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Technology centre for Dortmund

The new Technology Center has a floor area of about 1,000 square meters spread over two stories, and is linked to an existing Training Center.  Theoretical training courses and practical training on the ‘nuts and bolts’ therefore complement one another outstandingly.  The cutting-edge communication systems are used and are linked directly to the KHS network.

Within the KHS Group, KHS in Dortmund is the competence center for cleaning and pasteurizing technology, conveyor technology, and for labeling and inspection technology.  Appropriate equipment for these areas of activity can be found within the Technology Center.  Whether rotary conveyor, a labeling machine equipped with different labeling modules, the functional bottle washer model, the empty bottle inspection machine, or the foreign substance inspector – everything is provided.

Customers from all over the world are invited by KHS to take part in comprehensive training programs in the new Technology Center.  Particularly when new investments are made in complex KHS solutions, advance training of employees ensures high machine and system efficiency from the commissioning stage onward.  The focus for KHS is to relay the maximum amount of information while giving individual attention to every single course participant.  The plan is therefore to keep training groups small in order to maximize the benefit for each individual.

In the future, open events will be held in the Technology Center, and a list of these will be found in an events program designed especially to meet customer requirements. At the same time, it will be possible to hold individual training courses for individual companies in the beverage, food, and non-food sectors.  In addition to seminars aimed at special segments such as adhesive-pressure labeling, for example, courses are also offered that are designed to provide a general overview of a particular area.  An example of this is seminars, which explicitly present the full range of options offered by labeling technology today.  The target group for these ‘overview seminars’ not only includes technicians – especially in the field of labeling technology – but also the staff responsible for marketing.

What is more, the Technology Center will also be a test center in the truest sense of the word.  For example, if a company intends to introduce a new type of PET bottle into its product line, test runs can be carried out within the rotary conveyor relating to the conveying behavior, possible conveyor throughput, material stress, etc.  If a new style label should be involved, the interaction of label, labeling machine, container, adhesive, etc. can easily be tested.  Overall, everything that can be tested using existing machine technology can be tested at the Technology Center.  This ensures that the company in the beverage, food, or non-food sector that has placed the order ultimately achieves maximum machine availability in practice with the highest quality processing results.

The Dortmund Technology Center outstandingly complements the already existing technology center at KHS in Bad Kreuznach.  Here, the focus is on the fields of rinsing, filling, and capping/seaming technology for bottles and cans, filtration, beverage blending technology, high gravity brewing systems, and flash pasteurizing and deaeration systems.

Besides training within the technology centers, KHS also provides comprehensive training options and programs at all its production locations worldwide.  In addition to its other German manufacturing plants located in Kriftel, Kleve, Bad Arolsen, Hamburg, and Niederzissen, KHS also maintains production facilities abroad in Brazil, U.S.A., Mexico, India, and China.