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The Weighblock filler ensures ultra-accurate electronic weight monitoring using a net/gross comparison.

The privately owned Portuguese company Riazor – Aceites de Oleos Vegetais SA trades with olive oil and other edible oils, both as container goods

and as household-sized packages. The company from the Alentejo is also involved with a bio-diesel facility for generating energy, has a presence in the transporta-tion sector, and runs its own olive tree plantations, on which the Arbequina, Cobrançosa, Galega, Lentrisca, Picual and Koroneiki varieties are grown. The Cardoso family markets its top-quality olive oil under the brand-names of Sabor de Olaia, Capitao, Lagareiro, Casal de Amendoeira and Torrejana, all of which are offered in glass bottles. The edible oils Pôr-de-Sol and Fritaplus, by contrast, are marketed in PET containers.

In Riachos, in the heart of Portugal, Riazor possesses storage capacities of 26,000 cubic metres, so as to ensure rapid-response deliveries. At this facility three years ago, in a newly built hall, Riazor also installed its first in-house bottling capability for olive oil and other edible oils

In Portugal, the Riazor company has now started to bottle olive oils and other edible oils in-house. For this purpose, Riazor installed a PET line and a glass line, both of them from Kosme.

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The KSB 4L PET with four cavities produces 1.0-litre containers at a speed of 6,000 containers an hour.

Preform trans-port in the linear machine.

The PET line han-dles containers from 1.0 to 5.0 litres in size.

The containers are dressed on an Extra HM labeller, equipped for handling hotmelt labels.

in small-size containers through its subsidiary Fábrica Torrejana S.A. For this project, Riazor opted for Kosme’s technology throughout, and installed a PET line for 1.0-, 3.0- and 5.0-litre containers rated at 6,000 containers an hour with reference to 1.0-litre bottles, plus a glass line rated at 3,000 bottles an hour for 1.0-litre bottles.

PET line with two stretch blow-moulding machinesThe PET line features two stretch blow-moulding ma-chines for different container sizes. A KSB 2XL with two moulds produces 3.0- and 5.0-litre containers at a speed of 2,400 containers an hour. As a parallel option, the KSB 4L, with four cavities, produces 1.0-litre contain-ers at a speed of 6,000 containers an hour. Both stretch blow-moulding machines alternately serve the down-stream Weighblock filler, providing ultra-accurate elec-tronic weight monitoring using a net/gross comparison, and additionally fitted with a nitrogen dosing feature. After a Uniclip has affixed the carrying handles for the large-volume containers, they are dressed on an Extra HM labeller, which has been equipped to apply hotmelt labels. The PET containers are now grouped together in a packer to form four times three 1.0-litre or two times one 3.0- and 5.0-litre shrink-packs. Depending on the type of pack involved, they are palletised either by a Robogrip palletising robot or by a Pal Mec Arm PS single-column palletiser with a shutter-type gripper head. The pallet stacks are then stabilised for transport using a Volpack pallet wrapper.

Glass line uses the same palletiserThe single-column palletiser is also used for the glass line: the bulk glass is here provided by a Depack B sweep-off depalletiser. The heart of this line is like-wise a Weighblock filler equipped to handle 0.25-litre, 0.5-litre, 0.75-litre and 1.0-litre glass bottles, which are dressed in pressure-sensitive labels for body and back by a Extra AD labeller. The glass bottles are packed in cartons on a wrap-around machine, and then palletised by the above-mentioned Pal Mec Arm PS with its shut-ter-type gripper head.

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Depending on the type of pack involved, they are palletised either by a Robo-grip palletising robot or by a Pal Mec Arm PS single-column palletiser with a shutter-type gripper head.

The single-column palletiser is used for both the PET line and the glass line.

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