Indonesian brewery commissions Sidel’s can line
A growing market for beer has led Bali Hai Brewery Indonesia to install a new canning line, accommodating a higher production capacity while securing the quality of their premium beers.
Designed and supplied by Sidel, the line runs at up to 33,000 cans per hour for the 330 ml format, twice as fast as the former one, and features a very compact layout, thus overcoming the Indonesian brewer’s space constraints.
As the country’s leading independent brewery, Bali Hai Brewery Indonesia has been developing and distributing a distinctive range of beer brands for the national and international markets since 1975.
“Currently our products are sold in more than twenty countries, including Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Korea and New Zealand, as well as different regions of Africa. While capturing the opportunities offered by a consumer demand that is continuously increasing, we are committed to maintaining the consistent taste and quality of our beers,” explains Daniel To, Technical Director at Bali Hai.
With a domestic market share of 3.2% in 2018, the family-owned company is the fourth largest domestic brewery and the first one behind global brands, offering a portfolio that speaks to the consumers’ increasing preference for local as well as premium beer brands. These include Bali Hai Premium, Draft Beer, El Diablo Original and Panther Black. Regardless of the strong Indonesian regulations to control alcoholic drink consumption, the beer segment in the country is showing a very positive trajectory: it is set to register a 7% total volume CAGR to reach 324 million litres by 2023. To keep up with this growth, Bali Hai decided to invest in a large-scale project and – in doing so – opted to partner with Sidel for the very first time.
The Sidel complete canning line includes 13 different machines, laid out in six larger production modules: the de-palletiser, the filler and seamer, the pasteuriser, the dryers, the shrink-wrapper and the tray shrink-wrapper, plus conveying systems. Bali Hai’s goal of protecting beer quality was mainly achieved through the integration of two specific solutions in the line: the latest Sidel volumetric electronic filler for cans and the proven PAMA pasteuriser.