Wine and Spirits Bottling Line: Complete Packaging Solutions

Sidel expertise in wine and spirits bottling lines

With over 40 years of experience alongside the wine and spirits industry, Sidel provides complete and integrated bottling lines tailored to your needs. Our holistic approach combines packaging design, the best line concepts and advanced technologies to deliver high flexibility, full product care, superior performance and sustainability throughout the line.

Complete solutions from design to integration

Sidel’s expertise covers every step of the process — from branding and packaging design to line engineering, product flow management, end-of-line technologies and performance monitoring. Our dedicated engineering and automation teams ensure seamless integration, reliable operation and optimised efficiency.

Complete line integration
Branding & Packaging design
Line engineering
Product flow management
End-of-line technologies
Performance Solutions

Integration is the
art of pulling expertise together

At the end of the day, your strategy needs to be rolled out profitably. This is why we entrust the execution of your integration projects to multitalented, expert frontline teams and offer you freedom of choice in the contractual form of our partnership.

TECHNICAL DESIGN

Mechanical design

Detailed line design
Equipment specification, selection and integration

Control & automation systems

Network design & programming
Line updating and optimization
Complete description of operation

Human-Machine/Line Interface

HMI/HLI design
Technical maintenance, process and network control
Easy line management
Production and Logistics Automated System

PROJECT EXECUTION

Design

Scope definition
Design: mechanical, electrical & control, process, utilities, structural, drains
Detailed layouts and drawings
Equipment specifications, RFQ
Project scheduling, cost budgeting & tracking

Execution

Purchasing assistance, procurement, expediting
Bid package preparation and installation contract management
Technical integration between vendors and disciplines
Software programming: PLC, HMI, EIT

Management

Installation, start-up management & supervision
On site vendor coordination
Operation and maintenance training
Line commissioning
As-built drawings and documentation

Your packaging is
more than a container

It is a storyteller that stages the product and makes it stand out from the crowd. But every storyteller needs a great story to tell. This is where our Branding experts and Packaging designers come on stage.

BRAND STRATEGY

Current brand and competitors positioning & personality analysis
New positioning & personality definition
Tagline, tone of voice

BRAND IDENTITY

Logotype & brand icon
Color palette, typography
Corporate touchpoints creation

PACKAGING DESIGN

Product concept creation & visual identity (label, secondary packaging, cans)
Product engineering: 3D model and technical drawing
Real packaging samples (blown bottle, printed label & cans)

Engineering is about
understanding you

Because your uniqueness must be a winning asset, our engineering experts combine a thorough knowledge of your key performance factors with design flexibility to deliver you solutions answering your specific needs.

PLANT DESIGN

Plant layout & optimization
Structural, architectural & civil engineering
Mechanical & electrical engineering
Construction management
Warehouse & logistics

CONTROLS & AUTOMATION

Electrical engineering
Control panel design & manufacturing
Balanced line flow
PLC & HMI programming

PROCESS & UTILITIES

Clean & mechanical room design
Compressed air, steam, water
Waste water treatment, CIP
Heat transfer, cooling, refrigeration
Product blending / batching

PACKAGING LINE DESIGN

Production line design, relocation or conversion
Production requirement analysis, master planning
Procurement assistance, installation bid packages
Line / systems integration
Embedded engineer, site management

Maximise your
efficiency thanks to seamless product flows

During 60 years, we have developed a two-fold expertise in conveying systems: first to transport your bottles while guaranteeing their integrity whatever their design, second to optimize your line’s uptime by ensuring a smart regulation of product flows.

CONVEYING ENGINEERING

Complete solution design
Line control and automation
Definition and simulation of accumulation solutions

PRESSURELESS CONTAINER HANDLING

Mass or single-lane accumulation systems
Combining and distribution
Dividing, laning, train formation
Automatic guide adjustment system

SECONDARY PACKAGING CONVEYING

Transport, curves, inclines and declines
Magnetic roller or Low Back Pressure accumulation
Pack turners
Automatic guide adjustment system

Careful handling of
your bottles and perfect packaging

Sidel’s case packing machines, systems and add-ons provide a comprehensive response to your packing needs, however complex your products. Traditional or robotic, bottom, side or top loading, pick and place, wraparound: our range of solutions is one of the broadest on the market.

PACKING

Product collating systems

Regulated flow selection system
Product selection system

RSC case packing

Case erectors
Gantry packers and robotic arms
Flexible pick & place packer
Traditional pick & place packers
Case gluers

Wrap around blank packing

Wrap around case and tray packers
Continuous wrap around case packer

Product traceability complete solution

DE/PALLETIZING

Depalletizing

Automated high/low level depalletizer for loose containers
Robotic depalletizer for loose bottles

Palletizing

Automatic layer-by-layer palletizing
High-speed, high-level inline palletizer
High-speed single column palletizer
Flexible robotic palletizing cell
Robotic palletizers for loose bottles

Pallet handling

Transport (chain, free or motorised roller, modular belt)
Orientation tables (transfer, rotation, repartition) and shuttles
Storage: elevators, consolidation tables, stacking tables, empty pallet magazines
Pallet inspection system

INTRALOGISTICS

Automated guided vehicles

Fork over legs AGV
Counterbalanced AGV
Powered conveyor AGV

AGV supervision system

More than data
actionable information

In production as in business, time is of the essence and knowledge is power. Our audit solutions and Efficiency Improvement Tool provide you with actionable information, giving you an edge for discovering and addressing key issues in order to reach your production targets.

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT TOOL (EIT®)

Maximize awareness, increase responsiveness and optimize effectiveness! With its built-in intelligence and operational insight, EIT data acquisition and line monitoring system helps you meet your production daily challenges and bring productivity to higher levels by providing you key information to optimize analysis and decision-making.