KHS GmbH, established in 1868 and headquartered in Dortmund, Germany, is a leading global manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and liquid food industries. Their comprehensive product portfolio includes bottle filling machines, can fillers, pasteurizers, labeling machines, and packaging systems, designed to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and innovation in production processes. KHS operates multiple production sites worldwide, including facilities in India, USA, Mexico, Brazil, and China, and maintains numerous sales and service centers to support its international clientele.
More flexibility, efficiency and speed: with its Innokeg AF-C Transversal the KHS Group provides a sophisticated setup that washes and racks up to 500 kegs an hour. Thanks to its single central conveying segment the system is particularly compact and perfectly accessible. If required, it can adjust to different formats fully automatically.
Experience the future of the beverage industry close up with KHS: at drinktec from September 12 to 16 the engineering company will be presenting its latest machine and packaging systems.
Within the space of just three years, Coca-Cola in Germany has invested around 50 million euros in one of its biggest plants in Mannheim. KHS has contributed a returnable glass line to the project – one that also manages highly complex sorting tasks.
Trendy craft beers, lifestyle beverages such as hard seltzer, plus wine, sparkling wine, still water and soft drinks: the range of beverages the Innofill Can C can filler from KHS can process is vast.
In just a few years Argentinian brewery CCU has increased its market share to 33% – thanks to its bold commitment to the beverage can. With a filler and two turnkey lines KHS demonstrates that the company was right to place its trust in such a competent assistant.
Subsidiary Aquamark invests in economical, resource-conserving Nature MultiPack system from KHS. French retail chain E.Leclerc has an ambitious target: to significantly reduce the amount of packaging material used for its own brands. It thus began looking for an environmentally-friendly alternative to classic shrink film for its water brand Marque Repère.
A trust lasting more than 35 years: KHS recently commissioned a new non-returnable PET line for Israeli beverage producer Tempo Beverages under very special circumstances – and in doing so combined its latest-generation stretch blow molding technology with a filler for the very first time.
Simple conversion for great flexibility: the new packaging alternative from KHS, that wraps beverage cans in paper instead of film, can also be retrofitted to existing Innopack machines manufactured by the Dortmund systems supplier. Customers can either opt for more flexibility by switching between film and paper packaging as required or permanently switch to paper.
Where breweries were once a fixed feature of inner cities all over the world, today more and more companies are abandoning their confined urban premises in favor of the surrounding countryside. Here, they have room for expansion – and for new and highly flexible filling and packaging technology from KHS.
From April 26 to 29 the KHS Group will be presenting its entire portfolio of modern filling technology and environmentally-friendly packaging systems at Anuga FoodTec in Cologne, Germany. With its efficient InnoPET BloFill ACF-L block system the systems provider looks to the future of aseptic filling.