The world of bottling is just a few clicks away. Since late April, the new Sidel Group’s website at www.sidel.com has been featuring its full range of solutions for packaging liquid foods in PET bottles, glass bottles or cans. The site is packed with information, offers advice and company contacts, all in an interactive environment.

Interactive design better serves customers

The website is designed to give users easy access to practical information about packaging all types of liquid foods. Users simply select the liquid to be packaged – water, CSDs, beer, juice, tea and isotonic drinks, dairy products or other foods – and the new Group’s complete offering, from package production to project engineering and palletizing packs of products, is immediately available.

Customers can easily find their commercial and services contacts at all Sidel locations in some thirty countries. They can also send requests. Information about solutions available at each location will soon be published online in the country-specific language. The @sso and MyServices portals allow customers with a login ID and password to go online and order spare parts, consult technical manuals and research all available services to optimize the operation of their equipment.

Visitors will also find the latest news about trends in beverage markets, consumption and advances in packages and packaging equipment.

Site navigation is designed to be flexible and interactive. Links enable users to research a specific subject and move easily from page to page. Brand pages include links to machines that connect users to information about applications and services.

New group, new site

In late 2005, the merger of Sidel and Simonazzi resulted in the new integrated Group built around five specialized brands: Sidel™ for blow molding, coating and aseptic filling, Simonazzi™ for filling, Alfa™ for labeling, Gebo™ for conveying, and Cermex™ for secondary packaging. Complete packaging lines, machines and services along with industry technologies, lines of business and innovations are all featured on the website.

Over 100 types of equipment are presented with their features, advantages and technical description. Related links allow users to research additional or alternative solutions.

The site also traces the new Group’s history, presents its management team, describes Sidel’s primary lines of business and offers the latest news about current projects, innovations and participation in industry trade shows.

Currently available in English, the site will soon be available in Spanish and Chinese as well.

The new Sidel Group is one of the world’s leaders in solutions for packages and equipment for packaging liquid foods. It employs 5,000 people in some thirty countries with a 2005 sales figure of 1.1 billion euros. Sidel is one of Tetra Laval’s three industry groups.