Beverage can ends sterilizer process for industrial seamer, filler like Krones AG, KHS AG, JBT, CFT, Ferrum AG. Destacking can lids, UVc, stacking can-lids. Useful for hygienic filling and aseptic filling of sensitive products.

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Proto V1

Proof of concept

Beverage can ends sterilizer process for industrial seamer, filler like Krones AG, KHS AG, JBT, CFT, Ferrum AG. Destacking can lids, UVc, stacking can-lids. Useful for hygienic filling and aseptic filling of sensitive products. 2 UVc lamps are shown to represent either low pressure UVc lamps or medium pressure UVc lamps. UVc lamps are often provided by companies like Hoenle or Heraeus.

The technical problem to solve was how to decontaminate aluminium can lids before they enter in the seamer.

When entering in the seamer, can ends are stacked.

UVc lamps are straight and they need direct access to both faces of the lids to make a proper decontamination.

The shortest way is to :

  • Separate can lids
  • Rotate them 90°
  • Treat them
  • Rotate them back horizontally
  • Stack them

Proto V1 was built in 2024 to validate the general concept.

And it worked! As visible on the videos published.