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How much theory do we actually need?When theory comes up against practice the outcome may well be a
measure of clarity. This was the case at the 25th International Plastics Technology Colloquium hosted by the nstitute for Plastics Process-ing, Aachen, Germany (IKV). This was the year when, for the fi rst time, stretch blow moulding of bottles featured in the Great Hall of the Eurogress in Aachen, a venue where the scientifi c developments and practical experiences of the automotive manufacturers normally take centre stage.
Two interesting presentations from the IKV line-up caught our attention. The fi rst, deliv-ered by Dipl.-Ing Thorsten Leopold, was on the subject of a promising approach to simulat-ing oxygen permeation in PET bottles. The second, from Dipl.-Ing.Karim Bahroun on the brightly illuminated plasma coating of PET, PLA and PP, revealed that there is still a gulf between theory and practice. For example, in the case of oxygen permeation, the interim results as regards theory and practice differed by a factor of 2.
Further research will surely enable the men of Aachen to succeed in aligning theory and practice, just as they have so often done before where a number of other plastics issues are concerned. I just wonder whether we in the PET industry are purely and simply tradesmen without any scientifi c background whatsoever? Have our successes come about solely as a result of performing endless tests? If it is true that the gulf between theory and practice is indeed wide, how much further forward we would be now, I wonder, if we, as the PET industry, had made a start years ago on supporting basic research?
How many trials and service life tests could we have saved our-selves? One wonders how much more weight could have been trimmed off the PET bottles by now had the wish expressed by the moderator, Dr. Ing. Klaus Hartwig of Nestle Waters, Vitell, France, to simulate the per-meability of a broad diversity of gases with a very wide range of barrier layers and stretch ratios been met.
Without doubt there are still many other PET topics that require a structured scientifi c study in order to further accelerate the rapid growth in PET bottles. After many decades of practical experience with PET we should at least give theory the chance to catch up.
Yours,
Alexander Büchler
EDITORIALdear readers,
Dr. Ing. Klaus Hartwig
of Nestlé Waters, Vitell,
France, moderator at
the IKV Colloquium
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3 Editorial4 Contents6 News32 Products34 PET bottles for food
and beverages36 PET bottles for
personal care 43 Patents
BUYER’S GUIDE37 Get listed!
BOTTLE MAKING
26 Four new lightweight neck designs
27 Lightweight bottles for hot fi lling
BOTTLING /FILLING28 “A bottle of Bisleri, please”30 On top of the world
REGIONAL MARKET REPORT10 Egypt - Part 214 Germany - Part 4
PREFORM PRODUCTION16 The Rapid Guide to Perfect
Preforms - Part 1018 Energy savings and
improving cost effi ciency 25 Manufacturing Advisory services -
PET case study
MARKET SURVEY21 Conveyors for preforms
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Sacmi reorganisation and executive appointments Vezio Bernardi made Managing Director of Sacmi Filling
Sacmi Imola, the Italian packaging and labelling equip-ment company, has announced a reorganisation of its business and the appointment of a new executive team. A new division – Sacmi Beverage – has been created and will combine the activities of Sacmi Filling, Sacmi Labelling, Sacmi Packaging and Sacmi Imola. What the company describes as a strategic devel-opment began in early 2009, with the acquisition by Sacmi Imola of a minority holding in Sacmi Filling and Labelling. The purchase was followed by investment in new storage facilities and produc-tion plant facilities amounting to more than €50 million. Sacmi Beverage integrates plant engineering and budgeting part and also coordinates the management administration of the four com-panies. Ireneo Orlandi is the senior director of Sacmi Beverage. Vezio Bernardi has been appointed to guide the transition stage. He previously held a senior position with Sacmi Imola Closure Division. Plant engineering manager Giovanni Nervo will have responsibility for operations management and co-ordination of the plant engineering product range that integrates the Division’s component companies companies’ products.
www.sacmi.com
25th international IKV Colloquium The 25th International Plastics Technology Colloquium
was held on 3 and 4 March 2010 in the Eurogress Aachen, Germany. With some 500 experts attending, the number of participants remained constant compared with 2008, despite the economic downturn. Participants represented the entire spectrum of the plastics industry and included raw materi-als manufacturers, machine and mould manufacturers and plastics processors plus their customers. Those taking part in Aachen came from 15 countries, with more than 250 companies and institutions represented. At its Jubilee Col-loquium, the IKV once again presented the latest research results, covering all the various different facets of plastics processing. The IKV highlighted the future prospects for plastics processing, under the strapline motto “Plastics tech-nology – looking ahead”. In the Part Design and Materials Technology Department, the latest development in the fi eld of plasma-based refi nement processes met with particular interest on the part of the attendees. In addition to the barrier coating of alternative materials such as polypropylene (PP) or polylactide (PLA), a new process variant was presented for the combined inner and outer coating of beverage bottles by the low-pressure process. The demonstration equip-ment developed specifi cally at the IKV allows a barrier layer system to be applied in a single process, where previously two separate processes were required. The result is greater cost effi ciency.
www.ikv-aachen.de
Amcor PET Packaging renamedFollowing the US$1.9 billion acquisition of parts of Alcan
Packaging by Amcor Ltd and subsequent company reorgani-sation, Amcor PET Packaging has been renamed Amcor Rigid Plastics.
Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, the renamed busi-ness group is one of seven operating units within its parent group. Amcor Rigid Plastics consists of Amcor PET Packag-ing; Bericap North America, a plastic closures joint venture between Amcor and the Bericap Group; and the plastics container unit of Alcan’s global pharmaceutical business. Bill Long, who had been president of Amcor PET Packaging, will head up the new business.
The company says that the new name and identity refl ects an expansion of its product range. Included in the acquisition were Alcan’s pharmaceutical rigid container busi-ness, which is a producer of containers made of PP, PE, and PET for over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, and other pharmaceutical needs. Amcor now owns Alcan’s extensive processing capabilities in stretch-blow, extrusion-blow, and injection blow moulding, along with expertise in multi-material processing. These resources will enable Amcor to move into new applications, materials and processes, the company said.
The acquisition adds approximately US$160 million in sales and 800 employees across six plants, located in Mil-lville, NJ, DesPlaines, IL, Bethlehem, PA, Youngsville, NC in the US and Cayey, Puerto Rico, and Diadema, Brazil. Amcor is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
www.amcor.com
New hotrunner factory in IndiaHotrunner technology company Mold-Masters announced
on March 17, 2010 that it has opened a new production facil-ity in Coimbatore, India. The company already has a global design centre in India, which was opened in December 2006.
Mold-Masters has had a presence in India since 1994, when it began selling and servicing its products in the country. It reported a signifi cant increase in sales after establishing a presence in the sub-continent. The new facility will enable the company to manufacture for the growing Indian market and to enhance its support for new and existing customers, with tech-nical service, application engineering and rapid spare parts delivery.
www.moldmasters.com
Sale of Equipolymers manufacturing facility in Italy
Equipolymers, the 50-50 joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company and Petroleum Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait, announced in March that it is to sell its pure tereph-thalic acid (PTA) and polyethylene terephthalate resins (PET) production facilities at its manufacturing site in Ottana, Sicily, Italy to a joint venture between Ottana Energia and Indorama. The company said it will continue to run its manufacturing, R&D and new technologies activities at Schkopau, Germany.
Ottana Energia, owned by Paolo Clivati, currently operates a 140 megawatt power and utilities plant on the Ottana manu-facturing site. Indorama is a global chemical producer of PTA, PET and polyester fi bres and operates facilities in Thailand, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and the USA. The Ottana facility currently employs around 120 people. The sale is expected to complete on June 1, 2010.
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Uses for recycled PETSince 2001 Petcore has commissioned an annual review of the European
PET bottle collection fi gures from PCI. We duly report to the press each year how many tonnes were collected and the percentage of recycled PET used to produce fi bre, sheet, and containers etc. In this column we give more details about these end uses. Fibre was the original outlet for recycled PET and it still consumes a very large tonnage. In 2001 144,000t of RPET (62% of all European supply) were used in fi bre applications whereas in 2008 363,000t of RPET (45% of European supply) was used in fi bre. Early uses of RPET were for fi bres in the higher dTex range such as staple fi bre for fi llings for duvets, ski jackets etc using the insulation properties of PET fi bre. Continuous development and improvement in RPET quality led to the production of polar fl eece fabric and outdoor wear made from fi ner fi bres spun from 100% RPET. Premium quality back packs, travel goods and computer cases are now made utilising recycled PET. RPET is also a major feedstock for non-wovens such as geotextiles, fi lters and wipes. RPET has often been the “unsung hero” in these fi bre outlets but this year it has been given full recognition. At the Winter Olym-pics in Vancouver, Coca Cola supplied their representatives with outdoor wear made from 100% RPET and Nike has announced that it is supplying 9 World Cup football teams in South Africa with offi cial strips made entirely from RPET. These teams’ replica strips will also be made from the same RPET-derived fabrics. Nike estimates it will use 275,000t of RPET in this application. 177,000t of RPET were used to produce clear sheet in 2008. The majority of this sheet was thermoformed to produce blisters, collation trays, clam shells and pun-nets to protect soft fruits and other contents. The sheet industry has long had the ability to extrude multi-layer sheet and this enabled them to sandwich an RPET layer between two outer layers of virgin PET particularly for food outlets. In 2001 just 16,000t of RPET were used to produce containers, almost all for non food. The passing of EU Regulation 282/2008 on recycled plastic materi-als and articles intended to come into contact with foods has meant that all EU member countries will allow RPET from approved plants to be used in food contact containers. Large and small brands used 163,000t of RPET in contain-ers in 2008. Strapping tape, the green bands that keep bricks and boxes fi rmly held on their transport pallets, has been a steady outlet for RPET. 88,000t were used in Europe in 2008.
The fi nal category in PCI’s review of end markets is in injection moulding/other outlets. These applications account for less than 20,000t /a of RPET at present and are very varied. The RPET can be fi lled with e.g. glass fi bre and injection moulded to form complex engineering components. It is also injection moulded to form the barrel of the Pilot B2P (bottle to pen). This clear cylinder is designed to look like a PET water bottle, complete with a label panel, a quality pen with the body made from 100% RPET.
A new application from Dymon Pallets Pty in Australia is a transport pallet moulded from a 25kg preform (big enough to contain a 10 year old child). The company estimates that in 2005 over 1 million timber pallets were made in the USA alone and RPET pallets could absorb the world’s production of RPET! It can be seen that RPET has outlets for every quality. The clear, higher grade pellets and fl akes are used by the food packaging industry and fl akes that haven’t been through the fi nal purifi cation process for food contact, or coloured fl akes fi nd a market in “hidden” and coloured applications. Moreover, there is continual research into RPET applications and RPET recovery techniques. Novel processes drive new applications for RPET. Some of the methods involve dissolving post consumer PET, treating post consumer and post indus-trial waste at high pressures and hot and cold temperatures to produce novel end products with novel properties. Although still in the early stages of develop-ment these innovations have the potential to improve our collection and recov-ery of Europe’s most recycled packaging polymer. Petcore is keen to support these developments and will help facilitate their growth.
Details of many of these end uses for RPET can be found in the Document Library by those who register with the Petcore website.
www.petcore.org
Global crisis puts Krones in the red
Krones AG, the beverage fi lling and packaging technology company, says that the global economic crisis made the 2009 business year the most diffi cult in the company’s 59 years of existence. Demand in the packaging machinery market fell worldwide by more than 25%. With the exception of China, all regions were affected by a signifi cant decline, particu-larly North and South America, and East-ern Europe and Russia. Order bookings at the Group fell 18% in 2009 compared with 2008, to €1,916 million. There was no discernible turnaround in clients’ order-ing until Q4, which showed an increase of 10% compared with the weak fourth quar-ter of 2008. Order backlog on 31 Decem-ber 2009 totalled €888 million (preceding year: €837 million). Consolidated sales in 2009 were 22% lower than the record year of 2008, totalling €1,865 million. The con-solidated result was a loss of €34.5 million. Krones does not anticipate any reversal of the sales trend until the fi rst half of 2010.
Despite the 2009 loss, the company increased free cash fl ow by fi ve per cent, to €83 million. As at December 31, 2009, Krones Group had no debts with banks and possessed liquid funds (net cash) amounting to more than €135 million (2008: €107 million). Krones says that its long-term growth prospects continue to be good, as the mega-trends are posi-tive for its chosen sector. The company is cautiously optimistic for 2010, anticipating a turnaround in the overall trend for the fi rst half of 2010, with an increase in sales during the 2010 business year of fi ve to 15% and a return to positive results.
www.krones.com
DAK Americas responds to patent infringement
DAK Americas LLC has announced that it is reviewing the Eastman Chemi-cal Company Patent Infringement com-plaint fi led against it on March 1, 2010. The complaint alleges infringement of three Eastman patents that represent a portion of Eastman’s IntegRex PET Technology. Hector Camberos, President and CEO of DAK Americas, said that the company respects intellectual property rights and intends a vigorous defence against the claims.
www.dakamericas.com
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Part 2Egypt
The second part of ‘Egypt’ shows us that it is not only beverages that are bottled in PET. Our report on Taba shows very neatly that PET is also de rigueur in the medical sector in Egypt. We give the two other major converters in the Land of the Pharaohs – namely, Marina Plast and Aquah Group – the chance to make their voice heard. After all, where would local reporting be if we didn’t let at least one of the big Colas have their say?
by Alexander
Büchler
Aquah GroupSalah Al Aquah, PresidentKarim Al Aquah, Vice PresidentFayek Shoukry, Group Technical Director
The company founder, Salah Al Aquah (right), allows the Aquah Group to keep on growing.
The expansion can’t be stopped - the photo shows the second Husky HyPET, which will be followed in a few days by the third. In front of the machine are (from left to right) Group Technical Director Fayek Shoukry, Vice President Karim Al Aquah and Alexander Büchler
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As early as 1974 the company founder, Salah Al Aquah, was selling, for his own account, single-stage Nissei ASB machines. In 1982 they were used to produce the fi rst PET jars and thus Salah Al Aquah produced the fi rst PET containers in Egypt. Even today he still supplies jars and bottles from 0.125l up to 20l for a very wide range of applications. In 1992 he established his El Aquah Group of Companies, where a key element of the business was the supply of preforms and bottles for the edible oil market. Today his empire includes eight companies making pre-forms, bottles resins and other plastic products. He pro-duces preforms and bottles for non-beverage applications and 450 million preforms for the beverage sector, of which 50% is for the CSD market. His business with the CSD market is growing by an above-average 30% per annum.
Every year he has bought a preform system - each with 72 cavities. In 2007 it was an Engel, in 2008 and 2009 it was Husky, and for 2010 another Husky is on the way in order to be able to respond to the growing demand. For the relatively near future he sees the adoption of the light-weight PCO 1881, especially for 1l and 2l bottles.
For three years his son Karim Al Aquah has worked with him in the business. As a trained electronics and tele-communications engineer his main task was to ensure that all aspects of the steadily growing business were operating in line with the latest technological standards. If he meets his old college friends they tend to talk about telecommuni-cation. He, on the other hand, is now more concerned with things like PCO and IV. His father now devotes more time to customer contacts. Hence father and son make a really well-rounded team.
Coca-Cola North and West AfricaEhab Afi fi , Technical Operations Manager
Alexander Büchler (left) and Ehab Afi fi , Technical Operations Manager Coca-Cola North and West Africa, talking about the new 0.4l Coca-Cola bottle. The meeting was organised by Sherif El Bakary, Manager of Sidel S.A.S.
Coca-Cola in Egypt
The Coca-Cola bottler in Egypt has recently introduced the 0.4l PET bottle. We spoke with Ehab Afi fi , Technical Operations Manager Coca-Cola North and West Africa, about the background to this project.
PETplanet: Mr Ehab Afi fi , you are the person responsi-ble for the technical aspects of bottling Coca-Cola in North and West Africa where the introduction of the PET bottle is concerned, are you not?
Mr Ehab Afi fi : That’s not exactly true. I have to look after all of the technical aspects, including glass and can fi lling.
PETplanet: So what is the main focus of your work?Mr Ehab Afi fi : We support the bottlers mainly in envi-
ronmental matters - how they can save water and reduce energy consumption, not only in the fi lling operation but also in the management offi ces or down the beverage dis-tribution chain.
PETplanet: Were environmental concerns the reasons that Coca-Cola introduced the 0.4l bottle?
Mr Ehab Afi fi : The reason has more to do with changes in consumer demand. There have been lifestyle changes and single-trip is the main driver now. And by single-trip I mean PET and cans.
PETplanet: You offer CSDs in 0.4, 1.0, 1.5 and 2l PET containers. Which size is the most popular?
Mr Ehab Afi fi : Good question!
PETplanet: With the newly-introduced 0.4l bottle the product has a shelf-life of 3 months. Which barrier technol-ogy do you use to achieve this shelf life?
Mr Ehab Afi fi : We are using our technology that has been tried and tested in South Africa. The monolayer PET package comes at a solid 28.7g with a properly stretched side wall providing an acceptable level of barrier for such a size container – quality control and consistent processes being the basis. At the moment we are importing preforms from there.
PETplanet: And what about the introduction of the light-weight PCO 1881 at Coca-Cola?
Mr Ehab Afi fi : That is ultimately a decision for the bot-tlers. We, for our part, do back the new cap. It saves mate-rial and energy.
PETplanet: Does that mean that you also provide fi nancial backing to support the necessary investment in new tooling?
Mr Ehab Afi fi : No, not that. Each company has to make its own investment. The converter in new tooling, and the bottler in the required changes to his fi lling line. At the end of the day they will all win. We want to be Number 1 in terms of environmental factors and energy savings.
PETplanet: What is the situation with regard to bottle-to-bottle recycling? From an environmental point of view this is a major factor.
Mr Ehab Afi fi : Certainly. Our parent company in Atlanta has made great strides in this area, but we mustn’t forget the Egyptian viewpoint. I don’t believe that Egyptians would accept beverage packaging made from “trash”. We can argue as long as we want from a theoretical point of view, but ultimately the people won’t accept it.
PETplanet: Many thanks for your time Mr. Afi fi .
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In the hot fi ll sector New Marina Plast is the only com-pany in Africa producing hot fi ll preforms and hopes to open up whole new market sectors with the help of the preform user Juhayna.
As far as caps are concerned the company has so far produced 30/25 and PCO 28 caps for still drinks. Amr Fathi is in talks with Rexam with regard to producing hot fi ll caps and 1881 cap for CSDs.
Alongside organic growth, Savola is also looking to grow through acquisitions. If everything goes smoothly Amr Fathi wants to produce enough preforms in 2011 to require more than 40,000t of PET in Egypt for Africa.
Taba Group
The fi rst of two Krauss-Maffei lines is currently producing small and large preforms on alternate months. In front of the machine are Alexander Büchler (left), Ahmed Shalaby, General Manger of the Taba Group, and Basant El Debaiky, the daugh-ter of the proprietor who has recently joined the company.
The Sipa blower produces bottles from the preforms moulded on the Krauss-Maffei (currently an oval bottle for cleaning chemicals) From left to right: Basant El Debaiky, Ahmed Shalaby and Alexander Büchler
New Marina Plast Amr Fathi, General Manger
Amr Fathi, General Manager of Marina Plast (right) explains to Alexander Büchler the gradual take-over of New Marina Plast in Alexandria by Savola of Saudi Arabia.
It seems that we have New Marina Plast to “blame” for this Regional Report on Egypt. When we reported on Saudi Arabia 5 years ago we also met Shihab Izzat at Savola. He told us all about the emerging Egyptian market and the expansion plans that Savola had, includ-ing preform production. So now that we are looking at Africa we naturally wanted to know how far these plans, and the market, had evolved, which is how our Egyptian report started.
Savola took over a majority interest (70%) in New Marina Plast in 2006, and in 2008 a further 25% was acquired. The remaining 5% was acquired by Savola in 2009. Standard injection mouldings, such as garden chairs and household items, were not taken over. Savola concentrated on the production of caps for still beverages, preforms and plastic pots, plus in-mould labelling (IML). There are now 25 machines dedicated to IML work.
Savola, as one of the biggest edible oil producers, not only in Saudi Arabia but also in Egypt, is therefore ensuring that the oil industry can supply its own pre-forms. Preforms for water, CSDs and also oil are sold on the open market. The company uses BMB moulding and Husky machines Husky. With a throughput of PET resin in 2009 of 20,000t New Marina Plast is the biggest preform manufacturer in Egypt. Together with the parent company in Jeddah the group buys 80,000t of PET per annum.
Amr Fathi, General Manager of New Marina Plast, took over the management of the company just a few months ago. Previously he was 15 years at Savola in Saudi Arabia, where he held various senior positions. His main objectives are fi rstly to bring the software systems at New Marina Plast up to the standards of those at Savola, to ensure best practice in the production system, and to drive organic growth along with exports to the region. This is targeted at a minimum of 20% per annum. To support this aim there will be a new 96-cavity Husky line this year to enable them to cover the 1881 neck fi nish requirements of the whole CSD market
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IN EVERY BOTTLETHERE IS ALL OUR
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The use of PET does not have to be restricted to the beverage business - today there are an increasing number of applications in the pharmaceutical industry and for domes-tic and industrial cleaners. The Taba Group in Cairo has established a very good reputation in these newer applica-tions. However since 1988 the history of the company has been in the cap business, and today Taba produces caps for pharmaceutical and medical products on injection mould-ing machines. These include three-piece caps with a safety band and a suitable liner, complex 4-piece child-proof caps with liner, inner cap, outer cap and safety band, caps with an integrated pipette, as well as measuring cups from 2.5 to 36ml. The work carried out includes assembly and printing of the caps.
The Taba Group supplies all of the big names in the phar-maceutical and cleaning chemicals industries. A fairly good percentage of the products remain in Egypt, and Taba exports to clients in the Middle East and North Africa region and some countries in Europe”. We asked general manager Ahmed Shalaby why these international groups are ordering from him.
“There are three reasons,” he said. “Firstly the price. In comparison with European manufacturers we can produce for about 10 % less. But also international groups in the Arab states have to pay high import tariffs which we, within the Arab world, do not have to pay, or we pay only a very small percentage. This ultimately means a price advantage over European production.
Secondly, and perhaps more important, is the quality. Our injection moulding machines up to 50t in size come from Dr. Boy, and from 50t to 200t they are from Krauss-Maffei. The cap tools also come from European toolmakers such as KTW in Austria.This means that the clients get the same quality as they fi nd in Europe.
Thirdly, we have a high degree of fl exibility here. Whilst in Europe production schedules and capacities are planned well in advance, we are in a position to respond quickly to different volume requirements”.
Taba was in fact almost forced into the PET business by its clients. “Can you make bottles for us as well?” was a frequent question from them. No sooner said than done! Taba fi rst started producing PET bottles for the pharmaceutical industry using single-stage machines, but the demand soon grew and for big quantities they had to start using the two-stage system.
Based on their good experience with the Krauss-Maffei injection moulding machines used for caps, in 2007 the com-pany decided to invest in a KM preform system from Munich. Ahmed Shalaby looked at all of the big fi ve manufacturers of stretch blow moulding machines and fi nally decided that the Sipa SFL 4/4 was the optimum machine for his needs.
So today the Krauss-Maffei preform system stands along-side the linear stretch blow moulder producing the bottles. “Because the changeover from one preform to another takes a lot of time we let the machine run for up to a month with one preform type and build up some stock. After all, a preform is very compact. For bottles, on the other hand, we make fre-quent changeovers on the SBM because bottles take up a lot of space,” explained Ahmed Shalaby.
Business is growing and a further production hall is cur-rently being built, in which another Krauss-Maffei and another SBMmachine will be installed.
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identity by enlisting the help of two well-known and popular Swabian TV characters, “Äffl e“ (Little monkey) and “Pferdle“ (Little pony) under the strapline “We are Swabians“. For the EiszeitQuell brand, Sander envisages an ambitious market penetration programme with its focus on Baden-Württemberg. In addition, they are looking at new markets, with an on-line shop, currently in the pipeline, showing the way forward. Sander sums his strategy up as follows: “What we are looking for is steady organic growth”. To help the company achieve this, the MD will be investing exclusively in PET plant. It is well-known that within Germany Baden-Württemberg is regarded as a stronghold of traditional glass bottles (for min-eral water, that is). The company’s dual brand name strat-egy also takes this into account. It was in 2001 that Romina commissioned its fi rst PET plant with an output at the time of 14,000bph. In order to cope with the increasing demand for EiszeitQuell products in PET, they carried out some fi ne-tun-ing on the plant in 2005.
At the time the Krones-SBM/fi ller plant had a capacity of 22,000bph. The brands produced at the PET plant at Romina are EiszeitQuell (sparkling,medium and natural), SilberBrun-nen (classic and medium) as well as SilberBrunnen Apfels-chorle (apple spritzer), Cola Mix and different kinds of lemon-ades in1 l and 1.5l single serve and returnable packaging.
According to Ralph Sander, with EiszeitQuell the company is marketing “the best water there is in Germany”. After all, consider the USP of his leading brand: In the prehistoric Ice Age spring there are no traces of modern civilisation to be found. And because the water is so good as it is, Romina has no plans to introduce near water products, which are increas-ingly gaining ground in the market place at the moment.
Own brands and trade brands
Ralph Möller, engineer at Hansa Heemann AG
Hansa Heemann Hansa Heemann supply not only their own brands but
also trade brands to the big supermarkets. Their range
In our last part of our Regional Market Report Germany we report on the fi lling companies Hansa Heemann and Romina.
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Regional brand, supra-regional ambitionRomina Mineralbrunnen
Formed more than 10,000 years ago and lying hidden 400m deep underground, protected by formidable stone for-mations, is the Ice Age spring from which Romina draws its mineral water. We visited Romina, a regional mineral water bottling company in Baden-Württemberg where attention is increasingly focused on mighty brand names, packaged in PET. With around 100 members of staff and an annual turno-ver of €25m in 2009, Romina is one of the leading mineral water bottling companies in Baden-Württemberg.
Refl ecting the proud local traditions of Swabia, the mineral water goes under the regional brand name of Silber Brunnen “ (Silver Spring) whilst its supra-regional aspirations are cap-tured under the ‘EiszeitQuell’ (Ice Age Spring) brand.
Ralph Sander, Managing Director of Romina Mineralb-runnen, is in no doubt about the glowing health of Romina, and its healthy interest in growing its brands. For the com-pany, growth means investing in the Marketing / Sales sector and, with this in mind, Sander has one or two strategies up his sleeve. The SilberBrunnen brand emphasises its local
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includes reusable glass bottles and disposable PET bottles, both system-orientated (PET cycle) and without any system orientation. With a capacity of 7.9 millionhl, the company, which has fi ve plants in Germany, ranks as one of the largest bottling enterprises. In 2005 the company decided to set up its own preform production.
“Being a beverage fi ller nowadays, you cannot earn your money on the contents of a bottle. Beyond this you have to consider every possibility to generate potential savings.” Due to short cycle times and low energy consumption, Hansa-Heemann quickly decided to place the order with Husky and Motan. “The effi ciency factor for our entire production was planned to be 95%. Now we achieve more than 97%.” “We use far less energy with these new installations. Our invest-ment costs provide a rapid return on investment in a very short period of time,” says engineer Ralph Möller.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Hansa-Heemann – emerged from the Nordgetränke GmbH in Hamburg – decided to move their headquarters to Kloster Lehnin. “We wanted to secure the bustling Berlin market and Kloster Lehnin had a good transport connection,” explains the engineer. The fi rst installation for soft packaging, glass and cans had already started produc-tion at the new site in Brandenburg at the end of 1995. At the time PET bottles had a rather slow start in Germany, but three years later the Lehnin staff thought about using plastic bot-tles. In the meantime, German consumers began purchasing at discount supermarkets where more and more PET bottles were displayed. “In 1998 we brought into service our fi rst blow moulding machine which was actually only the third machine of its kind ever built by a well-known manufacturer,” says the branch director.
From that point on, production increased steadily in Kloster Lehnin. By 2002 four more blow moulding machines were brought into service. As the demand for glass bottles abated completely, Kloster Lehnin converted entirely to PET within the Hansa-Heemann-Group. The Lehnin staff increased its production from 28,000bph in the very beginning to more than 40,000bph. “We even adapted the existing fi lling installations to the 0.5l plastic bottles with a minimum of effort,” remembers Mr Möller.
“Right from the beginning, preform production was taken into account.” Several calculations were made, right down to the last penny. Due to the bargain-hunting mentality prevalent at that time, there was little chance of making profi t on the actual contents of the bottles. “We had to squeeze out sav-ings wherever we could generate more savings potentials,” Möller tells us. To this end, in 2005/2006, Lehnin staff reviewed potential solutions and extended the dialogue with the Luxem-burg site of Husky as well as with Motan. “Our objectives were: to save energy, optimise personnel, improve quality assur-ance, explore the possibility of inline measurements during preform production and fi ne tune the traceability of records on production data. All these were extremely important factors to us. “ It is exactly this high effi ciency factor of the nine new injection moulding installations and ancillary equipment that makes Ralph Möller from Hansa-Heemann AG happy. “As I mentioned before, the production is unobstructed, and energy-wise we are far more effi cient. It has all worked out very well.”
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The Rapid Guide to Perfect Preforms by Rick Unterlander and Ottmar Brandau
Symptom: A thin layer of plastic protrudes out of the preform at one of the parting lines.
Cause:Plastic material that has seeped through intersecting mould components either from too low a melt viscosity or insuffi cient clamping tonnage.
Solutions:1. Check injection time isn’t too low (injection rate too fast)
and adjust if necessary. Injection rate should be about 10 – 12g/sec/cavity.
2. Check to ensure injection pressure isn’t too high, especially when peaking at the transition point.
3. Check to ensure hold (packing) pressure isn’t too high, especially near the beginning of hold time.
Troubleshooting guides have suffered in the past from being locked away in offi ces and not being available to the people that actu-ally need them. Considering the high cost of machine and tools high scrap rates can be a costly proposition eating away at already tight margins.
PETplanet’s “Rapid Guide to Perfect Pre-forms” takes a different approach. Bound in laminated paper that is easy to clean off, the small format of the book of 108 mm by 151 mm (4.25” by 6”) allows easy storage in back pockets or tool boxes. It has been written for the people on the fl oor of injection mould-ing companies to support their daily work in making the best preforms possible.
The product of two industry experts, Rick Unterlander and Ottmar Brandau, it gives concrete advice on 35 of the most common problems in preform manufacture, most illustrated by pictures. From high AA levels to wavy bodies processors can fi nd help when they need it.
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4. Check that transition position is set to about 13% of shot-size + cushion. Lower values may result in overfi lling.
5. Ensure clamp tonnage is adequate for the preform size, cavitation, and process. Typical values are about 0.28 - 0.56t/cm2 (2 - 4t/in2) of projected preform area.
6. Check that there is no debris on the mould mating surfaces. These surfaces should be kept clean at all times.
7. Check to ensure that the mould neck inserts are properly aligned and seated.
8. Check all temperature readings and correct if necessary. PET resin should be melted at about 280ºC (536ºF) +/- 10ºC (18ºF).
9. Check that all thermocouples are properly inserted and contacting the bottom of the wells.
10. Check extruder back pressure and minimize if possible. Back pressure should be suffi cient to provide good melt mixing, but not too little to cause bubbles to appear. Typi-cal range is 15 – 20 bar (200 – 300 psi).
11. Check screw rpm and minimize if possible. Screw speed should be reduced as much as possible to minimize shear heating, yet still recover within the cycle time of the machine. The stopped time at the end of recovery should be about 2sec to offset any fl uctuations during screw recovery.
12. Check hardware for worn, damaged or failed components, specifi cally the mould neck inserts, cavity tapers, and lock ring tapers.
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Table of Contents
i..................................... About the Authors ii............................................. Introductionchapter 1.......................................... AA Level High 2.....................................Accordion Preform 3....................................Air hooks / Streaks 4............................................Black Specks 5...................................................Bubbles 6.............................................. Burn Marks 7..........................Colour Streaking / Peeling 8.............................................. Crystallinity 9............................................. Drool Marks 10.......................................................Flash 11......................................Gate Depressions 12............................................ Gate Peeling 13.............................. Gate Voids / Pin Holes 14......................................Internal Gate Sink 15............................................ Internal Sinks 16.....................................................IV Loss 17........................................ Long Gate Nub 18........................................... Milky Preform 19.........................................Moisture Marks 20............................ Neck Finish out of Round 21....................................Parting Line Crease 22............................. Parting Line Deformation 23......................................Preform Yellowing 24...............................................Short Shots 25.......................................................Sinks 26......................................................Splay 27........................................Stretched Necks 28..................................................Stringing 29......................................Surface Blemishes 30......................................Thread Flow Lines 31..................... TSS (Top Sealing Surface) Sink 32................................................... Unmelts 33............................. Wall Thickness Variation 34..............................................Wavy Body 35...............................................Weld Lines
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Energy: fi rst things fi rst …Energy saving was and always
has been an important topic for the company. The fi rst step was to assess the potential for energy saving in terms of screw geometry, the screw drive, the clamping unit and the robotics. Savings of up to 30% were achieved in these areas. Compared to the situation ten years ago, the energy required to produce a kilo of PET has been more than halved!
As a result of this movement towards reducing energy consump-tion on the PET-Line systems featuring significant energy values amounting to less than 200Wh/kg PET have been achieved.
Moreover, the potential for deter-mining product energy consumption with an accuracy of +/- 5% as early as the offer phase has also been explored.
Next: … the other suppliers
The next stage was to look at energy consumption of the whole aux-iliary equipment. Particular attention was paid to the material dryers, where the amount of energy required to plas-ticate the material is signifi cant.
Studies undertaken with the manufacturers of materials dryers have shown that the drying of the raw material is another key element that merits attention. Just as signifi cant is the energy input into the raw mate-rial, because there is nowhere that the PET material can absorb energy in a gentler way than in the dryer hopper. In a best case scenario, it is even pos-sible to achieve a slight reduction in the proportion of acetaldehyde (AA) proportion as early as the heating up phase. As a result, the machine requires correspondingly less energy to bring about fusion in the material. This means that, due to the (now)
lower proportion of energy that is still to be transferred into the material via the plastication unit, the material will plasticate considerably more gently resulting in a further reduction in the occurrences of AA.
These fi ndings have helped to make it possible to formulate, together with the dryer manufacturers, a pre-cise defi nition not only of the state of dryness of the raw material but also its energy content as it is transferred from the dryer for plastication. Estab-lishing the energy input in the dryer hopper is extremely costly, and dif-fi cult to achieve, which is why Netstal has developed its own monitoring facilities.
In addition to the dryer, there is potential for more savings in the cooler unit used for cooling the mould. This could only be achieved by close cooperation with both manufacturers. The primary stage involved mould
Energy savings and improving cost effi ciency Over the past two years, the Swiss company Netstal-Maschinen AG has launched a number of new developments aimed at saving energy and improving cost effi ciency in the manufacture of PET preforms. We look at how they got on. *
Netstal moves towards reducing energy consumption on their PETline systems
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Air flow management & stabilization Regeneration power management Advanced controls
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50%50% 70 W/kg/h70 W/kg/h energy savedenergy saved
Existing systems 130 -140-150 W/kg/h and moreExisting systems 130 -140-150 W/kg/h and more
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optimisation to ensure close-contour mounting of the cooling sections wherever possible. Although manu-facturing moulds of this kind involves considerably greater expense, this is compensated for by a signifi cant reduction in cycle time. A further effect was that the temperature required for the cooling water was increased by approx. 2°C with a simultaneous reduction in the amount of cooling water, whilst at the same time it proved possible to increase the difference in temperature between cooling water inlet and discharge. These steps led to energy savings in excess of 17% in the cooler unit.
Cost effectiveness: reducing the cycle time
In addition to the energy savings in relation to the PET system, achieving shorter cycle times is the key objec-tive since investment-hungry preform systems need to be used in the most effi cient way possible.
Netstal has taken this require-ment into account and presented the newly-developed Calitec aimed at an intelligent reduction of cycle time. Due to the fact that it is possible to seal the preform, still hot from the injection moulding process, in the neck area without damaging it and to support it with compressed air, signifi cant savings and improvements have been made:
the cycle time has been reduced by up to 20% whilst the quality of the pre-form has been enhanced. The Calitec system has already been installed on a number of occasions in Netstal systems with up to 192 cavities. Further systems have been installed in several European countries, and additional retrofi tting packages or new machines with Calitec will shortly be ready for delivery.
The effi ciency of the Calitec System has been further increased by making use of more intensive cooling of the moulds as described above; as a result of the cooling, the outer skin of the preform becomes highly robust so that, even where cycle times are very short, Calitec sustains the cooling chain and thus prevents any reheating. This means that, with the new developments OH X-Cool (Otto Hofstetter) and HP-Stack (MHT), Calitec is able to demon-strate particular effi ciency in operation, especially where preforms with smaller wall thicknesses are concerned.
Overmoulding to the fore
The Swiss company are also able to manufacture 2-layer preforms where the fi rst layer can have a wall thickness of less than 1mm. This is made possible by means of a core support.The possibilities offered by this process could be considerable; worthy of mention are, for example, Prelactia (recently launched on the market) or various barrier applica-
tions based on different raw materials (PS, PP) together with a wide range of colour applications.
Since the launch of Prelactia this product has undergone consistent development.The composition of the two raw materials used, to which the necessary additives are added as early as the polymerisation phase, has been further optimised in order to elevate the light barrier. As a result of these endeavours success has been achieved in reducing the preform weight selected in the fi rst stage from 28g for a 1l bottle to just 24g. At the same time the bottle did not suffer any restrictions either in terms of the bar-rier characteristics or in terms of the strength characteristics required. In the meantime, new Prelactia products developed for yoghurt or creamer pots have come on to the market. The product Prelactia received an award at the Emballage packaging exhibi-tion in Paris in the autumn of 2008. Further applications of overmouldings that may be of interest also include the use of recyclates on the outer layer of cap manufacture: by way of example, we would mention here 2-colour caps or the use of two differ-ent components.
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Although Netstal may have not invented overmoulding, they apply the process for manufac-turing 2-layer preforms with high level reproducibility using this process. Prelactia received an award at Emballage 2008.
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Conveyors for preforms and empty bottlesWhoever would have thought that so many suppliers would be involved in this sector? When we put this topic alongside the others on the list of market surveys for the fi rst time, we were thinking primarily of the usual suspects. “If we’re lucky, we’ll fi nd ten suppliers”, we said to ourselves. Subsequent research quickly proved us wrong: the number of companies involved rapidly reached double fi gures. Our address department worked late into the night and over the weekend to make sure they got hold of every address and every contact – so a huge thank you to the team for their efforts.In the end nine companies responded to our questionnaire. We know from other market surveys that we have carried out that companies tend to be cautious in their responses, but our experience shows that, once a survey is repeated, at least twice as many companies as expected take the trouble to fi ll out the questionnaires.
Whilst PETplanet insider has have made every effort to ensure that the information in this new survey is up to date no claims are made regarding completeness or accuracy. All data is as supplied by the manufacturers.
04/10MARKETsurvey PET bottle-to-bottle
recycling plants
Caps and closures
Conveyers for preforms and empty bottles
Preforms
Preform moulds and SBM moulds
2-stage SBM machinery
Preform and single stage machinery
Resins and additives
Filling equipment
Compressors
Company name SMI S.p.A.Postal address
Telephone numberWeb site addressContact nameFunctionDirect telephone numberFaxE-Mail
Via Piazzalunga, 3024015 S.Giovanni Bianco BG - Italy0039 0345 40111www.smigroup.itPietro VolpiMarketing Manager0039 0345 403160039 0345 [email protected]
Preform: from injection moulding machine into the box:Box-fi lling system (Yes/No) YesMaximum drop from conveyor belt to base of carton (in cm)
120 cm
In-line control (Yes/No) YesSpecial features Main specifi cations: Easily accessible modular frame, which can be integrated into any production line. Frame and supports made of stainless steel AISI 304.
Supporting feet and fl at link chain made of plastic. Chain slip tracks, driving and idle wheels made of printed plastic. Covering system to protect products from external agents.
Preform: from box into stretch blowmould-ing machine up to 60, 000 preforms/hDumper (Yes/No) YesConversion to different neck diameters (No/mechanical/electrical)
(mechanical/ectrical)
- In-line Control (Yes/No) YesSpecial features See above mentioned pointBottle: from SBM to fi ller, air conveyorAir conveyor (incl. vertical) (Yes/No) YesPurity levels (Which?) G3/F9/H14Bottle format conversion YesConversion to different neck diameters YesSpecial features Frame and supports made of stainless steel AISI 304. Possibility to regulate the air distributing system according to the bottle handled (by means of manual
valves or by electronic control of the motors speed) Bottle body guides made of stainless steel and UHMW antifriction plastic.Bottle body guides to align the products in the conveyor trajectories. Supporting frames on the fl oor, on the wall, or on the ceiling e ejecting automatic system at the blowmoulder outlet. -Bottle inserting manual system at the blowmoulder outlet.. Automatic or manual change-over of the bottle body guides, according to the line requirements.
Bottle storage systemsBottle up-ender (Yes/No) YesBuffer systems capacity (number of bottles from to )
Depending on the bottle diameter
Storage systems capacity (number of bottles from to )
Depending on the bottle diameter
Palleter and de-palleter for empty PET bottles (Yes/No)
No
Special features See above mentioned point
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Company name GEA Procomac S.p.A. Zecchetti Srl Accs Europe Intec Solutions KrPostal address
Telephone numberWeb site addressContact nameFunctionDirect telephone numberFaxE-Mail
Via A. Moro, 1/A - 43044 Collecchio (Parma) Italy+39 0521 333711 www.procomacpackaging.com/Fabio BorriniProduct and Export Sales Manager+39 0521 333752+39 0521 [email protected]
Via Galileo Galilei, 1-1/A42027 Montecchio Emilia (RE) Italy0039 0522 867411www.zecchetti.itFrancesco ParmaSales Manager0039 0522 8674110039 0522 [email protected]
33 rue Victor Tilmant 59000 Lille, France00.33.(0)9.81.68.94.43www.accseurope.comFrancis AntsonSales Director00.33.(0)6.66.01.88.0000.33.(0)[email protected]
2382 Bolton rd Nw, Atlanta,Ga 30138404 815 9983www.intecsolutionsusa.comA. ManierPresident404 815 9983404 601 [email protected]
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Preform: From Injection Mould-ing Machine into the Box:Box-fi lling system (Yes/No) No No Yes Yes noMaximum drop from conveyor belt to base of carton (in cm)
45 cm / 18 '' no
In-line Control (Yes/No) No No Yes Yes noSpecial features noPreform: From Box into Stretch Blowmoulding Machine up to 60 000 preforms/hrDumper (Yes/No) Yes Yes Yes YeConversion to different neck diameters (No/mechanical/electrical)
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- In-line Control (Yes/No) No Yes Yes YeSpecial features Box automatic storage/retrieval preform unscrambler au
cyBottle: From SBM to Filler, Air ConveyorAir Conveyor (incl. vertical) (Yes/No)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Ye
Purity levels (Which?) 99.99 DOP – photometric test method.
3 levels: (a) 1-stage fi ltering : G4 – EN779:2002 - min 90% gal-vanometric (b) 2-stage fi ltering : F9 – EN779:2002 - min 95% opaci-metric on 0,4 micron (c) 3-stage Absolute Filtering: H14 – EN1822 Hepa Filter - 99,995 MPPS 0,12-0,17 micron – min 99,999 NaCI – 0,65 micron; Filtered air class: 100 (according to the Federal Standard 209) - 5 (according to the ISO Standard 14644)
H14 c100 or ISO5 F5
Bottle format conversion Yes, automatic available (a) Fully automatic by means of pneumatic cylinders(b) Fully automatic by means of unlimited position drives
Yes Yes au(u
Conversion to different neck diameters
Yes, manual available (a) Fully automatic by means of pneumatic cylinders(b) Fully automatic by means of unlimited position drives
under request Yes aucy
Special features Special air jets design, with air cushion effects on the bottles, thus reducing the electric power consumption (up to 40% less)
smooth, low-friction, special plastic clip-on neck guides / high-speed driven splitters / EST (Energy Saving Target) facility / automatic control of the air fl ow delivery / *line sinoptic on PC / fully fl exible recipes
Quick change under neck guide, cleaning service
Quick change neck guide; Universal guid-ing system; Blower speed management
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Bottle Storage SystemsBottle Up-ender (Yes/No) No Yes Yes Yes NoBuffer Systems Capacity (Number of Bottles from to )
(Number of Bottles from 1,000 to 50,000 ) silo or tote systems from 0 to 55, 000
Storage Systems Capacity (Number of Bottles from to)
No Silo from 0 to 350, 000
Palleter and De-Palleter for empty PET bottles (Yes/No)
Yes, depalletisers Yes Yes No Ye
Special features buffer systems for light and fragile bottlespalletizer/depalletizer combi to provide: top-up to fi lling line / continuous SBM running around the clock / back-up in case of fi ller downtime / infi nite accumulation
We propose a tote system,which optimize the space to 90% of the volume of the truck. It is stackable without racks inside the warehouse and ultimately eliminates packaging material (plastic and wood)
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Krones AG KHS AG Sidel Posimat, S.A.Böhmerwaldstraße 593073 Neutraubling49 9401 70-0www.Krones.comReiner KahlVice President of Division Conveyor Technology49 9401 70-306549 9401 [email protected]
Juchostr. 20D-44143 Dortmund 49 231 569 0www.khs.comThorsten KaheManager Container Conveyors+49 231 569 1583+49 231 569 [email protected]
Sidel Blowing & Services SAS, Avenue de la Patrouille de France, Octeville-sur-Mer, BP 204, 76053 Le Havre cedex33 2 32 85 83 00www.sidel.comSylvie RakBusiness Communication Manager33 2 32 85 82 4633 2 32 85 81 [email protected]
Avda Arraona 23,P.O.Box 306 08210 Barberà del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain00 34 93 729 76 16www.posimat.comMaribel RodríguezArea Sales Manager00 34 93 729 76 1600 34 93 718 88 [email protected]
Preform conveyor in mass fl ow available
not availabale Yesnot availabale
not availabale Yesnot availabale
Preform feeder
Yes Yes Yesmechanical Mechanical Electrical
Yes Yes Yesautomatic change over at feed rail system via pneumatic cylinders, automatic elimination of the malfunction
Failure detection cells
Yes Yes (HW) Yes Yes
F5, F8, H13(HEPA) Standard Gravi F5, OPA F8, DOP H12 Hepa fi lters, DOP effi ciency at 0,3 microns: 99,9%
automatic adjustable body guide rail via multi position cylinder (up to 12 positions) or stepless adjustment via linear motor
Manually Yes, different automatic side guiding + adapted regulation Yes, even automatically
automatic adjustable neck-ring guide rail via pneumatic cylinders, also in curves
No Yes (automatic change over) Yes, even automatically
d- Triangle chute, standard and enhanced hygienic design, easy replaceable neck-ring and body guide rail, high effi ciency blowing unit, automatic pressure control, ultrasonic sensors
x Range of mergers, dry lubrication on neck guide Double guide system to convey safely even very short neck bottles. Vertijet is the only conveyor able to go up or down from 0 to 90° with or without accumulation.
No No YesBuffer Table (1400x8000mm) Tailor made, upon customer demands and available
roomx Tailor made, upon customer demands and available
roomExit system designed to handle lightweight delicate PET bottles. Great fl exibility for different formats and frequent production changes.
Yes Yes Yes Yes, depalletiser
e x up to 30,000bph Sweep-off depalletiser into a hopper, simple and more economical than conventional systems.
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Manufacturing Advisory Services – PET case studyThe Husky Manufacturing Advisory Services team provides operational consulting, design and project management services to help customers increase the operating effi ciency of their plastic injection moulding facilities. A case study explains how Husky worked with a PET cus-tomer to improve the overall operating effi ciency of their operation.
The customer is a PET preform manufacturer in Europe with eleven injection moulding machines for water, CSD and edible oil preforms.
The situation
The Husky Manufacturing Advi-sory Services team has worked with this manufacturer since 2003, performing yearly plant audits of the entire operation, identifying, quantify-ing, prioritising and following up on the implementation of improvement opportunities.
Flexible maintenance and asset management software solutions
Husky Injection Molding Systems has launched two soft-ware packages as part of its services offerings. Pro-Act is described as a fl exible maintenance program; Shotscope NX is an integrated process and production monitoring system.
The company says that the Pro-Act maintenance program is based on a proactive maintenance model. It is intended to maintain high performance and to avoid system degrada-tion by using monitoring and measurable results to pre-plan and customise maintenance schedules, and to identify and respond to issues before they become problems. The program offers three levels of service, from entry-level to advanced.
Shotscope NX is presented by Husky as an integrated process and production monitoring system that provides expe-dited information to help manufacturers control processes and improve productivity while minimizing scrap and downtime. The software is designed to help manufacturers characterise and report on production and process statistics at both the dis-crete systems and plant-wide levels. The company says that Shotscope’s real-time monitoring and analysis helps manu-facturers simplify reporting, improve data fl ow and coordinate more effi cient plant scheduling.
Additions over the previous Shotscope system include an enhanced user interface. The software is web-based, which allows access from anywhere and at any time. It is compat-ible with any brand of equipment and able to connect with both PDA and webcam.
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15% reduction in energy consumption (in kwh) since 2003, through:
Migrating to the latest drying and chilled water technologyImprovements to plant HVAC sys- temsIncrease in machine effi ciency.
8.3% conversion cost reduction between 2008 and 2009 (excluding materials), as a result of:
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Four new lightweight neck designsPMCI, the PET moulds and containers division of Italian company Sipa SpA, has developed a new range of lightweight neck designs that are suit-able for water, carbonated soft drinks (CSD) and hot-fi ll containers.
Materials for mineral water packaging represent 70-75% of total packaging costs. PMCI says that its new design for the Alcoa 26mm thread finish, which is already very light, takes weight down from 2.4g to 1.8g – a 25% saving. The thread design has been developed and pat-ented in partnership with a US min-eral water producer and is already deployed in the customer’s manu-facturing plant. Material savings on the 26mm Novembal shaped neck amount to 1g – weight is claimed to be cut to 2.6g.
While hot fi ll technology is popular for its advantages in reducing the use of preservatives in food and avoiding the need for aseptic processes, its value has had to be balanced against the need for robust packaging design. PMCI claims that its new neck designs enable signifi -cant resin savings for 28mm necks. The company’s Hotlight 28 weighs just 3.8g, which is less than half the standard 7.8g. It is an evolution of a neck design usually found in CSD applications and allows the production of hot fi ll and CSD products on the same line, without any compro-mise to sealing.
www.sipa.it
The company’s new design for PCO 1810 standard CSD closures uses the same height of the thread finish (21mm) but offers 27% mate-rial savings, bringing individual weight down from 5.1g to 3.7g – 1.4g per neck. The company says that this can add up to savings of many kilograms of PET a year. No change is required for the neck shape and the solution is fully com-patible with existing bottle lines. Medium and large users will be able to convert from their existing thread to the PMCI design.
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Lightweight bottles for hot fi lling
Sidel claims that its new Skyward and Curvy models are the lightest PET bottles available for hot fi lling. The two 500cl bottles weigh just 18.9g each but have distinctive appearance and functional features. The lightweight bottles have been made possible by the development of new technical solutions that extend possibilities of lightweighting for heat-set packaging.
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Skyward has a long silhouette, a belt and four panels, rather than the more common six or eight. As its name suggests, Curvy features curves, spirals and a twisted back, which acts as a support beam.
Sidel Packaging & Tooling Centre achieved the lightweighting of the new bottles by completely redesigning the neck, body and base. The 28mm amorphous (non-crystallized) neck has been made lighter, and it accepts a standard cap for carbonated soft drinks. Revisions to the base have
made it stiffer, while using fewer raw materials. The geometric structure of the bottle bodies are designed to compensate for deformations due to vacuum absorption after cooling.
Sidel says that the new bottles’ blow-moulds can achieve 1,800bph per mould with a standard HR proc-ess, which is obtained by heating optimisation with the SBO Universal range. The company’s bell nozzle is claimed to enable the blowing of lighter, amorphous necks without deformation.
www.sidel.com
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“A bottle of Bisleri, please”Whenever anyone in India orders bottled water there is very strong chance that he or she will say exactly that - “A bottle of Bisleri, please”. With a 60% market share across its brands Bisleri has no serious competitors. But that isn’t enough. For the future the company is targeting an 80 % share, and to do it they have 8 bottling plants of their own and over 50 co-packers and franchisees in India.
Service is the key to their busi-ness. Bisleri is growing by 40% year on year. Reducing the bottle weight doesn’t seem to be a good idea in the eyes of Mr Kadeer Khan, Direc-tor Corporate Affairs. A lighter bottle would be too soft and fl exible. In par-ticular the roads over which the water is transported demand a sturdy bottle. Then there is the fact that most bottles of water are sold out on the street, which means that they are exposed to direct sunlight for long periods. The refi llable 5 ,10 and 20l containers start to take on a yellowish colour after just a couple of cycles. This has been solved by introducing a light green tint
to the preforms. The company would very much like to add the green tint to their single trip bottles but unfortu-nately Indian law, for some incompre-hensible reason, forbids the colouring of single trip bottles.
Generally for Bisleri colour goes right to the heart of the matter. Until 2006 all labels were blue - and “all” means all water bottles from all suppli-ers! This of course made product dif-ferentiation on the store shelf almost impossible.
Bisleri took a course of action which, from a marketing point of view, was double edged. In 2006 they changed their main colour from blue to green, despite the fact that for decades their corporate brand-ing had been blue. Not only were the labels changed to green, but so were all of the buildings, delivery trucks and employee uniforms. Even the furniture is now in the new house colour. Today they can say that the new market
Bisleri has concentrated on still water, which is bottled exclusively in PET. from 250ml to 2l the bottles are single trip, and refi llables are used for the 5, 10 and 20l sizes. Most fi ll-ings are of the 1l size. In the North Pearl Drinks supply the required 22g preforms, made from virgin PET and using the weight-saving Alaska neck. For Mr. R. K. Garg, Director Northern India, the quality and availability is crucial, if the price is right too, then he is satisfi ed. Ten to fi fteen years ago the company tried moulding their own preforms but fi nally decided to stick to their core capability - i.e. manufactur-ing and selling pure and safe water.
Alexander Büchler (left) had the opportunity to visit two of the Indian Bisleri plants, together with Vijay Walia (right), Deputy Gen-eral Manager of Pearl Drinks. R.K. Garg (centre). Director Northern India, Bisleri, is proud of the 40% annual growth of Bisleri.
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positioning has been a suc-cess.
A recent addition to the product range is carbonated water in a 0.5l, 25g bottle with a 28 PCO cap. The car-bonation level is 4%. For the coming year the fi rst fi lling line for fl avoured water will be installed in Sahibabad. Here, because of the law prohibit-ing coloured bottles, Bisleri has a problem of shelf life but they are working hard to solve the problem as they expect to open up new markets with this product.
In India we had the opportunity to visit two of the Bisleri plants. These were the plant in Sahibabad, well developed industrial area of Uttar Pradesh and only a few kilometres north-east of Delhi, which was inaugurated only in 2006, and the plant in Delhi itself, which is currently undergoing renovation. Both plants are very similar in their basic layout. The water goes through a 7-stage purifi cation process; two SBM machines feed the containers to a single fi lling line where the water is bottled. The fi lling speed is about 120bpm. Both plants have plenty of space avail-able for expansion and at the moment are fi lling between 30 and 50 lakh* cases per annum, which equates to between 42 and 70 million litres.
* 1 lakh = 100,000
Sahab Singh (centre) DGM -Technical at Bisleri Kadeer Khan (centre), Director Corporate Affairs at Bisleri
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On top of the world Tibet Glacier produces water from the Roof of the World – bottled by three Krones lines
Tibet Glacier Mineral Water Co. Ltd. is the fi rst company to have succeeded in bottling mineral water from Tibet, in south-west China, and launching it on the Chinese market. Three Krones lines have been installed at the company’s bottling plant near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, located a mere 14,300ft (4,600m) above sea level. The water source itself is even higher still, rising from the Nianqing Tanggula mountains at 5,100m. The plant’s elevation and distance from its main markets presented some signifi cant chal-lenges that had to be overcome, including transport, air pressure differences, the thin air in the factory and even for computer equipment specifi cations.
Hong-Kong-based Mineral Water Resources Ltd., the parent company of Tibet Zhongji Jiahua and Tibet Gla-cier, opened the plant in 2006. It did so after a ten-year planning period, during which time it investigated water sources all over the Tibetan plateau. While it is one of the least-polluted areas left on earth,
Tibet is also very remote. It is sur-rounded on all sides by mountains, including the Himalayas in the south. Communications have never been good – but they are improving, quite signifi cantly, in some respects.
A key catalyst for the launch of the Lhasa plant was the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on July 1, that year. Up until that time, the only route to market was a tortuous journey by truck via the ‘Friendship Highway’ to Nepal, to the south-west. It took two to three weeks, or even more. The rail line enabled delivery from Lhasa to Beijing in two or three days and provided Tibet Glacier with a viable option for accessing the growing cities of China, 2,000km to the east.
A distinctive taste
The new mineral water, 5100, is named for the spring’s altitude. At RMB8 (€0.80) for a 500ml bottle in super-markets, it is priced for the premium market. However, the retail segment is the minority; 80% of sales are to restaurants, hotels, golf clubs, night clubs and the restaurant cars of China’s high-speed trains – the places where the rowing middle classes are to be found. The Qinghai-Tibet plateau is also home to one of Buddhism’s three sacred
lakes, the ‘Heavenly Lake’ of Namtso. Tibet Glacier water’s micro-element and mineral constituents appeal to the Chi-nese market’s attachment to traditional, herbal and natural medicines and health products.
The main sales are in 330ml bottles. In order to set itself apart and to create a distinct visual identity for its upmarket clientele, Mineral Water Resources Ltd worked with Krones’ PET design team in creating a distinctive square-shaped bottle, carried through 330, 500, 1,000 and 1,500ml sizes. For Tibet Glacier, the
5001. A very special kind of water
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emphasis of the bottles is different to most manufacturers’.
Rather than light weight
The need is for strength for the long journey from Tibet to the markets. The bottles also need the ability to withstand the changes in air pressure as they travel from the factory’s 4,600 metres elevation to sea level. Once they reach consumers’ hands, they have to feel comfortable and sub-stantial. The preforms, weighing 18g; 23.5g; 36.8g and 47.6g respectively, are produced in-house.
From idea to inception
The fi rst Krones 24,000 bph blow-moulder/fi ller bloc, plus a Contiroll labeller, was delivered in 2006. The testing ground for 5100 was Tibet itself; having been proved in its local market, 5100 was launched into China. In 2007 and the second Krones fi ller bloc and an Autocol pressure-sensitive label applier followed in 2008. Also rated at 24,000bph, its installation allowed production to be doubled. A third line, made up of a complete 36,000bph Krones PET line, arrived in early 2009. The company is already looking to the future – the new Tibet Glacier produc-tion hall has room for a further three lines.
Challenges of height
The bottling plant’s elevation required a series of special measures in order to assure reliable bottle pro-duction, fi lling and labelling. The rat-ings of all the drives had to be at least 20% higher than standard. Since Tibet Glacier also sells the water down to sea level, the bottles have to withstand
a pressure differential of about 0.4 bar. The PET containers are fi lled as closely as possible to the brim in order to prevent bottle deformation; liquid is less susceptible to compression and expansion than headspace air.
Air consumption of Tibet Glacier’s stretch blow-moulding machine at high altitude is considerably more than normal. At sea level and stand-ard barometric pressure, consump-tion is 581m³/h; in Lhasa, at 4,600m elevation, it almost doubles, to 999m³/h. The high-performance compressors, sup-plied by Krones, were specifi ed with 70% more capacity, while the Contiform cool-ers are 25% more powerful than the norm. Other machine confi gurations largely conformed to Krones’ normal standards. However, an unfore-seen issue arose with the touch-screen com-puter control panels. They are normally rated up to 3,500m elevation; the equip-ment for Tibet Glacier had to be specially tested and certifi ed as suitable for the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau.
Installation work high up in the mountains was an entirely new experi-ence for the Krones staff involved and a
few were affected by altitude sickness. Additional service personnel ensured the installation schedule was achieved.
Tibet Glacier now has produc-tion capacity of two million b/day, or 300,000t/a. Within the next fi ve years, the company is aiming to be listed on the stock exchange and to increase production capacity to 400,000t/a. The strategy is to build up the company’s image within China and then to look to other markets.
Tibet Glacier is meanwhile operating three lines from Krones.
The air consumption for the stretch blow-moulding machine is almost twice as high as at sea level.
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Auto-adaptive drying system claims major energy savings
The drying of PET is a cru-cial stage in its transformation from resin to fi nished product. Failure to ensure proper drying and conditioning can lead to a rapid drop-off in inherent vis-cosity (IV), with negative effects on the blow-moulding proc-ess. Drying consumes a large volume of energy, requiring the resin to be exposed to hot, dry air for up to as much as 6 hours. Italian company Piovan, headquartered near Venice,
Italy, has introduced Genesys, a drying system that it says improves this process and makes it more energy effi cient.
Genesys is claimed to achieve the industry’s lowest-ever energy consumption. The system uses state-of-the-art tech-nology, such as loss in weight control, airfl ow management and stabilisation, an intelligent regeneration process and advanced industrial PC-based control. The company says it is the only auto-adaptive system available today.
The system has integrated an automatic airfl ow control and adjustment to reduce energy consumption by 35 – 55% below conventional resin drying systems. It also has the capability to further optimise energy use by stabilising the airfl ow in the drying hopper. It is further designed to recover almost all the energy used in regeneration of the desiccant material and, in so doing, to achieve savings of 50 – 80%, compared with traditional or current regeneration technology.
With claimed overall system savings of 30% and more, Piovan says that a Genesys system producing PET performs running resin at a rate of 1,000kg/h can achieve savings in excess of 220,000kWh/yr.
www.piovan.com/genesys
Fully automatic mobile plant for dis-aster areas and production fl exibility
Plast Engineering Knauff e.K. has recently dem-onstrated and sold a number of fully automatic stretch blow-mould bottling, fi lling and labelling plants that are installed into a standard 40ft (12m) container. Designated as the Compact A 4C, the company says that the mobile plant is suitable for disaster emergency relief operations and for periods of heavy commercial demand.
The Compact A 4C manufactures up to 2,800 PET 500 to 1,500cl bph from preforms; other volumes can also be specifi ed. The PET bottles are automatically disinfected by UV radiation and transferred directly to the fi lling station, which fi lls them with UV disinfected drink-ing water. They are then closed with UV radiated caps, labelled, and covered with tamper-evident sleeves. The ready-for-sale bottles are discharged through a window in the container wall.
Operation of the blow moulder requires clean air at 15 bar. The fi lling/capping, labelling, and sleeving units are supplied by a screw compressor, which is installed in an insulated compartment at one end of the container. Venti-lation fl aps enable proper airfl ow for each component.
The complete system requires an 80 kW power supply; a potable water supply has to be provided on site. EC electrical power and two-inch water supply con-nections are installed on the outside of the container.
www.pet-equipments.de www.plastics-equipments.de
22g ultra-light 1500ml water bottleSipa says that it has
used its TriBloc technol-ogy, presented at Drinktec 2009, to produce the world’s lightest 1,500ml bottle for still or carbonated water. The 22g bottle is blown in Sipa rotary blow-moulders at 2,000bph per cavity and fi lled and labelled in the Sipa TriBloc. Sipa is now offer-ing complete turnkey lines, including TriBloc and a Sipa packaging and palletising line, which is designed to handle very light containers throughout the process. This eliminates the need for conveyor switches or setting and management at each changeover. PE roll-adhesive tech-nology eliminates hot melt glue and traditional label cut-ting knives and makes the packing line simpler as bottles are delivered from the TriBloc, onto table-top conveyors straight to the shrink-packer. Space required is 40% less than conventional lines and the bottle itself can hold 60kg of top load. One operator can monitor the complete line, assisted by forklift drivers for raw materials supply.
www.sipa.it
Volumetric fi lling systemAMS Ferrari, of Modena, Italy, celebrated the presentation
of its Infi nity volumetric fi ller/capper system with a sale to an Iranian company at drinktec 2009.
The 52-valve Infi nity system uses a Windows-based PC control for entering required capacity into the machine and shows three fi lls at once, to aid in monitoring and fault-fi nding. It is supplied from a pressurised tank, with electronic moni-tor, along a single pipe to the volumetric fi llers. A second pipe controls the pneumatic valve opening and shutting. It is capa-ble of handling a range of hot or cold fi ll beverages and liquids, from low-density water to high-density products such as tomato sauce, ketchup and fruit preserves, as well as detergents and delicate fl uids like milk. It is designed to respond automatically to changes in temperature and viscosity.
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New Electric Reheatersfor 5-Gal PET Water Containers
Canadian company W. Amsler Equipment Inc has unveiled a three-model line of electric reheat stretch-blow molding machines for production of PET water containers up to 18.9L (5 gal). They are designed to produce BPA-free replacements for polycarbonate. The fully automatic L120 convertible can be used in one, two, or three-cavity modes for production of 4l to 22l bottles. Production rates are: 18.9l at 300/h; 15l at 1000/h, and 3.8l at 3000/h. Neck sizes range from 28mm to 70mm. With neck sizes from 33mm to 63 mm the LM 120 is a semi-automatic, monoblock reheat machine with manual preform loading, producing 18.9l bottles at 170/h. The manual M120 has sepa-rate preheat and blowing units. It makes 120 3.8l bph and 80 18.9l bph. Neck sizes are from 33mm to 80mm.
Amsler supplies 18.9l pre-forms for its machines and says that the products offer output, energy, precision and changeo-ver advantages compared to hydraulics.
www.amslerequipment.com
Panelless hotfi ll PET bottles and lightweight PET wine bottles.
E-proplast GmbH’s panelless, hot-fi llable, disposable PET bottle has been developed from a combination of the special heatset blow moulding process and a modifi ed glass fi lling line. The panelless Hotfi ll bottles can be fi lled with popular fruit juices such as orange, fruit punch and apple. A shelf-life between 9 and 12 months is possible, depending on the product.
The technology allows reduced weight and, therefore, savings in mate-rials. A 1l hotfi ll weighs 40g; a 330ml panelless version just 21.5g. E-pro-plast says that existing glass fi lling lines can be converted with relatively simple instruments.
The company has also extended its EproWine range, with the introduc-tion of a lighter PET bottle for wine. It has the same appearance as tradi-tional glass wine bottles but weighs just 49g.
www.e-proplast.eu
Cost-effective PET bottle handling
Sismatico UK Ltd, of Don-caster, UK, has introduced two machines for conveying PET bottles – the APF 3002 and APF 6004. The former is designed to handle up to 3000 1.5l bphur and the latter is capable of 6000 bottles/hour. Sismatico manu-factures air conveying systems for food and beverage produc-ers. The aim of its PET Air-Conveyor System is to provide a low maintenance accumula-tion link between system infeed machines such as blow mould-ers, de-palletisers and unscram-blers, to the end of the line machines such as fi llers, rinsers, labellers and palletisers. The Sismatico Clipmatic neck guide material incorporates a special low friction plastic profi le, which allows for a 150m joint-free run-ning surface. Its dry lubrication system allows increased neck rail life and reduced air conveyor power consumption.
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The PET dab of mustard The Krallmann
Group develops and produces caps for PET bottles that oper-ate by means of a valve system. On Messrs. Carl Kühne’s ‘K-squeezes’, this is how the cap is pro-duced using the 2-com-ponent procedure.
The TPE valve, which is injection moulded directly into the cap, has been individually coordinated with the product requirements and, in conjunction with the shapely PET bottle made by cooperation partner Gizeh PET, enables clean, fault-free dispensing and metering of precisely the amount of mustard required.
The bottle is designed to stand on its cap. This ensures that there is always suffi cient mustard at the valve opening so you don’t have to shake the bottle.
www.krallmann.de
Single-serve PET bottle for health drink Amcor PET Packaging is supplying organic
beverage manufacturer Sambazon, Inc., with a new range of specially designed 11 fl oz (33cl) single-serve PET bottles for its new, premium Antioxidant Elixir acai drink. The easy grip, clear packages are covered with a full-body PET shrink label and aimed at the ‘on-the-go’ market. Clarity was the deciding factor over HDPE.
www.amcor.com
Unusual sauce bottle The French subsidiary of Bakka-
vor, based in Mâcon, is selling vari-ous salad dressings and sauces in an unusual long-necked 150 ml PET bottle. The bottles have a self-adhe-sive label and are sealed by a silver-coloured PE screw cap with tear-off tamper evidence.
Sweetener in PETKrüger of Bergisch-Gladbach has
a 300 ml pack of “Cologrin“ sweetener, based on sodium cyclamate and sodium saccharine, in a clear PET bottle. The screw-on, colour-coordinated dispenser cap, which tapers to a point, and the conical fold-back overcap, have a snap-off tamper-evident feature. A wrap-around paper label carries the required product and commercial data and nicely fi nishes off this modern pack.
“Karamalz” in PETBy changing the packaging
of their “Karamalz” malt bever-age to a modern, lightweight 0.75 litre PET bottle, with a unique design and shape, the Eichbaum brewery of Mannheim, Germany, hope to increase their market share. The dark coloured bottle has an embossed logo in the upper area and the word “Karamalz” further down. A colour coordi-nated, tamper evident screw cap and a wrap-around paper label give this package an attractive look on the shelves.
Lidl chooses PETThe European discount supermarket
chain Lidl, headquartered in Neckarsulm, Germany, is selling a 1l pack of “Hather-wood” brand blackcurrant syrup in a PET bottle. The bottle has embossing in the upper and lower parts that signifi cantly improve its stability. A wrap-around paper and a colour coordinated screw cap with tear-off tamper evidence complete this attractive, high quality pack.
Chilli sauce from a clear bottle
The 300 ml pack of chilli sauce with mango and pineapple is sold by the Dutch company Go-Tan of Vesteren in PET bottles. The bottle has neck and base areas with good stability and is dressed with a wrap-around plastic label that carries all of the important product information. The screw cap is fi tted with a hinged lid for easy dispensing and the bottle is tamper-proofed and sealed by an aluminium composite foil over the neck.
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Personal Care
“Creme 21” shower cream
The current owner of the relaunched “Creme 21“ brand is now trying to position the shower gels at the point of sale. Creme 21 GmbH of Bad Homburg has launched, for example, 250ml packs of “Milk & Honey” and “Waterfall”. The shower gels are packaged in white PET with an attractive shrink sleeve. An embossed white hinged cap completes this pack.
Sagrotan in PET
During the outbreak of “swine fl u” there was an increased interest in products that clean the hands particularly intensively and that kill, bacteria. ReckittBenckiser of Mannheim, Germany, now have two Sagrotan brand 250ml packs of liquid soap on the shelves that are claimed to remove 99.9% of bacteria. The PET bottles have a “no-label look” label on the front and an informative self-adhesive paper label on the back, shaped to match the pack shape. A dispenser pump, with a lock position, is used to dispense the products.
2 phases in PETBrown PET for shampoo
The French cosmetics manu-facturer Laboratoires Vendome of Quentigny is marketing 250ml packs of shampoo under the “ Petit Marseillais“ brand and pack-aged in a brown PET bottle. The front of the pack has a “no-label” look label whilst on the back there is an informative self-adhesive paper composition label. The glossy metallic-coloured hinged cap gives the product a high qual-ity look and is an eye-catcher on the store shelf.
Wooden collar for PET bottle
The German discount chain Lidl of Neckarsulm have deco-rated their 250ml PET bottle of “Suhada” body lotion with an attractive wooden collar The collar gives the pack a natural and high quality look and is very eye-catching on the store shelf. Front and rear labels in a light, woody colour reinforce the brand image and carry the required product and commercial data. A screw-on pump dispenser with a locking mechanism fi nishes off this unu-sual cosmetics pack
Under the “Ombia“ brand Luhn of Wuppertal, Germany, is supplying the Aldi discount chain with 500 ml packs of 2-phase bath gel containing milk and aloe vera, and pack-aged in a compact clear PET bottle dressed with two self-adhesive paper labels. The aluminium screw cap is particularly eye-catching and attractive.
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GABRIEL-CHEMIE Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Zentrale)Industriestrasse 1
A-2352 Gumpoldskirchen
Tel.: +43 (0)2252 / 63 630-0
Fax: +43 (0)2252 / 62 725-0
e-mail: [email protected]
www.gabriel-chemie.com
HOLLAND COLOURS NV
P.O. box 720
7300 AS Apeldoorn, Netherlands
0031-55 3680700
0031-55 3662981
www.hollandcolours.com
Advanced Colorants and Additives COLORMATRIX EUROPE LTD.
Knowsley Business Park,
Knowsley, Merseyside.
L34 9GT. UK
Tel: 0044-151 632-8800
www.colormatrix.com
Liquid colours and additives
REPI S.p.A.
Via B. Franklin 2
21050 LONATE CEPPINO VA
ITALY
tel. +39 0331 819511
fax +39 0331 819581
www.repi.it
1.2 Packaging components and accessories
1.2.1 Preforms
Gastro PET d.o.o.
Kotna ulica 5
SI-3000 Celje
Tel: +386 (0)3 425 80 30
Fax: +386 (0)3 425 80 31
www.gastropet.si
PET PREFORMS AND CLOSURES
INTERGULF LTD. (EMPOL)
KHALID SEAPORT
P.O.BOX 6131,
SHARJAH, U.A.E.
Tel. 009716 502 9244 / 9246
Fax. 009716 528 5720
www.empol.com
PDG PLASTIQUESF-45330 Malesherbes - France
Tel. 00 33 2 38 34 61 95
www.pdg-plastiques.com
PET PreformPlastic cap and closureRue de la plaine
47230 Lavardac - France
Tel.: +33 (0)5 53 97 41 00
Fax: +33 (0)5 53 65 85 97
www.sbecm.com
Preform manufacturer3 Rue de l’île Macé44 412 REZE FranceTel: + 33 (0)2 40 05 09 37Fax: + 33 (0)2 51 70 00 [email protected]
Tel.: 00 33 (0) 232 85 86 87
www.sidel.com
1.2.2 Bottles
KKT Kaller Kunststoff Technik GmbH
Siemensring 32-34
53925 Kall, Germany
Tel. +49-2441-887-0
Fax +49-2441-887-99
[email protected] / www.kkt-kall.de
1.2.3 Labels
1.2.4 Caps and Closures
BERICAP GmbH & Co. KG
Kirchstr. 5
D - 55257 Budenheim
Germany
Tel. +49 (6139) 2902 0
Fax +49 (6139) 2902 181
www.bericap.com
Idsteiner Strasse 74
D-65527 Niedernhausen,
Germany
Tel. +49 6127 8954 + 8850
Fax +49 6127 78189
www.cct-gmbh.com
www.corvaglia.ch
Gulf Packaging System Co
Post Box No. 20266
Jeddah - 21455
Saudi Arabia
Tel +966 (02) 636-0099
Fax +966 (02) 635-2111
www.gulf-pack.com
Has Plastik San.Tic.A.S.
Esenyurt Fabr.Yolu No:74
34320 Avcilar
Istanbul Turkey
Tel +90 212 695 50 00
Fax +90 212 694 97 24
www.hasplastik.com
INJECTOPLAST Kunststoff- verarbeitungs- gesellschaft mbH
3830 Waidhofen/Thaya - Austria
Tel. 0043 2842 52572 0
offi [email protected]
www.injectoplast.at
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Georg Menshen GmbH & Co. KG
Industriestraße 26
D-57413 Finnentrop
Tel.: +49-2721-518 0
Fax: +49-2721-518 198
EMPTY BOTTLE INSPECTION SYSTEMP&S technology Co. Ltd #326-1, Taejeon-dongGwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do464-805, KoreaTel.: 0082-31-763-5621Fax: [email protected]
www.menshen.com
Creative Dispensing Solutions
Seaquist Closures Löffl er GmbH
D94078 FREYUNG
Tel : + 49 8551 9750
Fax : + 49 8551 975 180
www.seaquistclosures.eu
2.0 MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT
2.1 Preform production(machines and equipment)
PREFORM and CAP Production
Hong Kong
Tel: 852-2665 3888
Fax: 852-2664 8202
www.chenhsong.com.hk
NETSTAL-MASCHINEN AG
Tschachenstraße
8752 Naefels, Switzerland
Tel. 0041-55-618-6111
Fax 0041-55-618-6605
www.netstal.com
2.2 Bottle production(machines and equipment)
Nissei ASB Machine Co., Ltd.4586-3 Koo, Komoro-shi, Nagano-ken 384-8585, JapanTel. 0081-267-23-1565Fax [email protected]
Automa Spa
„one step“ injection-stretch blow
moulding and injection blow
moulding machines
Bologna - Italy
tel. +39-051-739597
fax +39-051-739578
B&G®XT Model PET Blow Machines.
B&G® Spare Parts for reheat blowers
Sidel®; Cincinnati RHB’s; Krones®;
Corpoplast® (Krupp); MAG-Plastics®;
SIPA®; Nissei®; and other brands.
www.bgproducts.com
KHS Corpoplast
KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KG
Meiendorfer Str. 203
22145 Hamburg
Deutschland
T +49 40 67907-0
F +49 40 67907-100
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.valueaddedbottling.com
Norgren AG
Ventilfabrik
Postfach
8362 Balterswil, Switzerland
Tel +41 71 973 83 00
Fax +41 71 973 83 01
www.norgren.com/sbm
Eugen Seitz AG Spitalstrasse 204
8623 Wetzikon, Switzerland
phone: +41 44 931 80 80
fax: +41 44 931 80 90
www.seitz.ch
P.E.T. parts specialist
Krones®, Sidel®, KHS®, SIPA®, others
Wide Diversify Inventory available
To help you saving money and time
www.umallette.com
2.2.1 Single stage stretch blow moulding equipment
2.2.2 Two stage stretch blow moulding equipment
Amsler Equipment Inc.Swiss Engineered - Canadian Built 1245 Reid St, Toronto,
Canada L4B1G4
Phone 905 707 6704
www.amslerequipment.net
No.20, Lane 74, Fuda N. Rd.,
Dali City, Taichung County 412,
Taiwan
Tel. 886-4-2486-5900
Fax. 886-4-2486-1013
www.chumpower.com
MAG-PLASTIC MACHINERY S.A.
Rue Alfred-Pot 1
P.O. Box 140
CH - 1896 - Vouvry (VS)
Switzerland
Tel. 0041-24-4820-820
Fax 0041-24-4820-819
www.magplastic.com
Stretch Blow Molding Machines,
Preform Molds & Cap molds
Tel.: +86-576-84066853
Fax: +86-576-84020107
www.MegaMachinery.com
www.petkamold.com
PETTechnologies Europe
PET Technologies Europe GmbH
Austria
Tel.: +43-2622-26326-300
www.pet-eu.com
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SIAPI S.r.l.
Via Ferrovia Nord, 45
31020 San Vendemiano (TV), Italy
Tel: +39 0438 4096
Fax: +39 0438 401016
[email protected] www.siapi.it
UROLA S.C.
20230 Legaz pi, Spain
Tel. + 34 943 737003
Fax + 34 943 730926
www.urola.com
2.2.3 Coating systems
KHS Plasmax
KHS Plasmax GmbH
Meiendorfer Str. 203
22145 Hamburg
Deutschland
T +49 40 67907-364
F +49 40 67907-353
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.valueaddedbottling.com
2.2.4 Compressors
ARIZAGA BASTARRICA Y CIA, S.A.www.abc-compressors.com
www.atlascopco.com
Oil free compressors for PET bottle blowing
Gardner Denver Ltd.
Claybrook Drive, Redditch,
Worcestershire, B98 0DS, England
Tel: + 44 (0) 1527 838600
Fax: +44 (0) 1527 838630
www.gardnerdenverproducts.com
LMF GmbH & Co. KG
Suedbahnstraße 28,
A-2544 Leobersdorf, Austria
Tel: +43 2256 9001-0
Fax: +43 2256 9002
E-mail: [email protected]
www.LMF.at
SIAD Macchine Impianti S.p.A.Via Canovine, 2/4
24126 Bergamo, Italy
Tel. +39 035 327611
Fax +39 035 316131
www.siadmi.com
2.2.5 Heating boxes for blow molding machines
OLICORP
Montbrillant 26
1201 Geneva
Switzerland
Ph +41 22 309 1540
Fax: +41 44 355 3820
www.olicorp.ch
2.2.8 Unscramblers
Unscramblers, Silos and Air Con-
veyors for empty plastic bottles
P.O. Box 306
08210 Barberà del Vallès
Barcelona (Spain)
Tel. +34 93 729 7616
Fax +34 93 718 8856
www.posimat.com
2.3 Cap production(machines and equipment)
BMB SpAVia Enrico Roselli 12
25125 Brescia (BS) - Italy
Tel.: 0039 030 2689 811
Fax: 0039 030 2689 880
www.bmb-spa.com
NETSTAL-MASCHINEN AG
Tschachenstraße
8752 Naefels, Switzerland
Tel. 0041-55-618-6111
Fax 0041-55-618-6605
www.netstal.com
SACMI IMOLA
Via Selice Prov. le 17/a
40026 Imola BO, Italy
Tel. 0039-0542-607-111
Fax 0039-0542-642-354
www.sacmi.com
2.3.4 Printing equipment
TAMPOPRINT® AGLingwiesenstrasse 170825 Münchingen, Germany Tel.: +49 7150 928-0Fax: +49 7150 [email protected] www.tampoprint.de
Fully automatic rotary pad printing machine to print up to 3 colors on closures at speeds of 1000 caps per min.Winner Screen Machines Pvt. Ltd.
W-372, TTC Indl. Area, Rabale
MIDC, Navi Mumbai, India – 400 701
Tel: +91 – 9820 888 542
Fax: +91 – 22 – 2769 9758
www.winnerscreen.com
2.4 Crate production(machines and equipment)
Werner Koch
Maschinentechnik GmbH
Industriestraße 3
75228 Ispringen / Pforzheim
Tel.: +49 72 31/80 09 0
Fax: +49 72 31/80 09 60
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.koch-technik.com
2.5 Ancillary equipment for the production of pre-forms, caps and crates
Material Drying and
Mould Dehumidifi cation
Eisbär Trockentechnik GmbH.
A-6840 Götzis
Tel.Nr. 0043 5523 55558 0
[email protected] www.eisbaer.at
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R&D -Integrated Solutions In PlasticsLeverage - Integrated Industrial DesignHamilton Road
Sutton-in-Ashfi eld
Nottinghamshire, NG17 5LD
England
Tel: +44 1623 556287
Fax: +44 1623 552240
www.rdleverage.com
1009 SE Browning Avenue
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
MO. 64081, USA
Tel: +1 816 525 0353
Fax: +1 816 524 5068
www.rdleverage.com
PREFORM MOULDS / STRETCH BLOW MOULDS Tel: 0039 071 7500214
Fax: 0039 071 7501958
[email protected] · www.simexitaly.it
TOOLING PREFORM
SYSTEMS BV
Moulds & Robotics
PET-related Services
& Technologies
C. Houtmanstraat 42
Emmen, The Netherlands
Tel +31 (0) 591 679768
Fax +31 (0) 591 630616
[email protected] · www.tps.nl
3.1 Preform moulds
www.wtbvc.com
Preform Moulds, Components,
Refurbishments and Conversions.
Highest Quality, Fastest Delivery,
Lowest Cost.
United States - 937-898-8460
Poland - 48-17-860-1020
UK - 44-1623-658-416
Argentina - 54-11-4753-1111
Green Box S.r.l.Cooling systems - cap coolers - mould dehumidifi ersTel. +39 049 9703319Fax. +39 049 [email protected]
motan-colortronic gmbhOtto-Hahn-Straße 14
61381 Friedrichsdorf
Tel.: +49 6175 792 167,
Fax +49 6175 792 284
www.motan-colortronic.com
Tel. +39 041 57 99 111
www.piovan.com
2.5.3 Dryers
200 West Kensinger Drive
Cranberry Township, PA 16066, USA
Tel.: +1-724-584-5500
www.conairgroup.com
3.0 SUPPLIERS FOR STRETCH BLOW MOULDS AND PREFORM MOULDS
Molds, Change Parts, SBM and
Injection Molding Machinery for
the PET/Bioplastics Industries
284 Pinebush Road
Cambridge Ontario
Canada N1T 1Z6
Tel: 001-519-624-9720
Fax: 001-519-624-9721
www.hallink.com
Production of blow moulds and PET mould partstel.: +359 32 606 821
fax: +359 32 606 888
offi [email protected]
www.itd.bg
KHS Corpoplast
KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KG
Meiendorfer Str. 203
22145 Hamburg
Deutschland
T +49 40 67907-0
F +49 40 67907-100
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.valueaddedbottling.com
Specialist for PET Preform Injection Mold, Injection Stretch Blow Mold & PET Blow Moldwww.moltechkorea.com
Tel : + 82-11-224-1571 /
+ 82-32-684-0153
Fax: + 82-32-684-0139
for North American market
for International market
www.petkamold.com
www.pmci-solutions.com
Otto Hofstetter AG
Zürcherstrasse 73
8730 Uznach, Switzerland
Tel. +41 55 285 22 11
Fax +41 55 285 22 44
www.otto-hofstetter.com
PET preform Moulds,
Closure & Cap Moulds
www.passcard.com.tw
www.wtbvc.com
Blow Molds for All Technologies,
All Machine Types, All Sizes.
Highest Quality, Fastest Delivery,
Lowest Cost.
Canada - 905-574-0010
Poland - 48-81-820-5730
UK - 44-1623-658-416
China - 86-137-646-05384
Argentina - 54-11-4753-1111
3.2 Stretch blow moulds
Awanti Polymoulds Pvt. Ltd.
25/5A/1/2, Nanded, Sinhagad Rd.,
Pune - 411 041, INDIA
Telefax: - 91 20 24392805
www.awantipolymoulds.com
PET engineering, bottle design, Prototyping, industrial blow mould and services -Rue du buisson Moreau 16100 Cognac FRANCETel : 0033 (0)5 45 36 63 [email protected]
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Solent Mould Tools Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 23 9223 9950
SMT Americas Inc.
Tel: +1 905 315 9882
www.solentmouldtools.co.uk
3.3 Cap moulds
www.cantoni.biz
www.corvaglia.ch
z-werkzeugbau-gmbh
Hoechster Strasse 8
6850 Dornbirn, Austria
Tel. 0043-5572-7272-720
Fax 0043-5572-7272-8620
offi [email protected]
www.z-moulds.com
3.6 Mould Cleaning
4.0 FILLING / BOTTLING
www.sipa.it
4.1 Bottle handling and preparation
4.2 Beverage preparation
4.3 Filling machines
4.3.4 Aseptic fi lling lines
Aseptic fi lling lines
12 route de Mamers - BP 46
72402 LA FERTE BERNARD
Cedex
Tel.: (33) 2 43 60 28 28
Fax: (33) 2 43 60 28 39
www.serac-group.com
4.4 Labellers and capping machines
P.E. LABELLERS S.p.A.
Via Europa 25
46047 Porto Mantovano (MN), Italy
Tel.: +39 0376 389311
www.pelabellers.it
4.4.1 Labelling machinery
Shrink Sleeve Machines
Via IV Novembre, 54
20019 Settimo Milanese (MI)
Tel: +39 02 3286 181
info@fi npac.it · www.fi npac.it
GERNEP GmbH
Benzstraße 6
D-93092 Barbing
Tel: +49 9401/9213-0
Fax: +49 9401/9213-29
Email: [email protected]
www.gernep.de
DEMO Design and Moulds
31020 San Vendemiano (TV) - Italy
Tel.: +39 0438 409048
Fax: +39 0438 409046
www.designandmoulds.com
MEL Machinefabriek
Etten-Leur B.V.
Pauvreweg 11
4879 NJ Etten-Leur, Netherlands
Tel. 0031-76-5015655
Fax 0031-76-5016532
www.machinefabriek-el.nl
Engineering & Production ofComplete ISBM TOOLING sets for AOKI, NISSEI, etc.
www.petkamold.com
RÖDERS GMBH
Scheibenstr. 6
29614 Soltau, Germany
Tel. 0049-5191-603-53
Fax 0049-5191-603-36
www.roeders.de
PET packaging, blow molding equipment and molds Octeville-sur-mer, BP 204
76053 Le Havre cdx - France
Tel: 0033 (0)232 85 86 87
www.sidel.com
4.5 Downstream equipment
ZECCHETTI S.R.L.
Via Galileo Galilei, 1-1A
42027 Montecchio Emilia RE,
Italy
Tel. 0039-0522-867-411
Fax 0039-0522-866-034
www.zecchetti.it
5.0 RECYCLING
Chemical products and solutions
for PET recycling. Cleaning
agents, antifoams, products to
improve fl otation and fl occulants
for waste water treatment.
CHT R. BEITLICH GMBH Bismarckstraße 102
D-72072 Tübingen
Tel +49 7071 154-0
Fax +49 7071 154-290
www.cht.com
Bühler AGThermal ProcessesCH-9240 UzwilT +41 71 955 3466F +41 71 955 [email protected]
PET-Recycling PlantsConsulting & EngineeringComplete Solutions
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mHerbold Meckesheim GmbHPET Granulators, Agglomerators, Shredders, Complete PET washing and recycling linesIndustriestrasse 33
74909 Meckesheim
Tel.: 06226 - 932 – 0
Fax: 06226 - 932 – 495
www.herbold.com
PET Chemical treatments:
Cleaners, fl otation compounds
and additives
Via Vigevano 61
28069 - San Martino di Trecate
Novara - Italy
Tel. 0039-0321789770
Fax 0039-0321789765
5.6 Melt fi ltration, screen changers
5.8 Complete recycling plants
Complete PET recycling plants, FDA approved, integrated IV increase without Pellet-SSP, process features lowest overall energy consumption, more than 100 plants supplied to industry. EREMA GMBH
Unterfeldstr. 3
4052 Ansfelden/Linz, Austria
Tel. 0043-732-3190-0
Fax 0043-732-3190-23
www.erema.at
“PET washing and recycling plants, turnkey and modules for B2B, fi ber, sheet”SOREMA division of PREVIERO N.srl
Via per Cavolto 17,
22040 Anzano del Parco (Co) -Italy
Tel:+39 031 63491250
[email protected] · www.sorema.it
PET recycling technology:
Recycling extruders with
inline SSP (IV increase,
food-contact, FDA)
Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H.
Sonnenuhrgasse 4
AT-1060 Vienna
Tel.: +43/1/599 55 0
Fax: +43/1/599 55 180
e-mail: [email protected]
www.recycling.starlinger.com
6.0 OTHER
6.1 Laboratory equipment
6.1.2 O2 barrier measurement
Non-invasive oxygen/
pH measurement
PreSens Precision Sensing GmbH Germany
Tel +49 941 94 27 21 00
www.PreSens.de/PET
6.2 PET consultancy and support services
6.3 Contract manufacturers
6.3.2 Suppliers of custom designed bottles
Engineering P.E.T. since 1980
30037 Scorzè (Venice / ITALY)
www.novapet.it
P.E.T. Engineering Srl
Via Celtica 26
31020 San Vendemiano (TV), Italy
TEL + 39 0438 403069
FAX +39 0438 408420
www.petengineering.com
7.0 USED MACHINERY
MachinePoint Used Machinery
Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo
Edifi cio C.E.E.I. - 2.01
E-47151 Valladolid (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34 983 549 900
Fax: +34 983 549 901
www.machinepoint.com
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PETpatents
www.verpackungspatente.de
Multilayer bottle International patent No. WO 2009 / 133783 A1Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co. Ltd., Tokyo (JP) Date of application: 20.4.2009
The concept, design and manufacturing process for a plastic bottle with an impermeable gas-proof layer.
Shaped container International patent No. WO 2008 / 088824 A1Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta (US) Date of application: 17.1.2008
A plastic container designed to hold a carbonated beverage. The con-tainer is so shaped that after open-ing it supports the pressure applied by the user’s fi ngers and does not suddenly collapse. This type of container is also easy to stack and does not roll away on its own.
Tamper evidence International patent No. WO 2009 / 128640 A2Applicant: Chul Park, Gyeonggi-Do (KR) Date of application: 14.4.2009
A ring with two inter-reactive substances is fi tted around the neck of a bottle. When the bottle is fi rst opened this ring is broken, the two substances react with each other and the colour of the ring changes. Thus a bottle that has previously been opened is easy to recognise.
Container with separate handle European patent No. EP 2110335 A1Applicant: Toyo Seikan Kaisha Ltd., Tokyo (JP) Date of application: 26.5.2006
A hot-fi ll container has an adequate surface to compensate for the changes in pressure and a feature to allow the secure fi xing of a handle.
RFID in the cap European patent No. EP 2123570 A1Applicant: Toyo Seikan Kaisha Ltd, Japan Crown Cork Co. Ltd., Tokyo (JP) Date of application: 17.3.2008
A cap is described which allows the fi tting of an RFID label and sure reading of the data even under diffi cult conditions. It also includes a degree of moisture proofi ng.
Insulate preform International patent No. WO 2009 / 158397 A1Applicant: Plastic Technologies Inc., Holland (US) Date of application: 24.6.2009
Improvement and procedure for the manufacturer of a container made from a preform which is given an additional outer layer of foamed material. The international application describes the advantages of this container with an insulating layer.
