Canterbury Insdustry

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31101, 2 July 1966, Page 12

Canterbury Insdustry

In the Byron street factory, used empty bottles are brought into the factory yard, sorted, and fed to the beginning of the bottling line. The first process is washing and sterilising, the bottles passing through about four tanks containing water at different temperatures and with different strengths of detergent Brushes clean both the outside and the inside of the bottles, which are then checked for chips and cracks. Inspectors change every halfhour to avoid tiredness that could lead to an unsatisfactory bottle getting through.

injected from cylinders of gas), other machines attach the crown caps and shake the bottles so the syrup and soda Bottles then pass through a water are mixed, labelling machine to the packers who put them in cases. Own Well The water which goes to make the soda is sterilised and filtered, and it comes from Ballin’s own well, 400 ft underground. The syrup starts its life at the sugar room, where heavy syrups of cane sugar and water are mixed