PET line brings capacity, flexibility to Coke plant

摘要

It's the sheer size of the Sidel Combi blow/fill/cap system that registers first when a visitor encounters the new PET bottling line at Coca-Cola Enterprises in Toulouse, France. That and the remarkable number of bottles sailing down their various conveyor connections.rnThe Combi has 20 blowing stations, 160 filling nozzles, and 20 capping stations. As Sidel's Clive Barnes puts it, "There's an awful lot of product flowing through that filler."rnAnd yet, ironically enough, it was the Combi's compactness that appealed to the CCE engineers who were responsible for commissioning the new line. Toulouse operations manager Arnaud Perrin makes this quite clear.