By implementing its ECO Booster service on four of Midwest Coca-Cola’s SBO14/14 blow moulding machines, encompassing various bottle formats, Sidel has helped the bottler to make significant reductions in both the blowing pressure and the blowing ovens’ use of electricity. Across ten different bottle formats, the average reduction in blowing pressure was 45.9% (the lowest being 19.4% and the highest 50.7%). The average reduction in the ovens’ energy consumption was 22.3% (with the lowest saving being 15.7% and the highest being 38.1%).
The Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company is located in Eagan, Minnesota. The company manufactures bottles and distributes Coca-Cola products throughout much of the Midwestern area of the United States. The company naturally wanted to maximise its profitability by increasing its production efficiency and minimising its operational costs. Yet, at the same time, the company was also looking to reduce the environmental impact of its processes and that of its resource use. Midwest called in Sidel in the hope of achieving tangible cost and energy savings through a detailed overview of existing line conditions during full production.
Jim Tierney, maintenance manager of The Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company, explains: “Reduced resource use means reduced costs, which is a sustainability win-win for us. For this reason we are always looking to speak with our partners about new innovations that can help us achieve this goal. The Sidel ECO Booster is a great example of this, resulting in a significant reduction of our blowing air pressure and oven electricity use across four of our lines.”
Source: Sidel
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