Compressor helps bottle the bubbles for Buxton
29 Mar 2000
As well as the still version of the UK's top brand of mineral water. But the compressed air equipment supplied by Ecoair UK to the Buxton Mineral Water Company's bottling plant has nothing to do with the actual gas content of the water. The air from the oil-free compressors is used either as 8bar machine air across all five of the Buxton bottling lines or, boosted to 40bar, for PET bottle blowing on three of the lines, including a new 3l sized still water bottle.
Dry oil-free air is a prerequisite for the bottling process as laid down by Buxton's French parent company Perrier Vittel. Three T-series Ecoair compressors, installed and maintained by Kent-based Air Care UK, each supply 23.8m3/min (840cfm) of oil-free air, which is dried in dessicant dryers by using the heat from the compressors.
