New can-flling line from RHODIUS doubles capacities.

With the commissioning of its third KHS canning line at the beginning of the year, beverage bottler

RHODIUS from Burgbrohl in Germany considers itself very well equipped for the future. The flling line is state of the art, thus strengthening the innovative strength and competitiveness of the long-standing family business. “Our customers not only beneft from an additional flling capacity of up to 99,000 cans per hour. In terms of quality, energy effciency, and product and packaging variety, the new line also enables us to meet our customers’ requirements even more individually,” explains Sven Wustlich, head of the canning line at RHODIUS.

RHODIUS strengthens its own core competencies with new can flling line

With a customer base of almost 100 companies, RHODIUS Co-Packing knows how different the requirements and needs in can-flling can be. In order to meet these demands at all times, suffcient space was planned during the construction of the new canning line to add further components if required in the future. This may be necessary, for example, if new regulations have to be implemented or major customers express special individualization requirements for can-flling, for which additional components have to be connected.

The new can-flling line can therefore be specifcally adapted to the needs and developments of customers and enables comprehensive product and packaging diversity.

The contract-flling expert attaches great importance to ensuring that the highest quality standards apply in all areas of cooperation with customers. This performance promise already starts with the support by a persona I contact person who is available to the customer for all issues arising and who is committed to the customer’s interests, so that many long-standing partnerships already exist. An important element of this cooperation is delivery reliability, which customers supplying the food retail trade in particular must be able to rely on. The new can flling line not only creates additional capacity for this, but also sets new standards in terms of quality and process reliability. In addition, the plant meets the requirements in terms of climateneutral flling.

The performance promise of the German company is based on the greatest possible transparency in all phases of production. For example, important planning and production data is proactively communicated to customers so that they are informed about the production date, the fnal production quantity, or the number of beverage can rejects. Here, too, customers beneft from the capabilities of the new can fller, because thanks to automatic inline measurement, all relevant parameters are continuously checked.

Alcoholic beverages can be processed directly at the mixer with the new canning line thanks to a separate module. This ensures consistently high beverage quality, as even minimal deviations are immediately detected and automatically corrected. Together with the company’s own bonded warehouse and a large alcohol warehouse where 96% alcohol can be processed, this is particularly interesting for customers in the ready-to-drink sector.

“With our new can flling line, we are strengthening our position as a contract fller for beverage cans and at the same time creating many new opportunities for our customers. We look forward to continuing to demonstrate our value proposition in the future by working with brands large and small,” summarizes Hannes Tack, managing partner of RHODIUS Mineralquellen.

Managed by the eighth generation, the product portfolio in the co-packing sector includes a wide variety of beverages: from minerai water, soft and energy drinks to wine and winebased beverages, beer and beermixed beverages to alcoholic mixed drinks (ready-to-drink}, hard seltzer and bitters.

The enormous variety of cans and packaging is also refected in the company’s own brands and licensed brands: from the premium minerai water brand RHODIUS, the regionally anchored minerai water brand Vulkanpark-Quelle Eifel, to the iconic licensed brands afri cola & Bluna, Maya Mate and Kicos, to the hip brand My Mate, a cooperation with the well-known DJ Robin Schulz.

RHODIUS serves a wide range of users - regionally, nationally and internationally. In 2022, the company generateci a turnover of 140 million euros with sales of more than 2 million hectoliters. 358 employees ensure professional production and smooth distribution.

www.rhodius-copacking.com