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Refresco France, PepsiCo France and Sidel jointly receive award for efficient and clean technology

Sidel introduces first Crown Feeder without compressed air

Eurostar EV: The Natural Evolution of a Legend

New Pressure-Sensitive-Labeling (PSL) Unit for Beer: A Sidel Original

Sidel Focuses on Beer Bottling Innovations at Brau Beviale 2011

Sidel is delivering its Biggest Combi Machine for CSD

Sidel just reached another milestone in South America by selling its third very high speed Combi Eurotronica FM-c ever made worldwide to Refres Now, in Argentina. The machine fills large containers for carbonated soft drinks (CSD) at high speed. Assembled in Parma (Italy), the giant among the Combi machines left the plant in late July to be shipped to Argentina. Two other large Combi machines are currently being installed at sites in Brazil.

Increasing Flexibility and Reliability in Complete Line Solutions

Sidel, one of the leading complete bottling line suppliers, will demonstrate its capabilities at Pack Expo 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada at booth C-329 from September 26-28, 2011. Sidel will highlight its flexibility and reliability in consumer packaging, labeling, engineering and material handling and shrinkwrapping.

South African Breweries awarded Sidel “Supplier of the Year”

Sidel India is celebrating this year, the 10th anniversary of the Chakan manufacturing plant* near Pune, in the South of India.

Sidel expands its range of hot fillers for beverages with particles

Sidel inaugurates its new training lab in Beijing

Sidel brings the same level of performance to low-level palletizers with its new SP 1000 HS palletizer

Sidel presents new technology to cut spotless roll-fed labels

Sidel sells its 50th Combi Predis™ to the co-packer Sokpol Poland

Operational Team Assessments for Customized Training Programs

One-Stop Line Conversion Service Enhances Bottlers’ Market Responsiveness

Flexible packaging solutions for all products, shapes and sizes

Sidel at Interpack 2011: increased flexibility and reliability at each step of the bottling process

A New Generation of Versatile Net-Weight Fillers

Sidel supplies the first three bottling lines and innovative software for the world's biggest automated factory.

Sidel inaugurates its new training lab in Parma (Italy)

Sidel launches its new single-file accumulation solution: a flexible and ergonomic system for all types of applications.

Carlsberg UK invested on this break-through technology. Goal: Optimizing final product quality while minimizing consumption up to 25%.

The latest Sidel machine for self-adhesive and cold-glue labels meets customers’ needs for flexibility, high-performances and easy maintenance.

Sidel is introducing the ALS guide for air conveyors: an automatic adjustment system for side guides, ensuring greater flexibility during format changeovers.

The Rollsleeve labeler combines the simplicity of its consolidated roll-fed group, resulting in highly customized container labeling, with the advantage of label film cost reduction.

With Modulomold™, Sidel is presenting a simple solution that makes it easier to change bottle shapes of the same size, for greater production flexibility.

Lighter than an extruded HDPE bottle for the same level of functionality, the SafeSense™ HDPE bottle made by ISBM also offers equivalent capping quality to PET, without a sealing lid. This is a real alternative for the fresh milk market.

This PET bottle for still water offers the best in user comfort for an ultra-lightweight package – less than 10g for a 500-ml bottle – thanks to its reinforced foundation using the overstroke base technology.

Sidel is launching FreeShape™, the first PET bottle that can be used for the packaging of sensitive beverages aseptically or by hot fill with a single shape. How? It’s all thanks to the overstroke base technology.

Ideal for water and oil, the DeepGrip™ large-format PET bottle has a deep grip that makes it easier to use. With no external handle, this grip is blow-molded using the punching-conforming technology.

Lower environmental footprint and production costs: these are the benefits offered by SBO Universal2 Eco blow molders, thanks to optimization of the oven configuration.

Sidel has just obtained final technical acceptance of the first aseptic PET complete line in Germany, equipped with a Combi Predis™ for dry decontamination of preforms. Since June, the line has been up and running at the Hauser plant for flavored teas in lightweight 0.5 and 1.5 liter bottles.

Sidel strengthens its presence in Southern Africa

The Sidel Group created its own subsidiary in South Africa to better serve its customers from the Southern part of the African continent. The inaugural conference of Sidel South Africa will take place on October 12.

Chicago, USA, October 31 - November 3

ECO Audit™: The ECO Services family gets bigger

Bottle Switch™: Less than a minute to change a mold

At Brau Beviale 2010 (Nurnberg, Germany, November 10 - 12), the latest innovations from the Sidel Group, dedicated to the world of beer, for all packaging types

The Sidel Group gets HPR (Highly Protected Risk) certification for its Beijing (China) site

New range Aidlin Eco: the cap feeder that consumes 10 times less electricity

Dusseldorf, Germany, October 27 – November 3

Two minutes less of weekly maintenance per mold: that’s what Sidel has accomplished with Kohlox™, the new, self-lubricating composite material for studs and wear rings.

Less than 19 grams for 0.5 L: Sidel beats the world record for the lightweighting of hot-fillable PET bottles and designs innovative shapes thanks to the development of new technical solutions. Discover the new models Skyward™ and Curvy™.

On October 2 in Brussels (Belgium), the international jury for Pentawards 2009, a worldwide competition dedicated to packaging creativity, recognized the Sidel Packaging Design department for its PET beer bottle.

Sidel is conscious of the environmental challenges faced by the beverage packaging industry and wants to be actively involved in environmental initiatives. For these reasons, Sidel has joined NAPCOR (National Association for PET Container Resources), which is the trade association of the PET plastic industry in the United States and Canada.

For the first time, a dairy company is launching a PET bottle for UHT milk using Sidel’s Predis™ dry decontamination technology. The technology has allowed LSDH (France) to reduce the weight of its bottles by 20 percent as well as making drastic savings in chemicals and waters. Operations just started in summer 2009.

At Drinktec, Sidel is launching the SBO Universal™2 range, which accelerates industrial blow molder outputs by 10% - reaching 2,000 bottles per hour per mold – while also decreasing energy consumption by 10% in the ovens. The result is the possibility of blowing bottles from recycled PET.

To bring its customers up to date on the latest technology developments and efficient line management, Sidel is expanding the training facilities at its North America Zone headquarters in Atlanta. Already home to a Packaging & Tooling Center with a pilot plant, laboratory and classroom facilities, the area provides an additional 4,800 square feet area for hands-on training in life cycle management and equipment demonstration.

With AQ-HC (High Capacity), Sidel is revolutionizing accumulation principles for all production conditions and for high output rates.

A complete new Sidel beer line including filler, crown feeder, crowner, labeller, pasteurizer, accumulation tables and end of line will be running at Drinktec 2009 in Munich. Sidel will demonstrate its latest technology which is characterized by environmental sustainability, great flexibility and optimum cost efficiency in terms of production and layout. Visitors to the world’s most important show for the bottling sector will be able to see Sidel’s beer line in continuous operation at low speed, and peaks of a few minutes of high speed once every hour.

ECO EIT™ and ECO Booster™: Sidel is launching its first ECO Services to respond to bottlers’ and bottle manufacturers’ economic and environmental concerns.

Dry decontamination of preforms and caps, filtration of the blowing and conveying air and aerolic protection of the filling/capping enclosure: Sidel is now adapting these hygiene improvement solutions to the existing configuration of bottling lines and to the production environment.

Since April 2009, the 5,000^th blow molder sold by Sidel has been making PET beer bottles at one of the leaders on the world beer market, Anheuser-Busch InBev. With 5,000 blow molders installed since the 1980s, or about one-half of total machines worldwide, Sidel has beaten all the records.

With a booth of more than 4,000 m2 (approximately 43,000 square feet) at drinktec 2009, the Sidel Group will present state-of-the-art technologies and services, innovative solutions designed to meet customers’ current requirements in terms of cost and productivity and a responsible approach to the environment.

Predis™, Sidel’s patented dry preform decontamination system initially used for beverages distributed in the cold chain, can now also be used for products sold at ambient temperature. Dry technology for aseptic filling of sensitive products promises to be a major break with the past.

By creating the “Engineering & Conveying” business unit, Sidel is forcefully responding to the demand expressed by its customers, who since the start of the global economic crisis, have been focused on the optimization of existing bottling lines, rather than investment in new production capacity.

Coca-Cola Bottling System has benefited from the expertise of Sidel’s worldwide network for the manufacture of approximately 2,000 blow molds for its new On-the-Go bottle. With the 2008 opening of two new Packaging and Tooling Centers (PTC) in Guadalajara (Mexico) and Beijing (China) in 2008, Sidel has enhanced its local service capability and its customer proximity for new packaging development and blow mold manufacture.

Stimulating the sensitive drinks market by making it easier to package products in PET bottles: this is the goal for a new service offered by Sidel. The Group is assisting its customers in choosing the most suitable PET material and package shape for their beverages.