Beer bottle filler promises top quality performance

The company says that its newly developed KHS Innofill DRS-ZMS/S filling system achieves the world's best levels in the computer-controlled, short-tube filler sector with regard to oxygen pickup in the product and CO2 consumption when filling beer in plastic bottles.

This operational superiority has been substantiated in comprehensive field tests. Depending on the size of the plastic bottle, the CO2 consumption using the Innofill DRS-ZMS/S is between 400 and 800 g/hl - and coupled with an outstanding oxygen pickup level of between 0.02 and 0.03 mg/l at that.

It is the filling valves that make the Innofill DRS-ZMS/S cutting edge. This system has been designed so that the purging process steps are carried out completely separately from the filling process steps.

Plastic bottles are purged with CO2 by means of a newly developed hollow tube probe, which is comprised of an outer tube, inner tube, and an insulated segment. The gas flow can be regulated according to the bottle size and shape; the purging probe is adjustable at the push of a button.

The purging process of the Innofill DRS-ZMS/S is a closed process that presses the bottle mouth against the filling valve. Excess CO2 therefore does not escape directly to the atmosphere but is discharged under control through a separate channel.

The closed purging process achieves another advantage: no beer aerosols are produced that would hygienically burden the surrounding area.

Another key benefit of the new KHS filling system, says KHS, is the fact that it can also be used to bottle beer in glass with the same optimised technological values.