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)