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March-April 2022 | www.packagingnews.com.au | BEVERAGE PACKAGING
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PACKAGING RELOCATION
For the packaging line reloca- tion, the project scope included the mechanical and electrical dis- connection, disassembly, removal, packing and transport of equipment and services currently installed and operational at the Moorabbin site, followed by the assembly and rein- stallation of the same equipment to the site at Heatherton.
Packaging equipment relocated included:
• the washer/ filler/ capper, capable
of washing and filling up to 20 bot-
tles per minute;
• empty bottle inspection and con-
veying system including decapping, vapour sniffer/leak detection and light inspection units on the infeed of the washer and a date coder at the outfeed of the filler/capper; and
• stillage unloading and loading robotic system that automatically unloads 16 containers simultane- ously ready for washing then once filled and capped, is automatically reloaded into the stillage.
Services connections were installed for product water, potable water, hot water, compressed air, and steam/ condensate. Additionally, there were numerous production related items
FAR LEFT: The Neverfail packaging line at Heatherton bottles spring water in 15-litre returnable bulk water containers.
LEFT: Covid hurdles had to be jumped for both the processing and packaging line relocation.
including operator work benches, including sinks and walkovers.
“For this line, there was also a very short window to execute the relocation, from 28 December to the 13 January,” Gilbert says, noting that once again, Covid hurdles had to be jumped. “The disconnection team had to be replaced with a new team for the reconnection process. Essential crew were absent due to contacting Covid – at one point 13 welders were absent at the same time.”
Gilbert says that despite the chal- lenges, the team pulled out all the stops to ensure installation proceeded and met the project timeline. Today, the Neverfail line is up and running at Heatherton, bottling spring water for nationwidedistribution. ■
See Process Partners at AUSPACK 2022 on stand E244.