Project Overview

Our management team delivered the complete dismantling, seaworthy packaging and international relocation of a full 50,000 CPH Sidel canning line from a leading UK beverage manufacturer to an independent beverage producer in Dubai. The entire line was removed, packaged and loaded into 36 containers within 23 days, forming part of the client's wider facility upgrade programme running in parallel at the UK site.

The project required precise coordination between two simultaneous workstreams, the line removal and the live facility upgrade & ensuring both were executed without conflict or disruption. Post-project aftercare included the sourcing and arrangement of spare parts for the receiving facility in Dubai.

Scope of Work

Project Planning & Parallel Workstream Coordination The removal of a 50,000 CPH full canning line from a live manufacturing environment, running simultaneously alongside a major line upgrade programme, required detailed upfront planning and constant coordination. Our management team worked closely with the client's wider project team to integrate both workstreams — ensuring the removal programme did not impact the upgrade works and that sequencing, access and resources were aligned throughout.

Mechanical & Electrical Dismantling The team executed the full mechanical and electrical dismantling of the complete Sidel canning line — covering all equipment from the start to the end of the line including filling, seaming, pasteurising, conveying, labelling, palletising and all associated infrastructure. All components were systematically disconnected, catalogued and prepared for containerised international export.

Seaworthy Packaging & Container Loading The full line was packaged to seaworthy standards across 36 containers — engineered to protect all components throughout the ocean freight journey from the UK to Dubai. Container loading was carefully sequenced to support logical reassembly at the destination site, with fragile and critical components given additional protection throughout.

International Transport & Export Coordination Complete logistics chain from the UK facility to the receiving site in Dubai, managing container sequencing, export documentation and freight coordination to ensure all 36 containers arrived in the correct condition and order for the reinstallation team.

Spare Parts Aftercare Following project completion and delivery to Dubai, our team arranged the sourcing and procurement of spare parts required by the receiving facility — ensuring the client had the components needed to operate and maintain the line at the new site.

Project Summary

Equipment Sidel Full Canning Line — 50,000 CPH

Scope Mechanical & Electrical Dismantling, Seaworthy Packaging, Container Loading, International Relocation, Spare Parts Aftercare

Containers 36 containers

Duration 23 days — full line removal

Origin United Kingdom — Leading Beverage Manufacturer

Destination Dubai — Major Global Beverage Producer

Project Context Delivered in parallel with client's live facility upgrade programme

Capability Demonstrated

This project demonstrates the ability to execute a high-speed, large-scale international line relocation under real operational pressure — managing a full canning line removal in 23 days while a parallel upgrade programme ran simultaneously at the same facility. The combination of engineering dismantling, export logistics, containerisation at scale and post-project aftercare reflects the management Vertex brings to complex international asset relocation projects.