Procomac cooperation with Coca-Cola continues: after the aseptic filling
line installed at Norbega in Bilbao, Spain, Procomac has been chosen to supply
a rinsing/filling/capping bloc for mineral water in 0.5 and 1.5 l. PET bottles
to Coca-Cola Icecek (CCI), the only local authorised bottler
for the Eurasian market.
the headquarters of Coca-Cola Icecek are located
in Istanbul, and the company has five production facilities all over Turkey
with a total production capability of over 375 million cases. The bloc will be
installed at Mahmudiye production facility; it features a rotary 1-treatment
Gripstar ACE rinser and a gravity filler Fillstar SF.
Gripstar ACE rinser,
thanks to its neck handling system, features a shot changeover time: bottle
pads can be replaced without tools.
Moreover, Gripstar ACE treatment times
is easily set directly from the control panel according to each different
container; in this way it is possible to optimise water consumption.
Procomac Fillstar SF gravity filler for still liquids features a simple
filling head structure, with a mobile lower part moved by the bottle neck that
starts and ends the filling cycle.
The very simple structure accounts for a
perfect closed loop CIP with dummy bottles, either following product flow or in
counter current flow.
Hygiene of the bloc is kept thanks to an overpressure
of sterile air by HEPA filters deployed to produce a laminar flow of sterile
air over the path of bottles. The bloc supplied to CCI is designed for a
nominal speed of 21,000 bottles/hour.
(05/23/2007)