ƒ YUBCO ƒ DICO ƒ Al-Ahlia ƒ F.A. Neptun WATER MAIN SOURCE OF More compact end-of-line systems Touchplant project

hen speaking of complete and efficient bottling and packaging lines, sustainable both from an economic and an environmental standpoint, we must necessarily start from our customers' needs when it comes to reducing energy consumption and the running and maintenance costs of production facilities. A good road to take to optimize systems and processes is that of integrating machines and systems within the bottling and packaging lines. Investments made by the SMI Group in recent years have privileged this design strategy, allowing us to implement a series of highly innovative solutions in terms of...

Egypt: Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt 18. Yemen: YUBCO & DICO 36. Yemen: Al-Ahlia Mineral Water Company 42 Ukraine: F.A. Neptun INNOVATION 56. New solutions for controlling the production line 58. Smiflexi & Smipal: increasingly compact end of line with “Packbloc Neo” 64. Smilab: “Touchplant” project INFORMATION 72. A leap in turnover: the SMI Group ranks first in Italy 74. Smipass: the access key to SMI services 76. Spare Parts & Upgrades: how to improve installed machines 78. Anuga FoodTec 2015: the International Exhibition of Food Technology Water is the main source of life, the most...

TCCBCE The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt SOFT DRINKS SECTOR The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt Group: The Coca-Cola Company Shrinkwrapper Smiflexi SK 500T INSTALLATION / TCCBCE

istory and modernity follow one another and mingle in Cairo, a city where the symbols of Egypt's ancient history can be seen at every street corner and where the reality of the pyramids, the ancient pharaohs, the sphinx or Cleopatra coexists with that of a metropolis of more than 10 million inhabitants (the largest in the Arab world and the second-largest in Africa). The historic centre of Egypt's capital has spread in all directions and has now incorporated many other neighborhoods and cities, including Giza and Heliopolis. Cairo today is a very important industrial center and is home to multinational...

Egypt: the cradle of one of the greatest civilizations of the world gypt is one of the most populous states in Africa and the Near East and the 15th most populous in the world. The vast majority of its 84 million inhabitants lives near the banks of the Nile River, INSTALLATION / TCCBCE in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers which has the only arable land in the country. The large regions of the Sahara Desert, which make up most of the Egyptian territory, are sparsely populated. This large North African state is one of the leading lights of Universal History, having been continuously inhabited...

and Lower Egypt by Narmer, first ruler of the 1st dynasty, around 3100 BC, although these events were preceded by a preparatory urban phase that lasted several centuries. In fact, thanks to recent archaeological discoveries, we now know that Egyptian civilization had existed for at least one millennium before. “Mişr”, modern Egypt's Arabic and official name, is a word of Semitic origin; in Akkadian the noun “mişru” means "border, territory"; “maşartu” means "guard, sentinel, border" and the verb “muşuru” means "to establish a border". Egypt is a country of many contrasts: if on the one hand Western...

The pyramids of Giza: one of the seven wonders of the ancient world he Giza necropolis is a cluster of ancient monuments about 8 km away from the city of Giza, on the Nile, and about 25 km away from the center of Cairo. The majestic and world-renowned pyramids at Giza soar in the middle of this archeological location. Their perfect shape was adopted by Egyptian builders not only because they worshipped the pharaohs but also for their cult of the Sun. The edges of the pyramid are said to represent the sun's rays falling on earth while the entire building would symbolize the ladder for climbing...

gypt's capital, Cairo, is the most tangible example of the charm of this nation. Its name comes from the Arabic “alQāhira” and means “the Subjugator”; the Fatimids gave this name to Cairo. After having expelled the ruling dynasty, they refounded the city in the hope that it could subjugate the Islamic world. And, indeed, history proved the Fatimids right: Cairo prevailed over events, wars and occupations, but especially over time that instead of overwhelming this city, makes it increasingly charming to our eyes. This city is located on the shore and on the island of the Nile River, in northern...

Coca-Cola invests US$ 500 million in Egypt he African continent continues to show high rates of increase in GDP. In fact, in 2013 five of the ten countries with the strongest economic growth in the world belonged to this geographical area. Even consumption appears to be growing, the boom of which is expected in 2030. Therefore, it is not a surprise to find out that the American Coca-Cola Company has decided to increase investment in Africa and the East, especially focusing on Egypt and Pakistan, i.e. two strategic markets from a sales prospects viewpoint. Despite the country's political uncertainty,...

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt in short The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt (TCCBCE) is headquartered in Cairo, in the district of Nasr City. This Egyptian company bottles and sells all the Coca-Cola branded soft drinks, which are produced in 9 packaging plants and distributed through 35 commercial warehouses equipped with more than 1,000 vehicles. The soft drink range marketed in Egypt includes, in addition to all the “Coke” variants, Fanta, Schweppes, and Dasani branded products. Egypt is one of the key markets for this US company since it is the most important one in the Arab...

The upgrading of the secondary packaging line he Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt (TCCBCE) is strongly committed to increase its production and distribution capacity to keep up with the growing demand for carbonated soft drinks. Hence the decision to upgrade their can packaging systems by purchasing a new Smiflexi SK 500T shrinkwrapper, which is an addition to the SK 600P model and related conveyor belts provided by SMI in 2004. The new SK 500T packs 0.33 L and 0.355 L aluminium cans in the 3x2 and 3x3 collations in shrink film only, at a top speed of 50+50 packs per minute in double lane...