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11/10/2015

More flexibility for keg fillers: the KHS Innokeg Transomat 6/1

In order to meet the growing demands made of keg washing, KHS GmbH has extended its established Innokeg Transomat series.

• Flexible system for keg washing and filling
• Additional washing stage meets growing demand
• Optimized filling head and redesigned fitting backwash

Dortmund, November 10, 2015 – In order to meet the growing demands made of keg washing, KHS GmbH has extended its established Innokeg Transomat series. Thanks to further optimization the flexible KHS Innokeg Transomat 6/1 inline machine for up to 100 kegs per hour and line provides hygienic filling with low CO₂ and product consumption. With its additional washing station the KHS Innokeg Transomat 6/1 offers even more flexibility in keg hygiene. "With this we're meeting the demand of our customers for individual processes, such as longer steaming or additional rinsing stages," explains Hilmar Fickert, head of keg mechanical design engineering at KHS. The filling and packaging specialist from Dortmund, Germany, is actively pursuing the move towards customized washing specifications. Global trends, such as longer storage times and greater shipping distances, extended keg pool life cycles and more frequent changes of product, mean that the demands made of keg washing are also increasing in a number of ways. KHS is meeting this challenge and now making extended, flexible washing possible with an additional station for its established Transomat series. Whether filling or racking beer, wine, soft drinks, water, or juice, the individual stages in the process can be adapted to suit customer requirements. Other improvements which have a big impact can be found in the detail: if needed a new backwash cleans the keg fitting more thoroughly, for instance; the new media disc valve has been designed and the materials selected to enable an even longer service life; and the optimized filling system provides faster filling while remaining gentle to the product. "Our established Transomat 3/1 and 5/1 models also benefit from these modifications," says Fickert. "The Transomat 6/1 is particularly suitable when it comes to satisfying fastidious washing requirements and filling extremely demanding products in combination with top line performance." With their especially hygienic, standardized modular design existing Innokeg Transomat lines are installed, converted, extended or modernized in a very short time indeed. They are suitable for use as single machines or to supplement automatic keg lines for the medium capacity range. They are installed across one or two lanes (Mono/Duo series) or in groups. Monitor control with simple operator prompting enables direct access to all machine functions. The KHS Innokeg Transomat can also be flexibly adapted to process all market-standard, one-way containers, such as PETAINER kegs, KeyKegs, PolyKegs or EcoKegs. About the KHS Group The KHS Group is one of the leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries. The KHS Group includes the following companies: KHS GmbH, KHS Corpoplast GmbH, KHS Plasmax GmbH and NMP Systems GmbH. KHS GmbH manufactures modern filling and packaging systems at its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, and in Kleve, Bad Kreuznach and Worms. The KHS Group's PET expertise is pooled at KHS Corpoplast and KHS Plasmax in Hamburg, Germany, where light PET packaging and innovative coating systems are developed and produced. NMP Systems GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KHS GmbH based in Düsseldorf in Germany, designs and markets new, resource-saving packaging systems for PET bottles. The group has an international production and service network with over 4,600 employees. In 2015 KHS was awarded the Top 100 seal of approval for exceptional innovative power and outstanding innovative success among German SMEs. In 2014 the group achieved a turnover of €1.08 billion. The companies in the KHS Group are 100% subsidiaries of the MDAX-listed Salzgitter AG corporation.