SIPA Berchi of Veneto, Italy, a global leader of Stretch Blow Moulding Machines for the production of PET bottles, now have a comprehensive range of high performance Beverage processing and filling machinery due to the completion of the 100% acquisition of leading Italian beverage filling & packaging company Berchi.
With an installed base of 3000 plus filling machines the complete product range meets the requirements for the processing and filling of beverage products such as still & carbonated water; carbonated soft drinks; milk & dairy products; beer & alcoholic beverages; sport & energy drinks; tea and juice.
All of the filling machines can be coupled in Sincro-Bloc with SIPA’s rotary PET bottle blowmoulders, for an integrated blowing, filling and capping solution.
The range includes the following filling technologies:-
• Stillfill S — mechanical gravity filler of non-carbonated waters and juices.
• Stillfill R\HR — mechanical gravity filler with recirculation, suitable for hot-fill of products such as teas, isotonic drinks and juices.
• Isofill — mechanical isobaric level filler suitable for filling carbonated products such as soft drinks and beer.
• Isotronic — electronic isobaric volumetric filler and is suitable for the filling of soft drinks, water and clear juices.
• Unitronic — electronic volumetric gravity filler. This ‘Ultraclean’ machine is particularly suitable for filling liquids such a milk and drinking yogurts.
• Bigfill — electronic volumetric gravity filler for large containers up to 10 litres.
SIPA Berchi are represented in Oceania by HBM Plastics & Packaging Technologies.