Multipacks for brewery

A Krones machine has been producing multipacks at the Stiegl Brewery in Salzburg, Austria. Master Brewer Christian Pöpperl is fully satisfied with the commissioning and function of his Solidpac packer. What's more, this renders the Stiegl brewery independent of the customary constraints of system business, enabling them to purchase their cardboard blanks wherever they like.

Thanks to its purposefully pursued quality-driven strategy, the Stiegl Brewery is steadily climbing the ladder of success. While output came to 775,000 hL only five years ago, in 2005 911,000 hL of Stiegl beer went out through the brewery's gates, a growth attributable not least to the multifaceted variety of types and packs on offer. This was one of the reasons why the Stiegl brewery had installed a repacking line from Krones in 2002 - for repacking 0.5 L bottles in open-carrier sixpacks onto display pallets or packing them in 18/20-size pinolen crates. For secondary products, in particular, the open-carrier sixpacks have given good service.

This repacking line was expanded early in 2006 to include a section for packing non-returnables, enabling non-returnable 0.33 L bottles to be made into multipacks and put on trays. By developing an individualised bottle with a 1960s retro design, Stiegl incorporated the growing non-returnables segment into its own bottling and packaging operations.

For this purpose, in the spring of 2006, Stiegle also installed a Solidpac, a downstream Wrapapac WTS 45, plus a Pressant Compact (designed as a layer palletiser), to supplement the open-carrier packing system. This new line section is rated at 30,000 bph, corresponding to the existing repacking line's output.