Designed for drinks that include pulps or particles, Sidel’s new Veloce ISD is a hot filler offering guaranteed dosing accuracy and particle integrity.
The Integrated Slurry Dosing system is suitable for pulpy juices, flavoured waters with fruit pieces, Chinese speciality drinks and aloe vera or coconut-based drinks in PET containers.
The filler can dose particles up to 10x10x10mm in size and with particle quantity concentration from 10 to 200ml, depending on the recipe and bottle size (from 200ml to 2-litre).
The Veloce ISD in-line filler includes double stage filling after the bottle rinsing: first comes the dose of particles in pumpable slurry and then the filling of the bottle with liquid juice. The very high accurate dosage of the Veloce ISD guarantees a very steady and precise quantity of particles in the final beverage filled.
This filler also guarantees the filled beverage quality. Less than 10% of the particles are damaged during processing and filling, it is claimed.
The monobloc handles plastics bottles by the neck and is composed of a rinser, doser, filler and capper. The slurry dosing turret has contactless valves for hygienic filling. The usual filling tube is replaced by a special design of the valve for volumetric dosing, patented by Sidel. Due to the horizontal position of the lower surface of the valve cone, the flow cut off of the stream is very precise and does not cause any dripping or product wastage. Capping is ‘much safer’ as no microbiological risk between the neck thread and the cap can occur, says the company.
The Veloce ISD can be used as a stand-alone filler or in an integrated blow-fill-cap Combi configuration.
