Bisleri

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Today, a lot of things are available in the market – yes, water too. One of the best-packaged drinking water bottles available in the market is Bisleri’s. Bisleri is one of the best names in drinking water brands. They sell packaged drinking water. Almost all of us know about this brand. It is also available at each and every grocery shop. Bisleri is known for its quality. I got a chance to visit the Bisleri plant. The main objective of this industrial visit was to give first-hand industrial exposure to the engineering students who want to propel their careers in the automation industry. To make them understand how a brand like Bisleri carries out its manufacturing activities. This industrial visit was directed towards understanding Bisleri’s manufacturing process and infrastructural competency.

Bisleri’s Legacy:

A brand that pioneered the concept of mineral water and bottled water in India and can be identified by its distinct green label, Bisleri, today, is a household name. Bisleri has 135 manufacturing plants and a wide distribution and retail network pan India. Its headquarters are in Mumbai, India. Bisleri aims to continue its legacy by innovating its products and packaging category. Bisleri began the Aqua Green Revolution with an ambitious dream in mind. It dreamed that every person in India, irrespective of geographical barriers or economic limitations, has uninterrupted access to purified and fortified drinking water. Bisleri continues to innovate constantly, urged by the goals of the Aqua Green Revolution to provide every Indian easy access to purified drinking water and to support initiatives that rejuvenate the Earth’s natural sources of pristine drinking water.

Before the packaged water reaches consumers, it goes through a 10-step quality process:

1. Water Treatment Section

First, the water is carefully collected from different sources like rivers or underground, etc. The collected water then undergoes a quality check. A lot of quality tests are performed to check whether the source is good or not. Only then it is considered fit for purification.

2. Ozonisation

This process helps kill the harmful bacteria present in water. Bisleri has come up with a unique, highly reliable ozonization process, i.e., known as double ozonization. This process is at least 50 times more powerful and 3000 times faster than the chlorination process when it comes to killing harmful bacteria. No purification process is as effective as ozonation in killing 100% bacteria. After this step, the water undergoes a double filtration process.

3. Sand Filter

In this step, the unwanted particles are removed from the water. The unwanted particles are removed up to 30 microns.

4. Carbon Filter

This is the second step of the double filtration process. The Carbon filter helps get rid of color, odor, and harmful pesticides if any, and a few more quality tests are done.

5. Reverse Osmosis

This water purification process helps remove soluble solids from water. Although it removes excess minerals and salts from the water, sometimes, essential minerals that are good for health are also removed. But the good thing is that the next step takes care of this problem!

6. Mineralisation

It is a very critical step; at this stage, the right amount of vital minerals such as potassium and magnesium are added to the water, which makes it healthy and gives the water a sweet taste. Magnesium is an essential mineral to maintain bone health. Magnesium is also good for the heart. It also lowers the risk of diabetes and provides relief from headaches. Potassium lowers the risk of stroke, lowers blood pressure, and reduces the formation of kidney stones, etc.

7. Micron-Filtration

At this stage of purification, the smallest micron particles, which are up to 0.45 microns, are removed from the water.

8. Re-ozonisation

When the water is ready to go into the bottles, again ozonization process is performed to ensure and maintain the purity and quality of water.

9. Careful Bottling

Bisleri water is bottled and packed using high-quality and modern equipment. Most Bisleri bottles are blown on-site to avoid any external contamination. The bottle is made using a preform that is fed into the mold, blown & stretched to its size at 100 degrees Celsius. Blowing at such a high temperature ensures that any harmful bacteria if at all present, are killed. Leaving no chance for contamination, the packed bottles again go through the ozonization which ensures the highest safety standards are met.

10. Final Quality Control

Every bottle has a code printed stating the batch number, date, time and manufacturing location. Stringent quality control checks are done for each and every batch so that Bisleri`s quality standards are met. However, the quality check process does not end here. Along with the 10-step quality check process, it goes through 114 quality tests!

Manufacturing of Bottles: The bottles at Bisleri are mostly manufactured at the Bisleri plant itself to avoid any possible contamination. Bisleri uses only Grade 1 PET bottles for its products. PET is safe for storing water and can be 100% recycled after use. The bottles are made using preforms, which go through a blowing process where the bottles attain the desired shapes and sizes. These bottles are then used for filling the purified water and are then mechanically sealed and packaged.

Filling Section: Bottles are rinsed with ozonization water then filled and capped with ozonized caps.

Labeling: A pre-cut glued label is rolled with the bottle.