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• a Videojet date coder that prints lot and date code information on each bottle label “In our manual bottling mode, we needed a crew of about 28 people,” says Perkins. “Now it’s more like three one to take empty bottles from their reshippers and place them on the conveyor leading into the rinser, one to put filled, capped, and labeled bottles back into the reshippers, and one to palletize the reshippers.” In addition to greatly reducing the amount of hand labor required to get bottles out the door, the 14-station rotary filler runs at a steady 35 bottles/min when 750-mL bottles are in production. Previously the top speed on that size was 27/min. And, says Perkins, a 375-mL bottle is also in the mix, and when that bottle is being filled the output is more like 50/min.