The Lindley Corporation used the latest technologies as part of a modernization project for its production plant, including the MOVIGEAR® mechatronic drive system.
The MOVIGEAR® mechatronic drive system is extremely energy efficient. The significant saving of cable material was another benefit of the installation for Inca Kola in Peru.
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The Peruvian company, Lindley Corporation S. A, was founded over a hundred years ago and its success story with Inca Kola continues to this day. The yellow soft drink has been able hold its position over other brands for decades. Besides Inca Kola, these days the Lindley Corporation S. A. also bottles Coca-Cola and other soft drinks and juices for the Peruvian market. Lindley achieves a production volume of over 45,000 bottles every minute with 9 bottling plants across the country. The Peruvian bottler has been using SEW-EURODRIVE gearmotors for many years.
A project to upgrade its production plants commenced in 2009. We recognized that the MOVIGEAR® mechatronic drive concept was the ideal solution for the new plant that Lindley was about to establish. As a result, the MOVIGEAR® mechatronic drive system was installed in many of the conveyor lines of Coca-Cola's official bottler in Peru. The MOVIGEAR® mechatronic drive system is not just energy efficient, it can also save significant amounts of cable material during installation.
Tobias Nittel, industry manager at SEW-Eurodrive, explains: “The individual components may be a bit more expensive than conventional solutions. But these products provide the customer with clear added value that quickly translates into financial benefits."
The Lindley Corporation completed the first modernization project in the port city of Callao in the fall of 2009. This is where it constructed a new hall for a beverage production line. We installed 53 units of the MOVIGEAR® SNI mechatronic drive system with six decentralized MOVIFIT® SNI drive control units on the glass line in order to transport crates. This allowed Lindley to save about 60% of bulk cable in the installation, compared with the traditional solution with frequency inverters in the control cabinet.
For this first project, Lindley used the SEW drives in the dry area. Their use extended from depalletizing empty crates to unpacking and repacking all the way to palletizing the filled crates. Empty and filled crates with twelve one-liter glass bottles are transported throughout this process. This meant that this plant, part of the Lindley Corporation S. A. modernization project, was the first MOVIGEAR® project in South America.
Lindley recorded significant energy savings in the first year of production following this project and was extremely satisfied with the simple installation. So, the producer of Inca Kola has since relied on our drive solutions with MOVIGEAR®. In 2010, together with the OEM Sidel, we installed additional systems in the Inca Kola plants.
These projects involved complete transport lines for bottles and crates. Lindley was extremely satisfied with SEW drives in the dry area as part of the first modernization project. As a result, the bottle transport in the wet area was also constructed in these lines, using the tried and tested MOVIGEAR® technology. A new water bottling plant was developed in 2011. To date, over 500 MOVIGEAR® units have been installed for the Lindley Corporation in Peru.
Customer request
Energy efficiency and simple installation were key factors for the Lindley Corporation as part of the plant modernization for the beverage line.
Our solution
The new, mechatronic MOVIGEAR® drive concept was the optimal solution for Lindley to achieve their energy efficiency requirements. During installation, the significant 60% reduction in cable material proved to be an additional advantage.
As a bottler, we are part of Coca-Cola's global system. The company has clear goals with regard to where it wants to be in 2020, the "20-20 project". One of these goals is...
... energy efficiency. Plants must be optimized in every conceivable manner in relation to their impact on the environment and efficiency, especially with regard to water and energy consumption. We are fully aware of the global necessity to save energy and it is part of our corporate policy. Our corporate guidelines document our intention to take responsibility for the environment. We decided to make larger investments as a matter of course, which was not easy at the start, but which everyone considered to be important. There was naturally still doubt as to whether the investments would pay off. We are now convinced of the benefits and the additional investments in other plants, in which our conveying systems are being equipped with MOVIGEAR® drives.
The first project in our plant in Callao clearly demonstrated that we had made a very smart investment, as well as the benefits that were possible. Along with saving energy, which was our main motivation for this project, the reliable MOVIGEAR® technology also allowed for simple installation, easier and less expensive cabling, and a reduced number of control cabinets. We now understand that this is a profitable way to invest in our company while achieving our environmental goals.
How do you measure the improvements with regard to the environmental compatibility of your plants?
We use a management consultancy. We also use the plant in Callao as a prototype to calculate our CO2 footprint. And this will be extended to our other plants.
As a representative of Lindley, are you satisfied with the solutions that SEW-EURODRIVE developed for the materials handling market?
I am absolutely satisfied. Our experiences were positive in every respect. We have seen that materials handling technology is no longer as complicated as it used to be. The MOVIGEAR® units are reliable and precisely meet our requirements for the speed of the automated plants.
This investment has accelerated your progress into the future. The international trend is heading towards the replacement of conventional drives with average efficiency with high-efficiency drives. However, MOVIGEAR® surpasses all others with its energy efficiency. You can claim to be the first in (North and South) America to conclude this kind of agreement.
Yes, that’s right. We are convinced of this matter and so, only last year, completed the construction of a similar plan in Trujillo. This major plant was also equipped with the complete MOVIGEAR® technology and the energy consumption was well below the estimates.
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