24 October 2006 – Sidel, the equipment supplier for beverage packaging, is installing its largest ever order, which includes 20 complete PET bottling lines, to Ting Hsin, China’s giant food company.
The Chinese company is aiming to capitalise on the country’s bottled water market, which has an annual growth rate of over 11%.
Scheduled to go into production in December, the Combi 20 machines ordered by Ting Hsin to package 0.6 litre bottles of mineral water will have a combined output of 36,000 bottles per hour (bph).
The order also included a hot filling line with an output of 9,100bph – the filler was from Simonazzi, the conveyor from Gebo. In addition, three SBO Universal 20 HR blowing machines were ordered. These will be used to package tea into 0.5 litre PET bottles at a rate of 26,000bph.
