Bottling company

The bottling is a part of production process in companies that manufacture beverages, be it mineral water, fruit juices, beer, wine, brandy, or otherwise.

Today is for filling usually an automated bottling plant - a highly automated line for an intermittent flow manufacturing -. Such manufacturing facilities are highly capital intensive.

Production steps are usually clean the bottles, checking the bottle head geometry ( if the screw thread and the sealing collar is intact), the filling with the drink, closing with a screw cap or a cork, labeling and often even the sorting of bottles in Boxes. In preparation for cleaning and refilling the bottles still existing bottle caps may be removed with a Decrowner.

In some productions, such as the bottling of wine in bottles, a filling is needed only a few days of the year. Therefore, many wineries waive its own facility and avail themselves of a contract filler - operation, which is moved forward with its investment on a truck and within a few days concerned the business of bottling on payroll or contract basis.

During the industrialization, the filling technology has evolved. The technology had to be adapted to the characteristics of the drinks to be filled and the quality demands of consumers. For example, while relatively inexpensive spirits can be filled in bottles, since they are " autosterilisierend " beer must be filled under counter pressure and oxygen as possible without contact. Legal framework and hygiene requirements affect the filling also.

Because wines comparatively low alcohol content and often contain residual sugar, it must be carefully and aseptically filled. Fine filters separate the wine from suspended solids and any remaining yeast cells to prevent secondary fermentation. Clean, clear and stable, the filtered wine is then bottled in sterile bottles and sealed with sterile corks, screw caps or otherwise.

• Wine as a theme
• Filling Technology