Aseptic form fill seal for Nestlé China’s mini milk portions

Nestlé China has chosen Benco Pack to supply an aseptic form-fill-seal machine for its new range of UHT milk cream mini portions.

Benco Pack custom designed a solution for the client which culminated in a fully aseptic packaging line that is highly automated and offers increased efficiency and ease of operation.

The Miniasepack/32/20 is considered one of the most cost-competitive aseptic machines available globally and was chosen due to the good ROI and the high efficiency (\>95%).

The horizontal aseptic machine uses a three-step packaging and filling process. Containers are thermoformed starting from a roll of multi-layer plastic film (PS/EVO/PE or similar), filled with the UHT product, closed by a thermo-sealed peelable lid and then cut to the desired configuration. Nestlé will produce UHT milk cream mini portions of 10 mL that are designed to be drunk with tea and coffee. The machine is capable of outputs of up to 36,000 cups/h.

Due to the aseptic packaging technology, the cups do not need to be distributed via a cold chain.

The machine is pre-sterilised and maintained in sterile conditions by steam and hydrogen peroxide sprays. The packaging materials are sterilised and the process occurs inside a tunnel with an overpressure of sterile air.

Vezio Bernadri, Chairman of the board of Sacmi Filling, said, “We have complied with increasing market demand for highly automated machines, which combine easy operation and increased efficiency, production speed and noise reductions.”