Soda Water or Aerated Water
(A Cottage Industry with small Investment & Huge Profits)

In the Indian climatic conditions, long, humid & hot summer season produces immense requirement of soda, lemon, lemonade & juices. So Cold Drinks, Soda Drink Business provides a wide opportunity to grow and flourish with developed machinery and production methods, lesser efforts and manpower. this industry can be made highly profitable with expert supervision and suggestions from time to time. You can make this more profitable.

Soda Water is generally of two kinds:

• Plain Soda Water(Aerated Soda Water)
• Flavored Soda Water(Aerated Beverages)

Plain Soda is most popular in this segment. Carbonic Acid Gas(CO₂) & Sodium bi-carbonate solution under pressure is mixed with pure water to form plain soda water.

Flavored soda water contains flavors of lemon, ginger(Masala Soda), milk rose, mango, pineapple, falsa, etc. in syrup base and this preparation is also made using Carbonic Acid Gas(CO₂) under pressure.

Now the question arises what are the requirements, equipments, machinery and other material, the formula for preparations? From where would you get this?

Project Report

	Small	Medium	Large
Filling Machine	Bottle Filling Machine, 3 Machine	3', 6' (Half Handy Machine)	6', 8' (Full Handy Machine)
Washing Machine	Single side Motorized Machine	Double side Motorized Machine	Double side Motorized Machine
CO2 Cylinder	9 Kg	9 Kg / 18 Kg	18 Kg / 22 Kg
Bottles	Up to 250 Crates	250-500 Crates	500-1000 Crates
Essence	According to Consumptions	According to Consumptions	According to Consumptions
Pan/Tub/LPG Cylinder	As per the Requirement	As per the Requirement	As per the Requirement
Crate	According to Requirement	According to requirement	According to requirement
Labour	2	5	10
Water Putifier	On line Water Fitter	Filler / Ro System	RO System
Accomodation for Syrup, Filling Room, etc.	100-200 Square Feet	300-500 Square Feet	Approximately 1000 Square Feet
Money
Costing	Cost Price RS. 30/- Crate, Selling Price 72/-per Crate, Profit Rs. 42/- per Crate.

Following are the reasons that cause fermentation and thus, are to be avoided:-

SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM:- Prevention is better than cure. You should insist on preventing the cause of fermentation. Following points should be kept in mind:

• The cleanliness of the soda water factory is very important
• Bottles should be washed first by warm water and then by pottasium per-magnatesolution and finally with fresh water
• Syrup should not be prepared in excess nor it should be stored(particularly in summers), it should be prepared according to the requirement of the day
• Aged (kept over night) and fresh syrup should not be mixed. By doing so all the preparations are destroyed, so it is better to throw aged or old syrup.

Washing of the Soda Water Bottle

• Add 100 ml of T.poll in 250 ml of water. Pour this solution in the bottle & keep the bottle for some time so that the deposited sweet solution of previous filling is washed out.
• Bottle should be washed with potassium per magnate and similar disinfectant chemical so that the bottle may get free from any infection.
• Before washing with the potassium per magnate wash the bottle with warm water.
• Washed the bottle with single or double sided motorized bottle washing machine.
• Inspect the bottle thoroughly during washing & before filling (if hairline crack develop during the uses, them please reject the bottle) 

Bottle Filling, Market, Advertisement 

• Warm the water to dissolve the sugar added in water.
• Cool the headed sweet water
• Filter the cool sweet water through clothed sieve
• Esence should be of good company like Bush, RC, Three Bird, Nardone, Tomco, Marson, Blue Bird, Mohan, Jani, Mayur, etc.
• Pour 50 ml of this essence solution in each bottle
• Add water up to eye level
• Infuse CO₂ gas by machine & chapa at 75-100 LBS pressure. Bottle get sealed by itself by glass ball as gas pressure from inside (If not, Please replace the washer and repeat the process again).
• Now the bottle in the crate is ready for supply.
• Before sale put attractive label on the bottle. You can supply the filled bottle by Tempo. lorry, etc., to fast food center, bar, restaurant, general store, pan shop, etc., and bring back empty bottles.
• Use printed bottles, plastic film coated bottles with your own logo to popularize your brand.
• Cover the mouth with cap, plastic coated film or alluminium foil.
• If qaulity "(color, flavor, frangance, taste) is unparallel the market will grow automatically. Bottle filling plant and retailers should advertise the bottle by neon bottl/ board, umbrella, hanging cods bottle, banner, pamplets, slide in picture hall or on the cable etc.
• Retailers should be advised to cool the bottle chilled for the best taste.

Retailers should open the bottle with opener

To give whistling sound retailers should open the bottle with opener in tube of flexible material.

To View the Flow Chart of the process Click Here.