Canning Solutions from KHS India’s basket
“Innovative system solutions
which protect resources and products equally” – has been KHS’s global mantra
for success in the food and beverage industry for more than 140 years.
Whether glass, PET, kegs, pouches
or cans – one can rely on KHS with the maximum quality and greatest product
protection in efficient and sustainable filling and packaging systems. Be it soft drinks (still or carbonated),
beer, sparkling wine, juice, tea, or coffee you want to fill – hot if required –
KHS canning solutions can handle them all.
Owing to the
increasing demand and the successful implementation of the Innofill DMD Filling
Systems in the territory, KHS has decided to start manufacturing it also from
the Ahmedabad facility.
Innofill DMD Can Filler
The Innofill DMD is a mechanically controlled can filling
system equipped with return gas tubes. It can fill all types of beverages into
containers of different heights and sizes, holding, between 0.1 and 1.0 liter
of the product. Whatever kind of innovative beverage the market may demand in
the future, the DMD has the potential to package it into a can – at speeds of
up to 120,000 cans per hour while adhering to exact fill levels without product
loss.
The simple press of a button on the interactive operator
terminal is all that is needed to prompt the filling system to switch over to a
new format for the next beverage and can size scheduled for processing. This is
similar to the SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies) in process industries.
This saves time, prevents errors, and boosts machine availability. Normal
format part changing is necessary only if cans with different diameters are to
be processed. This, too, is fast and simple, with no tools required.
Inspection
A tangential discharge is used to convey the cans directly to
the seamer on completion of the filling process to keep the product from
splashing out of the relatively large can mouth.
Facilities for channeling out cans are provided before the
cans are again turned upside-down in the twister. The reason for this
channel-out segment is to enable selective quality control. Entire filler
rounds are channeled out and examined from time to time. A one-to-one can to
filling valve relationship can thus be quickly pinpointed to take appropriate
corrective action at malfunctioning filling valves. Gamma rays are used to
check filling levels - an exact method of fill level checking. The cans are
sent in the “head-stand” position in the direction of the coding unit.
Any liquid residue clinging to the outside of the cans is
blown off before an inkjet printer applies a special can code. This is followed
by a second filling level check. The beverage has calmed down in the meantime
which allows greater measuring accuracy.
Feeding and conveying
of cans
Conveyors keep all the machines in a network so that the
entire line functions without glitches. Transporting cans accurately to their
destination is the task of reliable, gentle and low-noise transportation and
conveying equipment from KHS. The perfectly matched components of the Innoline
Conveyors ensure that the cans flow continuously and smoothly.
Pasteurizing and packing systems
For biological products, the cans are transported to the
Innopack Shrink Packer via the Innopas Pasteurizer, while the non-biological
products go directly into the Innopack system. The Shrink Packer is capable of producing
multi - packs of different formats like (2x2)x3 and (3x2)x2 for which the
machine is equipped with automatic film slitting, can divider and formatting
system. The packs pass through an electrically heated tunnel after wrapping of
cans with shrink film. The shrinked packs are transferred on the discharge
table of the machine for cooling and are fed to the palletizing station.
