Big 8 installs big beverage line

For nearly 30 years, Big 8 Beverages has been manufacturing high-quality spring water and soft drinks from Nova Scotia in Canada. The company now exports its beverages all around the world.

Recently, the company engaged Italian company SIPA to install a complete beverage line. SIPA also assisted in the design of Big 8’s new PET preform and spring water bottle designs for its 500 mL and 1 L PET bottles.

Big 8 produces spring water and soft drinks.

SIPA installed a SincroBloc, which included an integrated SFR 6 EVO rotary stretch blow-moulding unit and a Stillfill SP gravity filler. The line runs at 12,000 bottles/h when producing and filling 500 mL PET bottles.

The Sincro Bloc is a compact integrated system for high-speed blowing, filling and capping and is suitable for operations where reduced footprints are required. It can handle a range of bottles, necks and cap sizes and can be operated by just one person - providing significant savings in labour costs.

The SIPA SincroBloc.

“Big 8 liked the idea of getting everything it needed for its new production system from a single source,” said Denis Marcon from SIPA.

“SIPA was able to configure the system to run at high speeds while producing quality bottles. The SFR 6 EVO impressed with its speed, compact design, easy accessibility and short changeover times.”

SIPA is represented in Oceania by HBM Plastics & Packaging Technologies.