Grupo Petrópolis performs first bottling of beer Itaipava in 600 ml bottle in your unit of Itapissuma (PE)

The Itapissuma (PE) of the Grupo Petrópolis, Brazil's second largest brewery, held its first bottling of beer Itaipava in 600 ml bottle. The new plant will have the capacity to produce 600 million liters per year. Are being invested R $ 600 million, with the creation of approximately 1,000 direct jobs when the plant is in full operation. The investment covers infrastructure, recruitment and staff training, and initial operation of the unit.
With German technology, the new unit of Grupo Petrópolis enables bold targets of productivity and use of resources and raw materials. Only with the equipment of company Krones AG is possible, for example, achieve the goal of 3.3 litres of water usage for each pint of beer, just proportion achieved by international factories industry tip. Are two lines of production (bottles and cans), with a dozen different steps, such as: a line of 62 thousand bottles per hour; a line of 128 thousand cans/h; a fermentation cellar with 18 tanks with capacity of 9 thousand hectolitres; and a wine cellar with 12 tanks of 3600 hectolitres.
Production in Itapissuma will circulate from nine distribution centres already in operation, in: Caruaru, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Petrolina, Garanhuns (PE); Maceió and Arapiraca (AL); João Pessoa and Ducks (PB); Natal (RN).