packaging
http://www.industrysourcing.com July 2019 FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal^23Small crates for the single household: Since
2018 Peterstaler has been filling its water into
the new one-litre pool bottle developed by the
Society of German Mineral Water Producers
(Genossenschaft Deutscher Brunnen
or GDB). KHS was instrumental in the
implementation of the project with its holistic,
expert consultancy programme Bottles &
Shapes™. (Source: KHS Group)M
ANUFACTURER of filling and packaging
systems, KHS has developed over 14,000
PET bottle and 7,000 preform designs under
the auspices of its Bottles & Shapes™
programme. The systems supplier has now
expanded its holistic expert consultancy programme for container
design to include glass bottles and cans. Fast, reliable, inline
format changeovers in particular are a major factor for bottlers.
KHS assures just this when new products are launched, with
Peterstaler Mineralquellen GmbH from Bad Peterstal-Griesbach
in the Black Forest now also convinced of this fact. After
investing in a new glass bottle line in 2015 the company recently
decided to launch new glass bottles for its mineral water. The
machine manufacturer from Dortmund was once again largely
instrumental in the success of the project.
A particular project in the Black Forest was approached
from a different angle; where KHS cooperates closely with its
customers on the development of new PET bottles, in the glass
container segment the design was already fixed. Here, Peterstaler
had decided to deploy a new glass bottle developed by the
Society of German Mineral Water Producers (Genossenschaft
Deutscher Brunnen or GDB). “There’s a definite move back to
glass, with the amount used on the increase in the mineral water
industry especially,” says Wolfgang Sum, engineering manager at
Peterstaler Mineralbrunnen. “Closer attention is again being paid
to quality, value and the regional aspect. Because of the greater
weight of transportation and the higher costs this incurs, bottling
in glass only pays off [for deliveries] within a 200-kilometer
radius of our plant.” This was another reason for expanding the
company portfolio.Customer requirements met
When launching the new bottle format the chief focus was on
the wants and needs of the consumer. “There are an increasing
number of single households, for example, and lots of people
don’t want to have to drag heavy crates around anymore,” claims
Sum. To reach out to this target group Peterstaler decided to fill
its products into new containers known as GBD pool bottles ,
a one-litre bottle in crates of six for people living on their own.
“This type of crate is practical and easy to carry and transport,”
Sum said. The mineral water bottling plant also fills 0.5- and 0.7-
litre bottles.
Peterstaler’s mineral water, marketed in a classic and a
medium variety, is sourced from the depths of the Black Forest.
The company’s range of products also includes spritzers, fruitStraight to the supermarket
shelf without a hitch
Peterstaler is now filling newly developed glass bottles through a
project implemented by KHS
juice beverages, soda pops and
sports and vitamin-enriched
drinks. The water is sold in
both returnable and non-
returnable PET and glass
bottles.
In 2015, Peterstaler
invested in a new glass
line from the Dortmund
systems supplier. The
desire for new bottle
formats again involved
the experts from KHS
in the fall of 2017
w h o i m p l e m e n t e d
the project within
the context of its
holistic Bottles &
Shapes™ consultancy
programme. “In
this case this meant
adapting the finished
bottle to the line and
converting this so that
t h e f i l l e d c r a t e s o f
water find their way
t o t h e s u p e r m a r k e t
shelf without a hitch,”
explains Armin Wille,
head of Service Sales
at KHS.Entire line adapted
to process the new
glass bottle
M a k i n g u s e o f
the new bottles meant
t h a t t h e e n t i r e l i n e
had to be readjusted- from the decrater
and bottle conveying
s y s t e m t h r o u g h t h e
filler to the labeler
and crater. The first
bottle was then filled
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