Patent ID: 8453419

Claim:
Method for blow molding or stretch blow molding and filling sterile containers made from preforms, in particular plastic bottles, in a container treatment machine having blow molds in a blow module, comprising transferring the preforms from a heating device via transport devices into the blow molds, performing a main sterilization treatment of the preforms at a treatment star in a treatment chamber between the heating device and the blow module in a clean room environment, obtaining a sterile state of the preforms during the main sterilization treatment by performing the main sterilization treatment with gaseous medium and/or with electric beams and by permanently introducing a sterile air flow into the treatment chamber, and blowing off or extracting air from the treatment chamber via exhaust air boxes surrounding preform transfer regions, shaping the preforms into the containers in the blow molds, transporting the containers from the blow molds to a filling machine, performing an after-sterilization treatment of the containers as a precaution and during short resident time with a gaseous and/or liquid medium and/or electronic beams in a single after-sterilization module before placing the containers in the filling machine, filling the containers.