Advanced Electron Beams Introduces 2nd ITB Electron Beam Emitter for Aseptic Bottle Filling
Date: 03/24/2011
Company: Advanced Electron Beams
Source: PR Newswire
WILMINGTON, Mass., March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Advanced Electron Beams (AEB), a leading provider of electron beam technology, today announced the introduction of the e16ITB emitter, their second “in the bottle” product for sterilizing PET and HDPE bottles. The e16ITB was designed specifically for the Asian market where the bottle geometries require a narrow nozzle emitter. Concurrent with this product announcement, AEB also announced that they have entered into a strategic agreement with a leading Japanese equipment OEM.
Derived from AEB’s e25ITB emitter platform, the e16ITB emitter is a new product featuring a 16mm diameter, 350mm length nozzle compatible with narrow neck bottles up to two liters in volume. The e16ITB emitter can sterilize a single serve bottle in two seconds, thus supporting typical high-speed aseptic filling systems. “With this new product introduction, AEB now services the entire aseptic bottle market up to two liters,” says Jeffrey Andrews, VP of Engineering at AEB.
Brand owners and co-packers in the beverage bottle market can lower costs by reducing energy use, by reducing bottle resin and by eliminating the use of chemicals and water in their aseptic bottling systems. Resin reductions decrease overall bottle weight resulting in annual cost savings of $392,000 per gram on a typical 600BPM line. (See http://plasticsnews.com/resin-pricing/commodity-tps.html). Electron beam-based bottle sterilization offers the lowest cost of ownership and smallest footprint compared to traditional chemical-based sterilization systems.
