Only a few producers of container glass additionally operate filling lines for glass bottles. Now, one of these few English producers for contract packaging jobs has five complete lines available, following a total installation time of around two years. Three lines have been planned for filling beer in bottles with a volume of 187 to 550 ml. The basic nominal output for the three beer lines is 60,000 bph for a fill volume of 275 ml. Each of the three lines features identical machinery.

• Pressant Universal depalletiser
  The bulk glass is handled by a Pressant Universal featuring a pusher for centring from four sides, and a layer centring feature below the sweep-off level.
• Linatronic empty-bottle inspector
  The new bottles are monitored in the Linatronic inspector. Only faultless bottles without any damage to the sealing surface, the base or the inner sidewall, for example, are allowed to proceed for further processing.
• Rinser-filler Bloc
  The bottles are first rinsed in the Variojet rinser and then filled in the Mecafill VKPV-CF filler. The electro-pneumatic filling system provides a pre-evacuation option for handling oxygen-sensitive beverages like beer. There is also an option for correcting the fill level after completion of the filling operation. This concept has also been designed design is also for expanding the handling programme at need: the counter-pressure filling system can handle both still and carbonated beverages.
• Checkmat FM-X inspection unit
  The Checkmat inspection unit monitors the fill level directly downstream of the filler Bloc. The system utilises X-ray technology, and can be used for foaming and non-foaming products alike.
• Sander Hansen channel pasteuriser
  Depending on the product and the shelf-life requirements involved, the containers are heated up in the pasteuriser prior to labelling, so that the product concerned achieves the specified shelf-life gently and reliably.
• Multimodul labeller
  The modularised design concept means that when the labelling process is changed the labelling station not required is decoupled and another station is used instead. This simplifies change-overs cold-glue and hotmelt labelling.
• Checkmat FM-X inspection unit for fine-monitoring the fill level
  After being pasteurised and labelled, the bottles are fine-monitored for fill level.
• Accutower and Accutable buffering systems
  These two dynamic buffering systems create accumulation space between the individual components of the line, so that relatively short interruptions to production can be smoothed over. The systems excel in terms of their minimised space requirement and their flexible buffering performance, and operate stringently on the first-in-first-out principle.
• Variopac, Wrapapac packers
  Depending on the requirement profile involved for each individual product, the lines can create shrink-packs with or without trays or pack the products in wrap-around cartons.
• Variocart carton erector and Blitzpac packer
  A prefabricated carton is erected in the Variocart carton erector and then passed to a Blitzpac packer.
• SynCo transport systems for the containers, MultiCo conveyors for the packs, and Palco systems for transporting the pallets
• Pressant Universal palletiser
  Once they have been assembled on a grouping station, the layers are picked up successively and deposited on the pallet.