SOLUTIONS FOR FRUIT YOGHURT WORLD'S FIRST COMBI FOR PACKAGING PRODUCTS WITH FRUIT PIECES RUNNING IN in Russia is running a new PET bottling line for the brand equipped with Combi Predis™

Groupe Danone is a World’s first for dairy Adapting global products French food-products products with fruit pieces to local cultures multinational corporation. Besides various brands At the Danone plant in Chekhov, The French group has recently of , the company about 40 kilometres (or 25 miles) enjoyed growth of between 20 - 25% also owns several south of Moscow, a bottling line per year on the Russian market. The internationally known equipped with the world’s first recipe for this success was adapting brands of water Combi Predis™ for dairy products global products: Danissimo, Activia, with fruit pieces is running 24 hours and Danacol yogurts - to each day, seven days a week, at a local cultures changing them each speed of 36,000 bph for the Activia time to meet Russian expectations. brand. Guy de Saint-Méloir, Danone makes its foods in Danone project manager, explains: flavours that appeal to local tastes, “Because of the integrated using such fruits as pomegranate, manufacture of our bottles as well blackberry, and prickly as the switch from HDPE to PET, pear. Activia Kefirnaya, which is we have secured major savings in made at the Togliati plant, is based both production and the cost of raw on the traditional fermented-milk materials.” drink, .

sidel.com/LDP From HDPE to PET with the Combi HIGHLIGHTS Predis™ To benefit from the growth of the dairy products  Bottling line equipped with the world’s first market (+14% per year), Danone has made substantial investments. The group expanded its Combi Predis™ (Hema GWm 20/48/20K) capacity enlarging the Chekhov site and installing lines to increase dairy products - the objective for dairy products with fruit being to carry on increasing market share.  Design of bottle by Sidel team including Danone then switched from HDPE to PET for its key product, Activia. “This led to significant process tests, validation and logistics tests savings and therefore to a quick return on investment,” states Guy de Saint-Méloir. The set-  Significant savings and a quick return on up includes a line equipped with the Combi investment when switching to PET Predis™ Hema GWm 20/48/20K. Danone’s Beverage Division knows Sidel well and found its Predis™ technology particularly appealing.

Four to five product changeovers per day “Disinfecting preforms with hydrogen peroxide reduces our water use and helps save space,” says Guy de Saint-Méloir. Another feature is the dosing precision offered by the GWm net weight filler: the difficulty arises because of the size of the fruit cubes (about 7 mm) being added to a viscous product. “We would like to use larger fruit pieces, but the goal is to avoid plugging the nozzles and to ensure consistent bottle weight.” Another challenge was ensuring the flexibility of the machines, which twice a week have to package each of the 15 products that Danone markets in the country. The products have different viscosities, bottle sizes and compositions and switching often requires a change of mould and end-of-line equipment - as well as cleaning. The required flexibility is provided by the Combi, without loss of productivity. The bottle was created by the Sidel design department: design, marketing mould, process tests and validation, logistics tests and creation of a sleeker, more “feminine” shape with a narrow “waist” for easier gripping. The HDPE bottle will also adopt this new shape, which is the product’s new identity.

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