A mineral water bottling plant in Warburg, Germany will start using the InnoPET Blomax stretch blow-moulder from packaging systems manufacturer KHS this month.
The bottler, Germete, fills in and sells over 340 million litres of mineral water and soft drinks every year.
It now operates a total of three turnkey PET lines and two glass lines from KHS, and the InnoPET Blomax is the fifth stretch blow moulder the company has procured for the production of its PET bottles.
The company values sustainable production and the efficient use of resources such as energy and packaging materials.
New, lower-weight bottles have now been designed and produced for this purpose.
Furthermore, the new InnoPET Blomax is equipped with both an optimized NIR (near infrared) heater and an air recycling system, enabling only around 65 per cent of the energy required to date to blow the PET bottles having to be used for the same production quantities.
The stretch blow moulders already in production at the plant have also been fitted with the AirbackPlus air recycling system.
