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11/10/2015

KHS Innofill Can filler granted TÜV certificate

Certificate for the KHS Innofill Can DVD product series: TÜV SÜD has now awarded the coveted energy and media efficiency (EME) quality mark to the can filler.

• Inspection body confirms efficiency
• Significant savings in energy consumption
• EME quality mark granted for three years

Dortmund, November 10, 2015 – Certificate for the KHS Innofill Can DVD product series: TÜV SÜD has now awarded the coveted energy and media efficiency (EME) quality mark to the can filler. To this end the inspection body recently subjected the machine series to close scrutiny in a detailed audit. "High efficiency in the use of energy and materials is essential to our customers. TÜV SÜD has now confirmed that we also satisfy these requirements to the highest degree with our Innofill Can DVD," says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Niemeyer, CEO of KHS GmbH. With a certificate numbered KC/494/14/164/04/15 TÜV SÜD has confirmed the exceptional sustainability of the filling machines. In the audit they achieved extremely low values for energy and material consumption. Another KHS machine series to receive an EME certificate as recently as February of this year was the KHS Innofill Glass. When developing the Innofill Can filler series KHS attached great importance to saving resources and providing flexibility. The computer-controlled system can fill a great variety of products which range from beer through CSDs and still beverages to coffee and tea in 0.1- to 1-liter formats. Changeover times between the different products and can sizes are short, with a maximum output of 132,000 cans per hour possible. KHS has also reduced the consumption of raw materials and energy compared to earlier models in the series. Where total oxygen pickup when filling beer into 0.5-liter cans was previously between 80 to 120 ppb and the carbon dioxide consumption at around 800 to 1,000 grams per hectoliter, with the low-pressure CAN+ purging process practiced on the Innofill Can DVD oxygen pickup can be reduced by up to 50% using the same amount of CO₂. Alternatively, the amount of CO₂ used drops by up to 30% when the amount of oxygen remains the same. The special technical and hygienic design of the system enables shorter cleaning times and longer maintenance intervals, in turn minimizing costs for water, energy and cleaning agents and ultimately increasing line availability. Short maintenance times and long maintenance intervals yield considerable cost savings. 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.