SMI packaging equipment for Coca-Cola Nogales

The sustainable choice of Coca-Cola Nogales In the field of beverage industry, sustainability plays an important role and mainly involves the packaging. Technological innovation plays a crucial role in helping bottling companies choose packaging solutions that reduce waste and optimize resources, as the experience of the company Bebidas Refrescanteds de Nogales (BRN) an important bottler in Mexico part of the Mexican Coca-Cola company, shows. In order to meet these needs, the company installed within the PET bottles production and bottling line a new SMI packer from the CSK 40 F ERGON series, equipped with a methane gas shrink tunnel.

The advantages of SMI solution

• packer equipped with motorized system of oscillating guides situated at the machine infeed to facilitate the channeling of loose products on the conveyor, equipped with chains made of thermoplastic material featuring low friction co-efficient;

• high efficiency motors attached directly to the drive shaft with the consequent advantage of reducing maintenance, energy waste and noise;

• compact film cutting unit, with film cutting blade driven by “direct-drive” brushless motorization which makes the cutting more precise and the maintenance easier;