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Four in one stroke: new glass lines for bottling beer

Manfred Kaiser

China Resources Snow Breweries (CR Snow), the country’s largest brewing company, is building a new brewery in its home country.

The company already operates more than 70 breweries in 25 provinces of the country, many of those contain machinery and entire lines from Krones that have been up and running successfully for decades. Krones will also deliver four complete glass lines for the new plant in Bengbu. In this brewery, CR Snow will fill its beers into six different glass bottle sizes ranging from 280 to 580 milliliters, some of which feature embossing.

Project:Four glass lines for bottling beer
Costumer:China Resources Snow Breweries
Location:Bengbu (Anhui province), China
Commissioning:Q2 2022
Scope:

Four 50,000-bph glass lines for filling beer:         

  • Three lines contain each a Modulfill HRS filler and a LinaFlex pasteurizer.
  • One of the four lines is designed to fill unpasteurized beer. To ensure that the associated higher hygiene requirements are met, this particular line is equipped with an electronic Modulfill HES filler.

Furthermore, all four lines include:

About CR Snow

CR Snow is a subsidiary of China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd. and is among the five largest brewery groups in the world. CR Snow produces Snow. It is the beer brand with the highest consumption by volume in the world even though it is hardly known outside China since nearly all of that volume is drunk within its home country.

 

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