BEERS & CIDERS
Complete can line for greater capacity and preserved beer quality Bali Hai Brewery, situated in Indonesia approached Sidel to install a new canning line. The aim was to secure a higher production capacity while maintaining the quality of its premium beers.
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esigned and supplied by Sidel, the
a line that could deliver 24 000 cans per hour
(330ml and 500ml ); nine different recipes
line runs at up to 33 000 cans per
(cph) for the 500ml format. We trusted in
and various secondary packaging options, the
hour for the 330ml format, twice as
Sidel’s engineers and went for a complete
number of SKUs handled by Bali Hai’s canning
fast as the former line. It features a very
line that can reach up to 29 000cph, thereby
line lies at 18. This required a high level of
compact layout - in line with the brewery’s
securing high capacity production for years to
flexibility at the secondary packaging stage.
space constraints.
come,’ he notes.
Their journey started when the facility
The brewery also decided to shift from
The line includes 13 different machines,
RSC cases to film for economic benefits.
underwent a major renovation and
laid out in six larger production modules: the
To do this, they installed a Sidel EvoFilm
automation of its brewhouse and cellar
de-palletiser, filler and seamer, pasteuriser,
Access. This is a seamless shrink-wrapping
area in 2013. Many of these processes were
dryers, shrink-wrapper, tray shrink-wrapper
solution for low to medium speed
still performed manually. The brewery also
plus conveying systems. Bali Hai’s goal of
applications. They wanted to widen the
decided to upgrade its canning line, managing
protecting beer quality was achieved through
secondary packaging solutions offered to
330ml and 500ml formats to fit their needs
the integration of two specific solutions in
customers, including multipacks.
for higher efficiency. Sidel stepped in with
the line: Sidel’s volumetric electronic filler for
its expertise in line design and engineering,
cans and the PAMA pasteuriser.
deriving from a long-standing heritage in complete solutions for beer.
A modular design concept allows for a broad array of configurations and options.
When explaining the rationale behind
EvoFilm Access offers expanded flexibility.
the choice of the filler, Blegog Sugiono,
‘We added some tailor-made options to fit
packaging manager at Bali Hai, highlights,
Bali Hai’s needs,’ Stéphane Séné, key account
360° SUPPORT ROOTED IN COMPLETE BEER LINE EXPERTISE
‘We opted for Sidel filling technology
manager at Sidel explains. ‘A design to cost
because of the very low total oxygen pick-
approach has been applied to deliver the best
‘The floor space available at our plant is
up. This ensures high product quality. We
quality-price-performance ratio available
limited. We needed a very compact solution
use volumetric technology to guarantee that
on the market for shrink-wrapping at speeds
that did not compromise on efficiency and
our cans are filled to the correct capacity,
of up to 60 cycles per minute. We also
flexibility,’ explains Daniel To, technical
and there is no product waste.’ The PAMA
implemented a simple conveying solution
director at Bali Hai. ‘We were initially planning
pasteuriser features Sidel’s Prince Plus
to feed the shrink-wrapper. The customer
software. It offers ideal control of the
could save factory floor space, which is
pasteurisation unit (PU) and was specifically
now dedicated to warehouse purposes. We
tailored to Bali Hai’s requirements.
removed the need for a divider by orienting
1, 2, 3 & 4 The complete canning line system has a capacity of up to 29 000 cans per hour in the 500ml format and 33 000 cans in the 330ml size
now manage eight pack configurations easily
The canning line runs twice as fast as the
packs and loose cans,’ he concludes. •
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and efficiently. The system can manage both
brewer’s old line. The output became three times bigger, growing from 500 to 1 450 trays per hour. With two different can formats
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the lanes of cans differently. Customers can
FLEXIBLE AND COMPACT TO HANDLE A WIDE VARIETY OF SKUS
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