High flexibility with wrap-around labelling

Anastasios Veletakos is a genuine all-rounder. With Veta S.A., he’s made a name for himself primarily in the metal processing sector, but he’s also active in the beverage industry: under the name of Nera Kritis, he not only produces moulds, preforms and closures, but since 2000 has also been extracting and bottling his own water. The company has now already opened its third plant – and installed one of the first compact-size ErgoBloc LM wet-end blocks there.

From sliced bread and BBQ sauces all the way through to beverages – when you browse the shelves in Austrian supermarkets, then you’ll find Spitz everywhere you look. The company is a sort of hidden champion, since it produces not only numerous brands of its own but also a huge array of dealer’s brands for food and beverage retailers. The demand for energy drinks, juices and ice tea, in particular, is unbroken. Which is precisely why the company has now invested in a new dry-aseptic line from Krones.

Paradisiacal surroundings, a secluded spring and naturally pure water – for Biruk Haile Shemer the preconditions for a water company of his own could not have been better. And so he decided to build a bottling plant in Arbegona, enabling him to offer artesian water on the Ethiopian market in future.

In 2007, Vladimir Kayshev took over Pyatigorskiy Dairy, formerly a state-run operation dating back to the 1980s. The equipment was in dire need of upgrading and was capable of processing only 20 metric tons of raw milk per day. Four years later, Kayshev decided to invest heavily in the plant and gradually transform it into a state-of-the-art dairy.