The hair and body care site was acquired two years ago from Schwarzkopf & Henkel to enhance Budelpack's high-volume contract manufacturing services offer and today supplies the majority of its output to the same brand owner.
Two existing bottle filling lines with a changeover time of over five hours per format have been replaced by one with an average changeover time of just 30 minutes, resulting in a 50% improvement in annual capacity and a 25% reduction in staffing requirements (with staff redeployed to other duties).
Budelpack says the investment will enable the plant to expand its activities from mainly supplying the site's former owner to "developing into a multi-branding platform" which serves other customers as well, providing brand owners with make-and-fill services for the entire lifecycle of their products.
The new "flexible" quick changeover line can handle 250-750ml bottles, while its puck transport system will accommodate unstable containers at "minimum tooling cost". It includes a rotary filler with an advanced recipe-management tool, electronic flow measuring equipment, a servo-driven capper able to fit both symmetrical and asymmetrical snap-on and screw-on caps, and an in-line labeller.
