SUCCESS STORIES
Many Coaters, One Surface Quality A Hamburg-based mechanical engineering company in Germany largely transitions its suppliers to system coatings from FreiLacke; now the parent company is following suit.
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t takes many individual steps to make sure that beverages safely
Plug & Play in Hamburg
reach their point of sale – and therefore the customer: from
Individual components of the stretch blow moulders are built
designing a suitable container shape and size, to production, filling
externally by different service providers, which also coat and pre-
and labelling and, finally, the packaging process. That is the core
assemble them at their respective facilities. The machines are then
competency of KHS GmbH, a global provider of filling and packaging
assembled in Hamburg using these individual parts. “An expansion
solutions. Since 2008, Corpoplast, the Hamburg-based mechanical
of the procurement structure to all of Europe and an intensification
engineering company, has been part of the Dortmund-based
of our multi-supplier strategy meant that we had to simultaneously
KHS Group and specialises in the development and production of
adapt our coatings”, said Hans-Jörg Heidsiek, who is responsible
systems for PET bottles. Some of these ten-metre-long machines can
for the procurement of the assemblies at Corpoplast. “At the same
manufacture up to 81,000 bottles per hour – that means two million
time, we had to ensure consistently uniform optics”. Because, even
bottles daily.
though each of the manufacturers used a “traffic white” (RAL 9016)
© Corpoplast
KHS GmbH specialises in the development and production of filling, labelling and packaging systems.
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