Following the success of Procter & Gamble’s Sunny Delight fruit drink product, APV has won a contract to extend Gerber Soft Drinks’ Bridgwater plant in Somerset, UK, where the juice is manufactured.
APV installed the original plant for Gerber earlier this year, but this proved insufficient to meet consumer demand. APV was asked to supply a further production line, comprising all the process phases from blending through to pasteurisation.
With flexibility a key issue to responding to market demand, the new line has been designed to operate at different capacities so that an increase in throughput is easily achieved.
The plant is fully automated, combining APV’s hygiene and control solutions. As part of Siebe Group, APV has access to a variety of control systems, including Wonderware In-Touch software, which was selected by Gerber.