solutions for the wine, champagne, and spirits industry

SOLUTIONS FOR THE
WINE, CHAMPAGNE, AND SPIRITS INDUSTRY
SOLUTIONS FOR THE
WINE, CHAMPAGNE, AND SPIRITS INDUSTRY
”you care for the content.
we care for the filling and packaging.“
As flexible as your products:
Solutions for tomorrow‘s markets
We don‘t know which direction the development of your product range will be taking but
in any case, we will make sure that you have
optimum filling and packing processes. It makes
no difference if your products are to be packed
or filled in bottles, jars, kegs, or other types of
container.
The company KHS
The roots of KHS date back primarily to the
foundation of Holstein & Kappert GmbH in
Dortmund, Germany in 1868 and Seitz-Werke in
Bad Kreuznach in 1886. Today, KHS is a manufacturer of filling and packing systems with one
of the highest levels of performance and sales
worldwide. With its more than 4,000 employees working in 14 production sites, KHS delivers
complete systems and attractive individual solutions to 130 countries around the globe. KHS
is a partner you can rely on. A company that
understands the requirements of customers
and, based on long-standing experience, offers
the best prerequisites for ensuring your market
success for the future.
Success right down the line
Whether individual machines or entire lines,
KHS offers the right solution to every filling
and packing need while keeping its attention
focused on customer satisfaction. We are thus
able to achieve more than you expect, and with
our extensive product portfolio, we also ensure
maximum efficiency at your production plant.
As a supplier of complete systems and individual machines, KHS brings its full core competence to bear throughout the entire beverage
industry. Filling systems such as the KHS Innofill®
NRF-OFE for still wines and spirits or the KHS
Innofill® DNRT for effervescent wines optimally
tailored to customer requirements are compelling throughout the trade. Thanks to special filling systems and innovative, patented developments of international acclaim, our solutions are
trendsetters in the beverage industry and are
the systems of choice when it comes to filling
and packing wine, champagne, and spirits. With
KHS, you are well prepared for all future trends.
Whether Prosecco in a new bottle shape, wine
bottled in PET, or whatever tomorrow‘s international markets demand. Our systems are already
in operation filling effervescent wines like Prosecco in cans and racking fruity wines in kegs
for the restaurant trade. PET bottle processing
has already arrived on the scene in the spirits
industry where KHS machines are in successful
operation.
Pioneer in the field of wine filtration
Because Seitz-Werke is considered the inventor
of wine filtration, KHS has traditionally close
ties with the wine sector as reflected not only
by the numerous complete systems installed to
date but also in the many international publications from our laboratory specialists focused
on technological process improvements. KHS
also participated in the cooperative laboratory
tests initiated by the German Oenologists Asso-
ciation (BDO) right from the beginning and for
many years has maintained close cooperation
with various viticulture educational facilities and
professional trade institutions by providing consultants regularly.
Revolutionary development especially for
the spirits trade
The spirits trade boasts a variety of high-quality
products and a wide range of different bottle
shapes and sizes. Spirits must be bottled so that
there is neither loss of product due to overfilling
nor a loss of alcohol or flavor. More than 40 years
ago, KHS was the first company in the world to
introduce a mechanical measurement bottling
system exactly matched to the requirements of
the spirits industry that today is considered the
forerunner of the inductive flowmetering-based
principle of volumetric filling. In the 1970s, KHS
brought another revolutionary development to
the spirits market by launching its universal filling valve that simplified considerably the handling of various bottle mouth sizes.
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Changing wine, champagne,
and spirits market
The spirits market continues to be an
attractive value added category thanks to
classical products such as clear schnapps,
liqueurs, and brandies in addition to marketing concepts tailored to the market.
The market orients itself more and more
towards exporting. Internationally famous
brands like Jägermeister boast two-digit
yearly growth rates in the U.S. market.
Prerequisite for this is that producers
adapt to more and more individual consumer needs and satisfy these needs by
offering the right products.
In order to meet these requirements,
winegrowers and wineries are converting
more and more to ultra-modern bottling
and packing technologies according to
the motto ”tradition meets future“. The
champagne market in contrast is stagnating and has suffered from extremely
tough price wars and predatory competition. For most champagne producers it is
therefore not a matter of concentrating
on seasonal business such as Christmas
and New Year, but rather stimulating an
increased desire for traditional sparkling
wines through new marketing ideas.
In a growing wine sector, German wines
have gained noticeably and are enjoying
an ever-increasing popularity internationally. The trend is towards fresh, fruity, and
rather low-acidity white wines.
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PUTTING PREMIUM BEVERAGES IN THE LEAD
WITH TECHNOLOGY FROM KHS
From single machines to complete
KHS solutions
Proven, economically feasible machines and
process engineering and numerous innovations,
have enabled KHS to also achieve an outstanding position in the wine, champagne, and
spirits bottling market in the last few years. KHS
has been able to maintain this position based on
its extensive know-how in fields ranging from
process engineering to cleaning/sterilizing, to
bottling, and up to labeling, packing, and palletizing.
The intensive cooperation with leading research
facilities and the knowledge gained from this
work has enabled KHS strengthen and consolidate its position in the market even further. The
breadth of these solutions proven in the trade
ranges from single machines to turnkey production lines. These solutions are based on cuttingedge process engineering and a holistic
approach to system planning.
’ Plant planning
’ Process engineering
’ Rinsing
’ Filling
’ Capping/corking/crowning
’ Labeling
’ Packing
’ Palletizing
’ Inspection technology
’ Keg processing
Plant planning
Planning and implementing complete lines for
all branches of industry tailored to individual
requirements is one of KHS‘ strong points. Experience, competence, and product and process
know-how all combined to form a perfect
whole. We develop solutions with top results
and implement these results in practice in a
technically and economically convincing way.
All this with maximum system availability, highest possible efficiency, and an optimum cost/
benefit ratio. Correct buffer capacities between
the machines and optimum line control are key
prerequisites for maximum functionality.
Process engineering
We develop tailored process solutions for you
based on your individual requirements and prevailing local conditions. Our core competencies
are in the areas of filtration, pasteurizing, and
blending. The successful KHS Innopro ® concept
begins with product production and extends up
to compact systems including process integration and visualization. The advantage: Holistic
process competence without interface problems
from only one point of contact.
Rinsing
KHS cleaning technology offers the right solution for every problem and every task in the
wine, champagne, and spirits sector to ensure
maximum product safety. KHS rinsers are able
to wash both glass and PET bottles, can be indi-
vidually designed to include 1 to 3 channels, and
are controlled both mechanically as well as electronically. Steam, peracetic acid, chlorine dioxide, or ozone can be used to sterilize bottles.
The spirits industry uses primarily single-channel
rinsing systems that blow out new glass bottles
with air or use the product itself for rinsing.
Depending on the task definition, double-channel rinsing systems are also used occasionally
that offer facilities for both options.
Filling
With its innovative KHS Innofill® NRF-OFE balanced-pressure filling system for still wines and
spirits and its KHS Innofill® DNRT for additionally effervescent wines, KHS offers absolute
future-safe solutions. The high flexibility and the
fast changeover capabilities of these systems
also stand for maximum economy. Above all in
the spirits industry, the trend in the last few
years has been away from vacuum filling and
towards balanced-pressure filling systems that
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WINE, CHAMPAGNE, AND SPIRITS INDUSTRY
outstandingly retain the flavor and the alcohol
content of spirits. The electropneumatic KHS
Innofill® NRF-OFE normal pressure filling system
stands for top filling quality. Using the bottomup method of filling with long filling tubes, spirits are bottled in the gentlest possible way.
There is no foaming and virtually no oxygen
pickup. With the KHS Innofill® NRF-OFE, the fill
level for changing bottle types can be switched
at the push of a button. These developments
underline KHS‘ leading technological position.
Capping, corking, crowning
KHS also relies on holistic solutions when it
comes to capping, corking, and crowning.
Regardless if metal screw caps, natural corks, or
synthetic corks. Natural cork corkers offer
exceptionally high corking quality and reliability
when processing natural corks, compressed
corks, and synthetic corks. The high product
quality in conjunction with natural corks is
ensured by various accessories such as vacuum
facilities, electrical cork heaters, and cork dust
exhaust systems. Whatever style of closure, KHS
offers the appropriate sealing solution for all
requirements.This also applies to aluminum rollon caps used mainly in the spirits trade or guala
caps occasionally employed primarily to cap
high-quality products such as cognac.
Labeling
Regardless of the container shape and the type
of material you would like to use and which
advertising accents are needed, KHS has the
right labeling solution for wine, champagne,
and spirits – a sector in which considerable
effort is always involved in differentiating product dressings and design. You are well equipped at all times with KHS labeling machines
that are versatile, offer a wide spectrum of possible combinations, and a great variety of techniques. Precision labeling and exact bottle
alignment for applying seal labels, for example,
is no problem.
Keg processing
KHS Innokeg® systems also offer optimum solutions for highly efficient washing, sterilizing, and
racking processes and the handling of standard
casks in the wine industry while taking customer-specific needs into consideration. Stateof-the-art DCF keg racking technology reduces
the volume of counter-pressure gas as well as
the O² pickup. The result is an optimally controlled racking process with exceptionally constant
fill levels. Perfect hygienic design additionally
ensures extremely low-germ racking and reliable operation. The extensive KHS delivery program includes individual machines and complete systems that set the standard in the field
of keg processing. Backed by years of experience, we constantly develop innovations such
as the KHS ContiKeg®, KegBoy, and Transomat
racking systems designed for various capacity
requirements that guarantee our customers an
important competitive edge.
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HIGHLY FLEXIBLE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS – EVEN FOR HIGH-PROOF SPIRITS:
KHS SETS THE STANDARD IN THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SECTOR
High performance for every taste
Whether wine, champagne, or spirits, each
product makes special demands on filling technology. KHS therefore offers the efficient and
gentle product handling solutions for the entire
beverage industry. So that the flavor and aroma
of all products is retained and you can produce
your products at full speed with little effort even
if you need to quickly change product and bottle styles now and then.
Customer dialog is the recipe for success
The KHS performance features are the result of
years of intensive dialog with customers that
have lead us jointly to more and more new solutions such as other filling methods, which can
be implemented to fill champagne at temperatures of up to +19° C without gushing and product loss. Another example is a system for cold
sterile filling of wine at a highest standard of
microbial safety. With this filling system, you can
bottle still wine, sparkling wine, and other effervescent beverages as well as champagne on one
and the same filler.
Long-tube filling technology that fills your products bottom-up in bottles in a gentlest possible
way - in both glass and plastic bottles. KHS also
enables you to fill top-quality spirits with a minimum amount of oxygen pickup without loss of
flavor, alcohol, or product.
Perfect filling results from KHS
With more than 6000 systems installed worldwide, KHS is one of the leading suppliers of filling systems in the beverage sector, and has set
new standards with numerous technological
innovations. Also in the wine, champagne, and
spirits sector where with the KHS Innofill® DNRT
– a pressure and normal pressure filling system
without filling tubes for champagne, sparkling
wine, and top-quality wines – an alternative
technology to the long-tube filling system was
developed that is compelling based on its high
fill level accuracy using the Trinox method. Or
the KHS Innofill® MF filling system designed for
still products that optionally operates with normal or negative pressure. The computer-controlled KHS Innofill® NRF-OFE normal pressure
filling system equipped with long filling tubes,
in contrast, ensures bottom-up, low-oxygen
pickup filling without dripping and with high fill
level accuracy. There has been a change in
recent years in bottling systems predestined for
the spirits sector. The current trend is away from
vacuum filling technique and toward the balanced pressure method. The reason is that the
balanced pressure filling method retains the flavor and alcohol content of spirits. For many
years, the electro-pneumatic KHS Innofill® NRFOFE normal pressure filling system has provided
top-quality filling to the spirits branch of
industry. The KHS Innofill® NRF-OFE offers pushbutton changeover of fill levels for different
types of bottle. When it comes to hygienic
design, KHS scores an enormous number of
points with its specially developed, revolutionary front table with round, smooth surfaces. The
lack of niches dead spaces, corners, and edges
enables perfect sanitizing thereby achieving
maximum standards of hygiene.
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The classical filling system for wine,
champagne, and spirits
The unique performance features and
details of all machines and systems from
KHS are impressive:
KHS Innofill® DRF – ”the classical
champagne filler“
The counter-pressure principle of filling
and multiple-stage snifting avoids
gushing. As a result, the KHS Innofill ®
DRF is able to fill champagne at up to
19° C without condensation forming on
the bottles for subsequent trouble-free
labeling. The bottle height is changed at
the push of a button.
bulence, without loss of flavor and alcohol, and with minimum oxygen pickup.
KHS Innofill® DNRT – also for
effervescent wines and champagne
This filling system operates with balanced
and counter-pressure and in addition to
a variable number of pre-rinsing and
evacuation steps, it offers an automatic,
centrally adjustable return gas adjustment facility for fill level correction. The
ideal system for filling of still and effervescent beverages.
KHS Innofill® NRF-OFE – for still
wines and spirits
The electronic, long-tube filling system
can be individually adapted as required to
obtain a filling process without tur
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PREMIUM BEVERAGES NEED SPARKLING CLEAN BOTTLES:
RINSING TECHNOLOGY FROM KHS
Perfect performance
The trend towards more non-alcoholic and noncarbonated beverages sets higher standards on
biological safety and hygiene. The increasing
quality requirements also posed on select wines
and noble spirits necessitate first-class bottle
cleaning results. KHS bottle washing technology
offers you maximum product safety together
with fully developed functionality thought out
down to the last detail for processing all types
of beverage and container and unique knowhow for integrating rinsers into complete lines.
KHS offers built-in future-proofing right from
the start thanks to the constant further development of our systems and processing methods to
meet future market requirements.
Because the wine, champagne, and spirits industry
uses primarily new glass containers, the demands
made on rinsing equipment for one-way bottles
are different. For less frequently used refillable
glass bottles on the other hand, multiple-bath
bottle washers are used whereas the current
trend is towards regional bottle rinsing centers.
Single or double-channel rinser?
Simplified rinsing equipment can be used when
filling new glass bottles in the spirits industry. It
is usually sufficient to invest in a single-channel
rinser that blows out the bottles with air or
rinses out the bottles with product. Depending
on the shape of the bottle and the style of product to be filled, further rinsing with product can
be important in addition to rinsing with air in
which case, a double-channel rinser handles the
task of blowing out and rinsing the bottles. Both
mechanical and electronic versions of all rinser
models are available. The latter offers the advantage of variable treatment times and rinsing
programs that can be changed quickly and simply at the push of a button.
Rinsing equipment for wine
The cold sterile method of operation is
used in this case, i.e. sterilization with
steam, peracetic acid, chlorine dioxide,
or ozone by electronic or mechanical
double- or triple-channel systems. This
method incorporates the bottle mouth
area in the sterilization process.
Rinsing equipment for spirits
A rinser is used for spirits bottles that
blows the bottles out with air or sprays
them out with a product/water mixture
to prevent adverse affects to the quality
of the product.
Rinsing equipment for champagne
Single-channel and in some few instances,
double-channel rinsing systems are primarily used in the champagne industry.
Simple fresh water spraying is generally
sufficient.
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BRILLIANT SOLUTIONS IN PRACTICE:
SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED BY KHS
Completely monitored: Palletizing center
at Henkell & Söhnlein
After a planning and construction period of less
than 10 months, a palletizing and logistics center successfully completed by KHS went into
operation at Henkell & Söhnlein in WiesbadenBiebrich.
Henkell & Söhnlein is one of the world‘s largest
sparkling wine cellars and produces nearly 90
million bottles of sparkling wine annually at its
facilities in Wiesbaden-Biebrich. In addition to
the old-established Henkell Trocken and Fürst
von Metternich brands, Henkell‘s range of products includes Carstens SC, Söhnlein Brillant,
Rüttgers Club, Wodka Gorbatschow, and Batida
de Coco all bottled, labeled, and packed on six
bottling lines. The entire range of products is
palletized, labeled, and distributed to the various storage locations in the new palletizing center. Considering the diverse brands of champagne and the variety of different packaging
sizes, a total of 28 different formations are
processed in the palletizing center.
Four high-performance KHS Innopal® PL-series
palletizers are installed to handle this task. All
are equipped with fully automatic layer formation changeover for flexible production operation. The palletizing center is centrally monitored
by a camera system and a cell phone that transmit disruption data directly to the system supervisor. The intelligent plant information system
records all operational and disruption data
enabling fast reaction to any problems that may
occur. The heart of the logistics is an automatic
high-bay warehouse through which all pallet
transport logistics of the various products are
processed.
All guaranteed values for the entire system were
validated within only a few weeks. As a followup order, KHS installed a new bottling line
equipped with an electronic KHS Innofill® DRF
filler designed to process 30,000 0.2-liter
Piccolo bottles per hour.
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A VERY SPECIAL FEAT AT SCHLOSS WACHENHEIM:
MADE BY KHS
Schloss Wachenheim AG, a Trier-based sparkling wine producer continues to rely on KHS
quality as evidenced by its most recent investment in a computer-controlled KHS Innofill ®
DRF 126/9 triple-chamber filler equipped with
126 filling stations and 9 capping stations. The
filler is blocked with an KHS Innoclean ® FR
DL/72 steam rinser. Schloss Wachenheim additionally invested in a high-performance KHS
Innopal ® PL 1 BSN 1 that was successfully put
into operation in the company‘s dry area.
Reorganization was the first item on the agenda
in order to integrate the new line equipment
into the existing concept. Among other things,
it was necessary to relocate the existing new
glass depalletizer, which unlike the logistical
tasks involved in installing new components,
presented a small challenge.
The question was how to transport the new
machines into the new hall. How could the system be placed in the plant if the doors are too
small?
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KHS thought out a flexible solution in this case
as well – through the roof by means of a crane.
A truck-mounted crane with a lifting capacity
400 tons was ordered that maneuvered the individual sections through the roof literally to
the millimeter. After all, the heaviest section to
be lifted into the hall weighed 27 tons. No problem for the experts from KHS as it turned out in
Trier.
In the meantime, the entire 18,000 0.75-liter
bottle-per-hour sparkling wine line has been
completely installed and is running outstandingly. What remains are the memories
of a very special installation feat and the good
feeling of having a partner like KHS that is able
to solve even the challenging of problems.
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WINZER KREMS RELIES ON QUALITY WINES RACKED IN KEGS –
AND THUS ON SUCCESS
Tradition and innovation perfectly combined in
one – Winzer Krems, Austria‘s largest viticultural
cooperative, makes it clear that this can be
achieved in a stylish and convincing way. It
begins with the new cellar equipment operating
according to tried and tested methods, includes
a very impressive sensory experience concept
for visitors, and ends with the traditional use of
innovative keg equipment for filling wine for the
restaurant trade.
Winzer Krems produces nearly 10 million liters
of quality wines annually, which are distributed
in different sizes and shapes of bottle to both
end consumers and to the restaurant trade that
is additionally delivered wine in kegs. This still
rather unusual type of packaging offers clear
advantages. The stainless steel kegs are hermetically sealed, absolutely lightproof, taste-neutral, resistant to corrosion and impact, and can
be stored for virtually an unlimited period
without any affect on the quality of the wine.
Added to this is the decreased handling in conjunction with a professionally installed dispen-
sing system that always keeps the wine on tap
at a constant and ideal dispensing temperature.
Perfect keg washing and gentle racking are the
basis for ensuring top quality wine in kegs. KHS
provided the optimum conditions for this purpose by supplying keg equipment with a capacity of up to 60 kegs per hour. Winzer Krems runs
the KHS line in a single-shift. Before the kegs
returned from the restaurant trade are fed into
the single-lane KHS Innokeg ® Transomat 3/1
washing and racking machine, they pass through
an KHS Innokeg® AK 1 keg exterior washer. Specific rinsing of the filling head with hot water is
the next item on the agenda before the cleaned
keg is hooked up to the filling head. This method
guarantees maximum microbial safety and the
perfect washing process creates the prerequisites for an ideal racking process. Maximum
flexibility for all eventualities.
also be racked if required using the KHS Innokeg®
Transomat 3/1, which is able to rack other keg
sizes ranging from the 7-liter to the 58-liter keg
version.
”We rely very specifically on KHS keg equipment. The gentle filling process can be practiced
outstandingly with our technical solution. The
oxygen and gas pickup in the product is minimized and the natural effervescence is retained
during the racking process.“ Franz Arndorfer,
Winzer Krems‘ Chief Cellar Master thus verifies
the choice of systems.
After all, Winzer Krems orients itself consistently to the market and is getting ready in the
future for smaller format wine kegs for end
customers as well as sparkling wine in kegs for
the restaurant trade. With KHS, this Austrian
winery has a decidedly innovative and receptive
technology and system equipment partner at its
side.
In addition to the white and red wines filled by
Winzer Krems up to now, sparkling wine can
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REGIONAL WINEGROWERS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL CLAIM TO QUALITY
TRUST IN PLANT TECHNOLOGY FROM KHS
Badischer Winzerkeller relies on quality‚
directly from the Producer
Wines with a slightly stylized W trademark and
a seal of quality equally embracing a promise of
the Badischer Winzerkeller: Top quality directly
from the producer. With this claim and the corresponding farsightedness, Germany‘s largest
wine producer was able to increase its yearly
production volume to 30 million liters distributed
in an assortment of more than 600 different
wines, some of which bottled in innovative
styles of packaging. One example is Rebstöckle,
a wine spritzer created by Badischer Winzerkeller that is distributed in 0.5-liter one-way PET
bottles. The main requirements made of the
new system included supplying a vacuum-less
filling system and capabilities for processing an
extensive range of bottle types coupled with
assurance of maximum filling quality in conjunction with facilities for flexible reaction to possible new developments. The resulting heart of
the line, a new 80-station KHS Innofill ® NRFOFE balanced-pressure filling system capable of
filling 20,000 bottles per hour is the largest KHS
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balanced-pressure filling system in operation in
the German wine trade. Using the bottom-up
method of filling with long filling tubes, the KHS
Innofill® NRF-OFE fills wine in bottles in a gentlest possible way thus enabling filling in practical operation for the first time without any loss
of quality and flavor but with a minimum of oxygen pickup. Numerous concealed and open
tastings corroborated the quality lead provided
by the new filling system. With the new rinserfiller-capper block, the Badischer Winzerkeller is
already well prepared today for production
innovations of tomorrow. Other individually
designed bottle shapes or bottling in PET later is
no problem for the KHS solution that can handle
everything. With KHS, Badischer Winzerkeller
has the right partner at its side for the future to
also retain the outstanding product quality even
of select wines. Even now, the joint quality philosophy is bearing rich fruit.
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A MASTERPIECE FOR JÄGERMEISTER:
KHS FILLING AND PACKING TECHNOLOGY
Jägermeister, the world‘s most famous German
spirit, began its international rise to fame as
early as the 1960s and has always placed particular emphasis on quality and its brand identity, which is identical in all regions worldwide.
With KHS, Jägermeister has found a competent
partner in filling and packaging technology. In
line with the motto strength to strength success to success, Jägermeister‘s most recent
German bottling location went into operation
in Linden. Jägermeister consistently meets the
increasing demand for it products by installing
one of the world‘s highest-performance spirits
lines for format bottles. Today, a KHS line with
a capacity of 20,000 bottles per hour is in operation at the Linden plant where six different
styles of Jägermeister bottle are currently being
processed ranging in size from 0.35 to 1 liter.
Because of its high flexibility, the system is also
equipped to handle other types and sizes of
bottle in the future. Painted in rich Jägermeister
orange and herbal liqueur green, the entire line
presents visible highlight suitable for the brand.
From a technical standpoint, the Jägermeister
line is compelling over the entire spectrum:
ranging from the gentle depalletizing process
to the modular dry area concept, perfect row
removal, the variable rinse program provided
by an electronically controlled double-channel
rinser, up to the completely servo-driven rinserfiller-capper-labeler block. With this line, KHS
offers a filling process predestined for highquality spirits. The fill level principle of filling
by means of a computer-controlled, 80-station
KHS Innofill® NRF-OFE filling system equipped
with long filling tubes ensures exact fill levels
and gentle-to-product filling without any loss
of flavor and alcohol. The subsequent labeling
process guarantees the optimum brand appearance of this high-quality spirit at the point of
sale and ensures that Jägermeister is well prepared for continued perfectly designed success.
Prerequisite for this is plant equipment that
meets maximum demands and complies fully
with Mast-Jägermeister‘s quality philosophy.
”With Jägermeister we are providing a premium spirit based on a concept,
which only allows high-quality technical solutions to be used for bottling and packing.
We made our decision in favor of KHS based on the impressive technical solutions offered.“
Dirk Löding, Manager of Production and Merchandise Management at Mast-Jägermeister AG
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IT‘S THE MIX THAT DOES IT:
FRUIT BRANDY PRODUCER BIMMERLE RELIES ON KNOW-HOW, HIGH-TECH, AND TRADITION
”Select products need not necessarily be expensive“ – this is the company philosophy of the
northern Black Forest-based noble fruit brandy
distiller Bimmerle KG, producer of Germany‘s
and Europe‘s No. 1 brand of fruit brandy. With
sales totaling 21 million bottles, the success of
Bimmerle noble brandies therefore runs against
the general trend. Fifty percent of production is
distributed as brand name products to food
retailers and the other fifty percent as generic
brands to the discount sector. Bimmerle‘s wide
range of Lörch brand products is oriented
entirely to customer demands as reflected in
the broad variety of different bottle sizes and
shapes. Whether 0.04-liter or 1-liter size –
everything is possible. What counts is above
all the quality of the noble brandies and the
appearance of the bottles and packaging.
Quality was therefore clearly the most important aspect when it came to deciding on a new
packaging line. A reliable technical solution,
which was solid and rugged, and at the same
time was equipped with the cutting-edge com14
ponents, was implemented jointly with KHS.
Further advantages include outstanding quality
of workmanship, great ease of operation, good
accessibility, and fast service. Today, a dry section solution is in operation at Bimmerle that
incorporates the latest in technical components,
and is distinguished by an individual design. The
12,000 bottle-per-hour capacity line processes
nineteen different types of bottle. Whether
round, rectangular, or octagonal – the versatile
machinery is equipped for all conceivable bottle
styles. KHS performance with regard to service
was also convincing for Bimmerle. After the line
was commissioned, an efficient service team
either arrived quickly on site or provided rapid
assistance by means of Remote Diagnostic Service mobile (KHS ReDiS ® mobile). All in all, the
cooperation between Bimmerle and KHS is a
win-win situation right down the line that has
opened the way for further growth in the international fruit brandy market.
SOLUTIONS FOR THE
WINE, CHAMPAGNE, AND SPIRITS INDUSTRY
FROM THE MACHINE TO THE SOLUTION:
From SERVICE TO PARTNERSHIP
Economy and productivity over the entire
life cycle
KHS has many years of experience with design,
construction, and manufacture of filling and
packing systems and knows what counts. In
addition to modern machine equipment, sufficient buffer zones are planned, for instance, to
ensure trouble-free production coupled with
maximum efficiency in the long term. Our job
does not end with commissioning, however.
Our competence centers and service offices
around the globe are the first point of contact
for our customers. A consistently well-planned
and simulated detailed solution approach is pursued in the pre-sale area in particular to eliminate any interface problems right from the start
and ensure perfect integration into existing
intralogistics.
In good hands worldwide:
The KHS after-sale program
KHS is your competent service provider and
partner wherever in the world you are, with
competent support from system planning to
commissioning and including support on microbiological issues.
Innovations are then implemented by KHS in
the subsequent development and construction
phase. The result is highly efficient machines and
systems offering a future-proof investment and
high flexibility based on end-to-end service.
Boundless service
The great demand for KHS plant equipment is
not based on our outstanding machine concept
alone but our excellent service performance as
well. This service begins with optimum system
Maximum performance can be learned:
KHS training
All KHS systems have been designed and are
able to achieve high availability and excellent
efficiency, provided operating and maintenance
personnel know how to handle the machines
properly. The KHS Training Center offers intensive, practice-oriented training courses for your
employees – either at our factory-based training
facilities or directly at your site.
design and includes immediate assistance to
clarify any questions that arise. More than
60 KHS service locations outstandingly ensure
local presence worldwide and on special
request, KHS also offers direct assistance online.
A service tool – Remote Diagnostic Service
mobile (KHS ReDiS ® mobile) – is provided for this
purpose that is able to immediately analyze
machine components around the globe from
KHS headquarters. This shortens downtime,
increases machine availability, and thus improves the productivity of your line.
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EVERY PREMIUM BEVERAGE
IS BACKED BY THE RIGHT SYSTEM SOLUTION
With KHS, you are well prepared for all future trends in the wine, champagne, and spirits markets.
Talk to us about future trends and your individual plans for future markets.
We will be glad to give you sound advice.
KHS AG
Juchostraße 20
D-44143 Dortmund
Wine/Champagne/Spirits Division
Phone:+49 (671) 852-2380
Fax: +49 (671) 852-2217
E-mail:ws@khs.com
www.khs.com