On October 2 in Brussels (Belgium), the international jury for Pentawards 2009, a worldwide competition dedicated to packaging creativity, recognised the Sidel Packaging Design department for its PET beer bottle.
Sidel has joined NAPCOR (National Association for PET Container Resources), which is the trade association of the PET plastic industry in the United States and Canada.
A complete new Sidel beer line including filler, crown feeder, crowner, labeller, pasteuriser, accumulation tables and end of line is running at Drinktec 2009 in Munich.
Since April 2009, the 5,000th blow molder sold by Sidel has been making PET beer bottles at one of the leaders on the world beer market, Anheuser-Busch InBev
The Sidel Group will present state-of-the-art technologies and services, innovative solutions with a booth of more than 4,000 m2 at drinktec 2009.
By creating the Engineering & Conveying business unit, Sidel is forcefully responding to the demand expressed by its customers, who have been focused on the optimisation of existing bottling lines.
Coca-Cola Bottling System has benefited from the expertise of Sidel’s worldwide network for the manufacture of approximately 2,000 blow molds for its new On-the-Go bottle.
Stimulating the sensitive drinks market by making it easier to package products in PET bottles is the goal of a new service offered by Sidel.
In addition to the existing Veloce filler based on mechanical filling valve technology, Sidel is rounding out its offering with the Veloce FM, a filler with an electronic flow meter filling valve.
The innovative dry preform decontamination system in Sidel's Combi line achieves ESL at lower cost, higher efficiency compared with conventional methods for US based Byrne Dairy.