Another revolution in beer packaging machinery

In recent years, China's beer industry has experienced unprecedented rapid development, and its growth has won widespread attention from the global industry. According to relevant industry statistics, China's beer production in 2005 was 30.615 million kiloliters, an increase of 5.21%% over the previous year (the growth rate announced by the National Bureau of Statistics was 10.30%%). The rapid development of the beer industry puts forward new and higher requirements for beer packaging machinery and calls for domestic beer packaging machinery manufacturers to constantly increase scientific research and develop more advanced technologies and products to meet the growing demand for equipment. At present, the most commonly used beer packaging is glass bottles, but this method has many defects, such as: easy to burst bottles, high transportation costs, fewer bottle types, environmental pollution, too much energy consumption, especially for glass bottles filling beer The explosive global problem that plagued the beer industry, the use of new materials to package beer has become the focus of the industry in recent years.

Compared with the traditional glass bottle packaging, PET bottles have the advantages of light weight, high strength, good toughness, not easily broken, easy to transport and low cost, easy to make into a variety of specifications and shapes, etc., have been industrialized in foreign countries, mainly used for Middle and high grade beer packaging. For consumers, PET bottled beer is suitable for carrying without accidental injury such as explosion. The foreign PET beer packaging market has achieved great development in recent years. In particular, the European market has accounted for 15 to 20% of the entire beer market. The PET beer packaging market is accelerating, and the beer market at home and abroad is on the move. PET bottle packaging beer new era!

As the largest professional manufacturer of PET bottles in China, Zhuhai Zhongfu has been watching the industrialization of international PET beer bottles. It began to be deployed and entered this field in the 1990s, preparing for the industrialization of PET beer bottles in China. Breakthroughs have been made. At the same time, as the leading supplier of PET bottle packaging machinery industry in China, Jiangsu Xinmeixing has established the PET bottle beer filling equipment research and development in the industry based on its mature PET medium temperature filling and PET aseptic cold filling technology. The team is aiming at the most advanced PET bottle filling technology in the world and is determined to provide excellent equipment and perfect services for numerous beer manufacturers. For more than a year, the Xinmeixing R&D team has conducted more than thirty tests, has overcome dozens of technical difficulties, and in particular solved the problem of how filling equipment can reduce the amount of oxygen, and launched China's first mature beer PET. Bottle filling equipment. It is believed that in the near future, as the packaging material cost of PET beer bottles will continue to decrease, and the corresponding filling technology and technology will be further improved, PET bottle packaging will have great room for development in the beer industry in China, and eventually Beyond glass packaging.

Jiangsu Xinmeixing's PET bottle long tube filling equipment has the following characteristics:

One is a long tube instead of a short tube. As the glass bottle can be used in the form of secondary vacuum and secondary air displacement, the air content in the bottle can be minimized, thus ensuring the minimum oxygen content of the beer. However, PET bottles cannot be evacuated, but they must ensure that the amount of oxygen is at a minimum. For this reason, Jiangsu Xinmeixing and Ningbo Xiang Ling jointly developed long-tube filling valves. The valve first fully replaces the air in the bottle with high-purity CO2, and the air in the bottle is discharged from the top to the bottom. When filling, the beer is filled from the filling long tube to the bottom of the bottle, greatly reducing the beer. The contact area with the gas keeps the contact between the beer and the gas at the liquid level within the inner diameter of the bottle, until the bottle mouth, and then undergoes foam defoaming to eliminate the bottleneck air. Therefore, the opportunity for the air to dissolve in the beer is greatly reduced. In order to achieve the goal of minimum oxygenation.

The second is the use of lifting nozzles to clean PET bottles. Considering the large-capacity beer filling, the bottle washing machine of Jiangsu Xinmeixing uses a movable nozzle to lift the PET beer bottle and flushes the sterile water through the vertical movement of the lifting nozzle, so that each part of the bottle interior is Thoroughly cleansed, and with the United States imported high-efficiency spray nozzles, the jetting time and jet stroke can be adjusted. This lifting and squirting mechanism can not only fully clean the interior of the PET beer bottle, but also can save the water consumption of the bottle, save production costs for the production enterprise, and meet the requirements of creating a conservation-oriented society.

The third method is to use a full stainless steel bottle clip to convey the bottle. Considering the diversification of many beer manufacturers' bottle types, in order to reduce the replacement and adjustment time of the changed parts, Jiangsu Xinmeixing adopts the technology of direct connection of the wind conveyor and the pinwheel on the PET bottle beer filling machine. The bottle-placing wheel adopts an innovative bottle-neck clamping mechanism with a bottle-dividing function. The bottle shape can be changed under the premise of constant PET bottle diameter, without any change of parts, saving the adjustment time for different bottle types of conversion. At the same time, the bottle transmission process of the equipment also uses the form of the bottle-neck steel clips. When the bottle type changes, no parts need to be adjusted. This innovative design has enabled the production efficiency of the entire PET bottle production line to be further improved, saving manufacturing costs for beer production companies and creating greater profit margins.

The fourth is to use CO2 to fully replace the air in the PET bottle. While using the long vial filling method to reduce the contact area between the beer and the gas in the bottle, Jiangsu Xinmeixing uses CO2 to fully replace the air in the bottle, which makes the concentration of CO2 in the PET bottle reach over 95%%. The amount of oxygen can be controlled at 0.1mg/l or less when filling the tube. At the same time, hot water foaming and CO2 purging bottleneck air are used between filling and capping to reduce the bottleneck air content once again, making it possible for PET bottle beer to ensure that the oxygen content in the bottle complies with national standards.

Jiangsu Xinmeixing has made technological innovations in the PET beer filling equipment through the above methods, making it possible for PET bottles to be filled with beer, enabling the beer bottle shelf life of PET bottles to meet the requirements of the production process and quality indicators. Jiangsu Xinmeixing Beer PET filling technology has made up for the defects in beer glass bottle packaging, opened a new chapter for the development of the beer industry and opened a new era of beer PET bottle filling! (India)

Source: Consumer Daily