56 BREWING & BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS Milestone Brewery, based near Newark in Nottingham, is a craft brewery producing fine flavoursome ales, winning many prestigious awards over the years. Milestone Brewery was looking to improve the efficiency of its final stage of filtration on the bottling line. The key requirement was to ensure that sediment, particulate and beer spoilage organisms, were removed from the beers. The solution needed to offer longevity of cartridge life coupled with absolute spoilage organism removal at this final critical stabilisation stage. Fileder visited the site to see the process and specified the SPECTRUM PPP at 1 micron, for cost effective particulate and bio-burden removal, and the SPECTRUM PPPES 0.45 micron membrane cartridge, for absolute removal of beer spoilage organisms, that could reduce shelf life or affect the high quality of Milestone’s bottled beers. The longevity and cleanliness of the filters and housings are maintained with a caustic and peracetic acid cleaning regime. “We work closely with Fileder so that our products meet the highest standards demanded and to ensure the smooth running of the bottling line and associated filtration systems, leading to the perfect pint,” says a representative of Milestone. “Fileder has demonstrated a strong working knowledge of our applications and critical requirements and back this up with their pricing structure and stock availability.” Established for over 3 decades, Fileder Filter Systems supplies process filtration and water treatment products throughout the UK. A wide range of filtration and water treatment products are available to order for next day delivery, including carbon blocks, pleated and depth cartridges, housings and RO systems. IC Filling Systems specialises in the supply of table-top semi- automatic labelling machines suitable for self-adhesive labels on round and square bottles and also paper labels with cold glue on cylindrical containers. The self-adhesive machines are suitable to apply both front and back labels and can be supplied with a pneumatic hot date/lot stamper unit. It is now possibile to label square bottles with full wraparound labels, and bottles that require label orientation by means of a base spotting notch for high end products such as spirit bottles with embossing or crests on the bottles which require the labels to be aligned in specific areas of the bottles accurately. This is especially advantageous where a high-value products such as spirits are used, and consumers and retailers demanding more and more sophisticated information on product packaging. The latest innovation is an autoloading / unloading labeller for applying full wraparound labels to beer bottles, adding an extra level of automation to the semi-automatic beer bottling line process. Table-top labelling machine specialists www.fileder.co.uk For more information visit: www.icfillingsystems.com For more information visit: Fileder supplies filtration for final stages of beer bottling line Showcase BOTTLING & CANNING EQUIPMENT 56_Layout 1 13/08/2017 11:56 Page 1