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HOT FILL COMPLETE LINE SOLUTION
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HOT FILL COMPLETE LINE SOLUTION

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Overview
Sidel's comprehensive Hot Fill solution is designed for packaging sensitive beverages such as juices, teas, and sports drinks in PET bottles. The document highlights the increasing market demand for these beverages and the benefits of hot fill technology, which ensures safe ambient distribution and extended shelf life.
Market Growth
The consumption of sensitive drinks is growing at a rate of 6% annually, offering significant opportunities for beverage producers. Sidel's Hot Fill solution aims to leverage this growth by providing a complete, cost-efficient, and sustainable packaging solution.
Hot Filling Process
The hot filling process involves sterilizing the beverage, bottle, and cap at temperatures between 80 to 92 °C. Sidel has pioneered heat-resistant PET bottles through its HR (Heat Set) technology to withstand these temperatures.
Sidel's Experience and Innovations
With over 45 years of experience, Sidel has developed lightweight HR bottles that endure hot filling temperatures. Innovations include an electrical heat-resistant blower that improves blowing performance and reduces energy and air consumption by up to 45%.
Packaging Design
Sidel offers a comprehensive packaging approach, from preform design to production optimization. Their HR PET bottles accommodate volume variations during filling, with innovations like the Inverted Bottle Base (IBB) technology that allows for more design freedom by eliminating the need for panels.
Equipment and Performance
The Sidel Matrix eHR blower uses electrical heating for improved bottle consistency and energy savings, reducing energy and air consumption by up to 45%, ensuring optimal hygiene and safety.
Filling Process
The Sidel Matrix hot filler provides flexibility for various beverages and formats, with production speeds ranging from 6,000 to 60,000 bottles per hour. It features electronic filling valves for precise filling volumes and enhanced food safety through contactless filling valves and stainless steel components.
Conclusion
Sidel's Hot Fill solution offers a comprehensive approach to beverage packaging, combining advanced technology and innovative design to optimize production and meet market demands.
Overview of Sidel Matrix Hot Filler SF700
The Sidel Matrix hot filler SF700 is designed to meet high safety and quality standards for various beverage types. Key features include an external product supply tank, electronic filling valves with individual flow-meters, and dual-speed filling to avoid foam generation, ensuring no contact between the bottle and filling valve to reduce cross-contamination risks.
Integrated Solution: Sidel Matrix Combi Hot Fill
This solution combines blowing, filling, and capping in one enclosure, offering up to 4% higher efficiency and reducing operating costs by up to 12%. It provides flexibility in production setup, ensuring hygiene and food safety while allowing for faster format changeovers and lower energy consumption.
Cap Sterilisation and Cooling
After filling and capping, bottles undergo cap sterilisation to eliminate microorganisms, extending shelf life. The cooling system preserves beverage quality by maintaining taste and color, with a 20% reduced footprint and optimized water consumption.
Labelling Solutions
The Sidel Matrix roll-fed labeller SL70 offers fast and flexible labelling, handling up to 60,000 labels per hour. It supports various label types and ensures precise application with reduced maintenance needs. The Rollsleeve labeller provides a glue-free, high-speed shrink sleeve process, reducing environmental impact and costs.
Packing and Palletising
Sidel offers solutions for secondary packaging, ensuring product safety and appeal. Their systems support flexible handling of multiple SKUs and efficient palletising, with options for conventional or robotic systems to manage different product formats.
Sidel Services
Sidel provides comprehensive services to maintain and improve production efficiency, including maintenance, line improvement, training, and spare parts management, ensuring long-term success and adaptability to new market demands.
Overview of Sidel Group
The Sidel Group, including Sidel and Gebo Cermex, is a leading provider of packaging equipment and services for liquids, foods, and personal care products, specializing in packaging materials such as PET, cans, and glass.
Experience and Reach
With over 37,000 machines installed in more than 190 countries, Sidel boasts nearly 170 years of experience, focusing on advanced systems, line engineering, and innovation, supported by a global workforce of over 5,000 employees.
Customer-Centric Approach
Sidel emphasizes understanding customer challenges and goals through dialogue and market analysis, leveraging technical knowledge and data analytics to enhance productivity and performance.
Intellectual Property
All intellectual rights, including copyright, are reserved by Sidel, and reproduction of the content requires prior written approval.
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JUICES, TEAS & SPORTS DRINKS COMPLETE LINE SOLUTION

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DESIGN WITHOUT LIMITS The popularity of PET Hot Fill continues to rise - and with good reason. Sidel leads this development with a complete Hot Fill solution that expands packaging opportunities. Take advantage of market growth The consumption of sensitive drinks such as juices, nectars, still drinks, isotonics and teas is growing at a rate of 6% annually. This trend presents significant business development opportunities for beverage producers worldwide. Achieve safe ambient distribution Packaging for ambient distribution is an attractive method for extending the shelf life of beverages. Hot...

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PACKING AND PALLETISING Pages 24-25 PROCESSING SYSTEM Page 4 HOT FILLING AND COMBI Pages 12-17 HEAT-RESISTANT PET PACKAGING Pages 6-7 SIDEL SERVICES Pages 26-27 ONE PARTNER FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS A fully connected line lets you optimise performance and make more informed decisions across the lifetime of your line. Our flexible approach to complete line design is dedicated to meeting all of your hot filling needs. Wide-ranging expertise, equipment and on-going services help you along the entire process, from packaging to fast ramp-up and beyond. Partnering with Sidel gives you the benefit of having...

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INCREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR PET HOT FILLED BEVERAGE PIONEERS IN HEAT-RESISTANT PET PACKAGING More than 30 years ago, Sidel pioneered the heat-resistant (HR) technology for PET bottles. Today, Sidel's unmatched expertise in packaging helps you achieve more - right from the beginning. HR PET bottles resist hot filling temperatures These bottles are produced via a heat-resistant stretch blow moulding process that has very specific bottle manufacturing requirements. One of these is the traditional design, featuring vacuum panels that are used to absorb the volume variations between hot and cold conditions....

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INCREASE HR BLOWING PERFORMANCE HIGH QUALITY ELECTRICAL MOULD HEATING The latest model for HR bottles adds yet another innovative dimension to the Sidel Hot Fill line. By using electricity rather than oil to heat the mould, the Sidel Matrix eHR blower increases bottle consistency and energy savings while enhancing operator safety, production flexibility and uptime. The very best HR bottle quality The eHR blowing process is very reactive. As the temperature probes are located directly in each mould shell, they regulate the temperature closest to the bottle. The temperature increases three times...

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FACTS AND FIGURES THE EHR PROCESS Control and quality are improved with the optimised electrical heating process ■ Four electrical resistances are located in each half shell of the mould ■ Electrical power distributes heating on top, medium and lower bottle areas ■ One probe for temperature control and self-regulation is located in each half shell ■ Setting temperature is applied directly to each half shell by decentralised control units ■ Only the mould is heated, as thermal insulation ensures no direct contact between shell holder and the mould RANGE OVERVIEW Blower model * for bottle diameter...

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OPTIMISE THE HOT FILLING PROCESS HYGIENIC DESIGN AND OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY For even more configuration possibilities, the Sidel Matrix™ hot filler – SF700 offers the highest standards of hygiene and operational reliability during filling. This ensures it can meet the production demands of fresh, sensitive and natural beverages. Excellent flexibility The filler can be used for a variety of beverages and formats to match your production needs: ■ andles beverages such as teas, isotonics, juices, with H or without pulps or particles (up to 10 x 10 x 10 mm) ■ an fill hot or cold beverages C ■ uitable...

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FACTS AND FIGURES Automatic dummy bottles allow the cleaning loop of all parts in contact with the beverage, all made from stainless steel 316L. THE HOT FILLING PROCESS The Sidel Matrix hot filler SF700 meets high safety and quality production standards for any beverage type. ■ The product supply tank is located outside the filling carousel. This acts as a buffer and allows changes in flow rate without placing stress on the filling valve or the beverage. ■ From this external product tank, the product is delivered by a pump to a product distributor ring situated on the top of the carousel. This...

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COMPACT AND FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION SETUP The Sidel Matrix Combi Hot Fill is an integrated btow-fitl-cap solution that produces hot filled beverages in PET bottles in one single enclosure. It incorporates the very best of our modular Sidel Matrix eHR blower and SF700 filler together with the advantages of the standard Combi configuration. Flexible and hygienic This flexible solution offers an extensive range of configurations. Elimination of conveying, empty bottle handling, accumulation and storage optimises the design and efficiency of the line layout, making it more compact and ergonomic. The...

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ENSURE BEVERAGE SAFETY AND QUALITY SAFE, EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE PROCESS CONTROL Great beverage consistency Once the hot beverage is filled and capped, the headspace and cap are sterilised. The Sidel cap steriliser controls this process by tilting the bottle with the precise angle, temperature and contact time. This step puts all internal surfaces and air space in contact with the hot beverage, eliminating micro organisms and extending product shelf life. For effective sterilisation, bottles are rotated up to 110 degrees. This keeps the hot beverage in contact with the cap and removes possible...

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FAST AND FLEXIBLE ROLL-FED LABELLING Once a packaging solution is blown, filled and capped, it moves onto one of its most defining features - the label. At Sidel, we make sure you stay on top of labelling trends. Whether you require roll-fed or sleeve labels for your hot filled beverages, our labellers can handle any label format all and will make sure your product stands out from the crowd. The flexibility to match your needs The efficient Sidel Matrix roll-fed labeller, SL70, is a highly versatile system that with a unique ability to manage positive and negative spins and any bottle shape and...

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.