Airknives Ensure That Pre-Glued Labels Attach

Purity Soft Drinks benefit from a Secomak air knife bottle drying system.

Airknives that reduce drying costs by up to 90% when compared with thermal drying and can be installed easily, are being used by Purity Soft Drinks to ensure pre-glued labels don't slip from bottles.

When Purity Soft Drinks needed a device to ensure labels and date stamps were correctly applied to bottles at  its West Midlands plant, it turned to drying specialist Secomak for help. After the bottles are rinsed and filled they are usually wet, and this was causing pre-glued labels to slip when applied. The ink from an ink jet printer - showing best before date or date of manufacture - was also not applying properly. The solution from Secomak was to recommend a PowerStrip V airknife drying system.

It was installed on the bottling line and instantly dried the bottles, ensuring correct labelling and printing. The PowerStrip V is easy to adjust, allowing different sizes of bottles to be dried, and the entire system is enclosed within a perspex cabinet, which contains the spray produced by the air knives. Installation is very easy, with no special tools or contractors required.

Mike Cox, production Mager of Purity Soft Drinks  at the West Midland plant, said 'We are very satisfied with the PowerStrip V airknife system. It is easy to operate and maintain and has dramatically reduced the number of rejects.'