Products & Innovation

Giant Combi installed in Argentina

Sidel reached another milestone in South America in 2011 by installing a high-speed Combi Eurotronica FM-c at Refres Now in Argentina. The machine fills large containers for carbonated´soft drinks (CSD) at high speed.

Solutions for filling CSD at ambient temperature in family-size PET bottles from 2-3 litre handling units are mainly demanded by markets in South America, and more recently Eastern Europe. In these regions, consumers are in search of big capacities for family consumption, driving industrial bottlers to seek highproduction capacity for large containers. Sidel’s solution to this was to develop Combi equipment with higher speeds for big containers, going beyond 36,000 bph for the 2 L format.

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