Água Monchique and SIPA innovate together
Portuguese mineral water supplier Água Monchique has called on SIPA in its bid to bring new levels of innovation...
SINCRO BLOC R
Integrated Rotary Blowing / Filling / Capping System
Sincro Bloc is a compact integrated rotary system for high speed rotary blowing/filling/capping. The system guarantees high quality standard and output up to 54,000 bottles/hour.
These systems combines the highest output today in the market with the maximum container quality keeping reduced footprint, simplicity and hygiene.
All these features and advantages make Sincro Bloc one of the best solutions both in terms of capex and as a guarantee of general TCO reduction.
Highlights:
- Costs reduction:
- Reduced operators number.
- Reduced consumption.
- No air conveyors: less energy consumption and no filter costs
- No rinser: less water and energy consumption.
- Elimination of maintenance costs and change over times for the air conveyors.
- Ideal solution for lightweight bottles.
- Hygiene: a preform treatment system, the short connection between blowing and filling,
- the over-pressured environment are guarantee of high hygiene level.
- Extreme operating flexibility: wide range of bottles, necks and caps sizes. one of the fastest change-over available today on the market!
- Space saving and ergonomics: extreme compactness. Only one operator controls the whole system.
SINCRO BLOC R
Integrated blowing -filling solutions for carbonated soft drinks and mineral water. Integration of our Blower SFR EVO 3 with the new Flextronic, the volumetric electronic isobaric filler. Multiproduct solutions extremely flexible with the best in class hygene level and quick-changeover for different neck and bottle size.
Process steps: main features and advantages
- Flexibility. With a simple conversion, the same unit can produce standard and hot fill containers.
- Higher outputs: 2,250 bottle per hour per cavity.
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- Electrically-driven stretching rods provide extra versatility in process fine-tuning and an easy control of timing, speed, acceleration and distance.
- Quick mold change-over system: very easy and fast.
- Several solutions to control preform hygiene.
- Heating oven with laminar ventilation and low consumption.
Transfer module is composed of transfer starwheels with grippers which transport the bottles by the neck to the filling monobloc.
- Extreme reliability: no hitches.
- Great flexibility: it can handle bottles of all shapes.
- Body guides are no longer necessary meaning a drastic reduction in change-over downtimes.
- Stainless steel fully draining basement and surrounded by protections to assure bottle hygiene.
- Overpressure system: the separation between the dry zone air (blowmolder) and wet zone air (filler) is assured.
- Quick change-over system which allows the handling of different diameter necks without the need for any tools.
- Bottle base cooling available on request.
- Modular solutions, with the possibility to fill several products in the same filling line.
- The complete range of fillers can be matched with the rotary blowmolder: isobaric fillers, gravity fillers and hot fillers, both mechanical level and electronic volumetric versions, including the weight filling solution
- The fillers in the Flextronic range can be configured in Xfill version: this means that the carbonating or mixing unit tank will be used as a buffer tank for the filler, which no longer has the product tank on board.
- Innovative and quick-change-over system
- Hygiene
- Overpressure sterile air cabins with contamination control equipped with HEPA filters.
- The transfer module and filler are pre-set for CIP/COP/SIP operations: a guarantee of the highest hygiene standards.
- Solutions for the contamination reduction of preforms and caps.
- Filling area protected by a Mini-Enclosure (isolator technology) for sensitive product handling.
Depending on the different operating conditions, we have designed different solutions:
Capstream
It is a gravitational cap feeding system designed to guarantee the highest efficiency of the Sincro Bloc versions, according to the most advanced state-of-the-art.
The caps arrive already oriented to the top of the feeder and descent by simple gravity to cap chutes, without compressed air (clean feeding).
Twin/single Hopper
The Twin Hopper is composed of two cap hoppers and relevant descent channel to the pick and place. In the event of a blockage on the first, the system passes automatically to the second, allowing the operator to remove the blockage without stopping the capping operations until the machine is empty.
When using a single type of cap the single hopper with reverse-rotation solution is available.
Flat Buffer
This is a dynamic buffer, positioned between the hopper and the pick and place,
and is composed of an horizontal rotating disk where a sufficient number of oriented caps is hold to guarantee an accumulation that allows the operator to clear the blockage and completely empty the system.
Capstream
It is a gravitational cap feeding system designed to guarantee the highest efficiency of the Sincro Bloc versions, according to the most advanced state-of-the-art.
The caps arrive already oriented to the top of the feeder and descent by simple gravity to cap chutes, without compressed air (clean feeding).
Twin/single Hopper
The Twin Hopper is composed of two cap hoppers and relevant descent channel to the pick and place. In the event of a blockage on the first, the system passes automatically to the second, allowing the operator to remove the blockage without stopping the capping operations until the machine is empty.
When using a single type of cap the single hopper with reverse-rotation solution is available.
Flat Buffer
This is a dynamic buffer, positioned between the hopper and the pick and place,
and is composed of an horizontal rotating disk where a sufficient number of oriented caps is hold to guarantee an accumulation that allows the operator to clear the blockage and completely empty the system.
Applications
The innovative features of Sipa blowers and fillers, combined with the high level of hygiene typical of Sincro Bloc systems, make thissolution perfectly suitable for most products: still or carbonated beverages, cold or hot filled sensitive products with or without pulps(including CSD without preservatives) as well as premium products requiring weight filling.
Production range
| APPLICATION | FILLING TECHNOLOGY | OUTPUT (Min-Max) |
|---|---|---|
| Still water | Gravity filling | 6,000 – 54,000 |
| Carbonated water | Isobaric filling | 6,000 – 54,000 |
| CSD | Isobaric filling | 6,000 – 54,00 0 |
| Fruit juices | Gravity cold and hot filling | 6,000 – 43,800 |
| Isotonics | Gravity cold and hot filling | 6,000 – 43,800 |
| Tea | Gravity cold and hot filling | 6,000 – 43,800 |
| Edible oil | Weight filling | 7,500 – 30,000 |
