A complete line is more than a set of machines: the capacities have to match each other, the bottle flow has to fit the space you have, and someone has to be responsible when something does not fit. We design, supply, install and commission the whole line — from water treatment through to palletizing — under one contract.
A line is only as fast as its slowest machine, so the first step is not to pick a BPH figure but to find the bottleneck deliberately. Very often the filler sets the pace, but labelling, packing or palletising can cap the line if they are bought to a lower specification, and undersized water treatment or air supply will hold everything back on the day of commissioning. The honest way to size a line is to fix four things first — product, bottle, label and pack format — because those four decisions shape the equipment list more than any other choice.
Two boundaries cause most disputes later, and both are worth fixing in writing before the contract: the scope of supply, meaning what the buyer provides and what we provide — building, and utilities such as compressed air, steam, chilled water and power, plus local labour — and the acceptance criteria, meaning the speed-test conditions, the duration of the test and the reference bottle used. We would rather settle those on paper in week one than discover them on the shop floor in month six.