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Packaging
After pasteurisation the bottles are conveyed to the labeller where the label is applied and the date code ink jetted onto the neck of the bottle.
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The bottles then go to a tray loading machine where a cardboard tray is formed round 12 bottles.
The tray of bottles is the shrink wrapped. This involves passing a loose sleeve of plastic film round the pack and then passing it through a heat tunnel which shrinks the plastic onto the pack creating a firm block of 12 bottles.
The shrink wrapped trays are collated automatically by a palletiser onto pallets holding 80 trays of beer.
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Finally the pallet is wrapped in a sleeve of cling film and despatched to the brewery.
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