OCME’s success in Saudi Arabia Water Market

OCME S.r.l. from Parma Italy, a world leader in packaging, filling, handling and palletising systems for the consumer products industry, have announced that they will open a new branch in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as the demand for their machinery, particularly in the water market is experiencing considerable growth.

OCME’s first success in the Saudi Water market was with the Makkah Water Company, who purchased a new bottling line that would handle 330ml to 1.5 litre bottle capacities.

The line included four tri-bloc Hydra N80 level fillers with air conveyors, bundle and pack conveyors and several Altair N50 wraparound packers with downstream Perseus Palletisers. 

An additional two tri-bloc Hydra filler machines were also supplied to be fitted to existing lines. The lines are currently running with output speeds from 40,000bph to 50,000bph.

Hana Water commissioned OCME to install three new complete lines as part of their expansion in their Buraydah factory. The line included the Hydra N120 filler which has a speed of 120,000bph on 330ml and 1.5L bottles. The line also has Sagitta labellers; Gemini S60 combined wraparound and shrink wrappers, an Orion HM2 palletiser with a stretch wrapper and conveyors for loose bottles, bundles and pallets.

More recently OCME has installed complete lines in other Saudi water companies such as the installation of two high speed filling and packaging lines for the Ai-Qassim Health Water Company, which has speeds of 40,000 to 50,000bph.

The company offers water in two size bottles and produces more than 210 million litres of bottled water per year.

OCME plan to open their new office in Jeddah beginning 2012 to service their Middle East customers and provide them with direct after sales service, spare parts and specialised engineers.