Newly developed glass filler

All over the world, small craft brew­eries and winer­ies, mid-tier fill­ing plants and large bev­er­age con­glom­er­ates put their trust in lines and solu­tions from the Kro­nes Group. For the com­pa­ny, the Brau Beviale is the per­fect plat­form for meet­ing and exchang­ing mutu­al feed­back with clients both present and prospective.

One of the high­lights on Kro­nes’ stand at this year’s BrauBe­viale is a new­ly devel­oped glass filler for beer and CSDs, the Craft­mate G. It can han­dle up to 24,000 bot­tles per hour, and can be com­bined with up to two closers for crowns, screw-caps or alu­mini­um roll-on clo­sures.  In tech­no­log­i­cal terms, it resem­bles the fillers from Kro­nes’ field-proven series. For exam­ple, it oper­ates with the HRS sys­tem fea­tur­ing a vent tube, which guar­an­tees accu­rate fill lev­els. In order to keep the filler as com­pact and sim­ple as pos­si­ble, how­ev­er, there are also dif­fer­ences from the Mod­ul­fill series. For exam­ple, nec­es­sary gush-type jet­ting sys­tems have been inte­grat­ed, though exte­ri­or clean­ing is per­formed manually.

The spe­cial­ist for dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion, the Kro­nes sub­sidiary Syskron, is also bring­ing along an inno­va­tion. With the design enhance­ment of Share2Act, it has cre­at­ed  a plat­form with mul­ti-client capa­bil­i­ty in which not only can all machines in the pro­duc­tion oper­a­tion be mutu­al­ly linked and imaged, but the clas­sic func­tion­al­i­ties of MES sys­tems can also be unit­ed on a sin­gle user interface.

Kro­nes at the Brau Beviale 2019: Hall 7A, Stand 510