Non-Returnable Bottle (NRB) Packaging Line

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Location: Netherlands

Available: Immediately

Key Specifications

Nominal speed in bottles per hour

  • 25cl: 40.000/hr
  • 33cl: 35.000/hr
  • 50cl: 30.000/hr

Type of bottles

  • 25cl, 30cl, 33cl, 50cl

Type of packaging

  • 4 x 6 x 25cl
  • 1 x 12 x 25cl
  • 24 x 25cl
  • 24 x 30cl
  • 4 x 6 x 33cl
  • 6 x 4 x 33cl
  • 1 x 12 x 33cl
  • 24 x 33cl
  • 20 x 50cl

The nominal output (speed) of the individual machines are specified in the documentation and/or specifications of each machine. The line is designed for running in 3-shift operation at nominal speed, up to 7 days per week.

Non Returnable Bottle (NRB) Packaging Line Layout

Key Characteristics

Production line is designed with the following characteristics.

  • Transparent ‘See Through’ design
  • World class machinery (SIG Simonazzi, Sidel, Logopak, Krones, Heuft, FANUC, Domino, Bortolin, BBULL, )
  • Hygienic design
  • Automatic grease lubrication of machines
  • Automatic CIP
  • Automated change-over
  • Condition monitoring
  • SCADA and MIS (Packaging Line Performance, Planning, Production and Downtime, Energy Consumption)

Processing of

Bottles

  • Rinsing bottles with water
  • Filling bottles with beer
  • Capping bottles with crown caps
  • Pasteurising beer in bottles
  • Labelling bottles (neck, body, and back)
  • Coding bottles

Packaging

  • Unfolding
  • Packing with beer bottles
  • Coding
  • Weighing
  • Stacking on output pallet
  • Shrinking plastic cover around output pallet

Production programmes

  • All bottles arrive on bulk pallet 1200 * 1000 mm. The bottles are stacked on layer pads, which are reused. On top a carton tray is The bottles on the pallet are secured with shrink foil wrapping, which is removed manually before depalletising.
  • The depalletised bottles enter a rinser/filler
  • The bottles are rinsed and filled in a filler/crowner, flushed with water and inspected for fill height
  • Products can be tunnel pasteurised or plate
  • Before the labeller the bottles are blown off by an “air ”
  • Next step is labelling, laser marking and label-/fill height- and leakage
  • After labelling the bottles can travel in one direction to a carton packer
  • The cartons are erected in a carton
  • After erection, baskets are inserted into the
  • Hereafter bottles are packed into the
  • The cartons are closed and code
  • 12 or 24 cartons are travelling via a full goods inspector directly to palletising.
  • Empty pallets are inspected before entering the
  • Palletised pallets are equipped with heat shrink plastic foil at top and sides
  • Labels are supplied on the short and the long