small batches.”
