True Intelligence at drinktec 2025!
Artificial intelligence combined with human expertise and experience! This is our guiding principle at HEUFT when developing new technologies for simply more safety, quality, efficiency and sustainability in the filling and packaging process.
Cleverly combined with proven methods, we use our own AI in a targeted way to push the boundaries of detection. From glass-in-glass detection with pulsed X-rays and HEUFT reflexx A.I. to even deeper insights with a new level of judgement in the optical empty and full container inspection:
Experience truly intelligent new developments with us at the HEUFT stand B4 121/ 321 at drinktec 2025 in Munich – and many more solutions for more in-depth in-line quality inspection, flexible labelling and sustainable line optimisation. Our drinktec ticker will keep you constantly informed about the current trade fair highlights of the year. Take a deeper look!
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#11 // 30.06.2025
Winter and faulty bottles: Reject before infeed!
Winter bottles? Who already thinks about that in the middle of summer? But they can appear at any time in the reusable sector. Our infeed check module, which detects faulty empty containers already before the actual in-line inspection and reliably removes them from the production flow, is therefore highly recommended. Thanks to brightness compensation, it also increases the quality of the all-surface inspection of empty bottles made of green or amber glass in advance – and effectively protects against unnecessary mass rejections.
#10 // 26.06.2025
X-ray empty bottle inspector: Detection reliability in series
Still completely new at drinktec 2022, ready for series production at BrauBeviale 2023 and now already installed at the first customer's sites: the HEUFT InLine II IX starts up!
#9 // 23.06.2025
Glass in glass detection: Full “Kölsch” enjoyment!
“He drinks Reissdorf, she drinks Reissdorf” – without any regrets from distinctive relief glass bottles which are free from harmful glass splinters. This is because the HEUFT eXaminer II XOS recognises contaminated full bottles at the end of the returnable line in Cologne, where the cathedral city's most popular top-fermented beer is bottled.
#8 // 16.06.2025
Expert interview: Sustainability through AI!
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly relevant in the inspection of empty and full containers. In this interview, our X-ray expert Dirk Henschke explains how it helps to detect foreign bodies even better and prevent the waste of packaging and food.
#7 // 11.06.2025
Tethered cap inspection: no blind spots!
The EU Directive 2019/904 came into force last summer, making it mandatory to inspect tethered caps on disposable PET bottles. The HEUFT FinalView II CAP can be used to inspect the new bottle caps in a gapless and highly precise way.
#6 // 06.06.2025
Full container check and more: new tasks for the HEUFT ONE!
Additional operating modes, extended functionality, new machine connection: we have significantly expanded the range of applications for the HEUFT ONE. This means that the space-saving entry-level device can now be used not only for checking full containers, but also for container distribution, standstill and series fault detection, and for locating the source of fill level and closure faults, among other things.
#5 // 18.05.2025
Swing top bottles: Inspecting even between the closure wires!
A full-coverage all-surface inspection of empty swing-top bottles is not possible? Yes it is! With the specially further developed HEUFT InLine II-systems.
#4 // 21.05.2025
Entry-level EBI: space-saving empty bottle inspection
Simply retrofitting a modern empty bottle inspector? HEUFT makes this possible even in the most confined of spaces at SMEs such as the Raab private brewery in Hofheim in Lower Franconi, Germany.
#3 // 14.05.2025
Efficient sorting: Empties under control!
For an efficient sorting of empty bottles in a returnable line, you need the appropriate equipment. And the right know-how for a consistent sorting concept with an optimally coordinated line layout. HEUFT offers all this from one source!
#2 // 12.05.2025
Smart ACL bottle inspection: Simply covering everything!
Inspecting ACL empties all around without any blind areas is a real challenge. We at HEUFT face it right from the start.
#1 // 10.05.2025
Intelligent empty bottle inspection: Don't see over it!
Overpressed finishes are anything but harmless. Affected bottles should thus definitely be detected and rejected before they are filled and closed. HEUFT has specially adapted detection technologies to offer for this – and the right combination of artificial and human intelligence during image processing.