From the very beginning of the 19th century, the two mineral water springs of "Santo Gemini" ( at that time a small village "along the road that leads to Todi") were so renowned that the local administrators decided to take advantage of the therapeutic properties of the water and consequently established the first water bottling plant that comprised all the production phases, starting from the bottle rinsing phase right through to the capping phase.
The plant at that time, employed 50 employees and a crate of 50 1litre bottles cost 24 liras ( more or less one cent of a euro) and a half litre case, cost 18 liras. The San Gemini brand soon became an Italian household name and distinguished as "incomparable table mineral water".
The characteristics and the properties of the San Gemini water were constantly examined and with the help of medical-scientific sources, this water was found to be particularly suitable for infants. As a result, three generations of Italians grew up thanks to the "children's water".
Today, that bottling factory houses two plants, one for the production of Sangemini mineral water and for Acqua Fabia brand mineral water and the other one for the production of soft drinks and fruit juices Vita and Camomilla. Both plants are equipped with technologically advanced facilities and modern machinery, among these, the aseptic line for the production of Vita fruit juice supplied by Procomac Spa.
Recently Procomac Packaging has realized the traditional end-of-line system, supplying two new pack conveyors, pallet conveyors and palletisers Agilis 2000D to replace the existing one. The palettizers with double - high level product infeed, vertical lift pallet loading system are coupled by only one operator service platform and equipped with motorized divider unit. The line is pre-arranged for processing euro and chep pallets and (düsseldorfer) half pallet to attain a production speed of 43.200 bph packs 3x2 format 1.5 lt.
The line is fitted with a centralised pallet control system with brushing device which rejects the non suitable pallets (for one production), stacks the good ones and distributes the pallets to the new palletizers and to the existing one (supplied by Procomac Packaging ) through a shuttle with two pallets on board. The palletizers are equipped with a supervision system with closed circuit cameras that locate any possible alarms on the upper part of the machine structure, thereby the operator does not need to conduct an inspection or have to find the relative alarm.

(05/10/2007)