Flexible labelling of sparkling wine bottles with modular machines

At Novi Ligure, Italy, the Campari group has inaugurated a new plant which comprises eight bottling lines.
For bottling Spumante Asti Cinzano, Cinzano Prosecco and the other sparkling wines, Campari installed a line from Krones featuring the very latest state-of-the-art design for sparkling-wine bottling.
Campari is the first Italian beverage company to use a modularised labeller from the Topmodul family, and another one at the Sulmona plant in Abruzzi. The modularised design fits in with Campari’s corporate philosophy of retaining maximised flexibility. And this includes keeping an option open for handling pressure-sensitive labels in the future. For the time being, Campari is using three variable cold-glue stations for applying shoulder and back labels, plus a champagne band, together with a fixed hotmelt station for the tax strip, which is affixed to the cork with two dots of glue.

The benefits of the modular machines at a glance:

• Flexibility
  If the labelling process is changed frequently, the suitable labelling stations can be coupled to the machine. A second machine is not needed.
• Smaller size
  Labelling stations that are not needed are simply disconnected
• Accessibility
  Disconnection of the labelling stations facilitates maintenance work at the container table
• Servodrive technology
  Easy change of the labelling method becomes reality.