Sipa opens its house
Sipa’s latest Open House in Italian Vittorio Veneto drew customers from all over the world for a first look at a line taking PET pellets to filled and capped bottles via Xtreme preform injection-compression moulding, latest generation bottle blowing, and Flextronic filling. They also saw a brand-new baby stretch-blow moulding machine, which is already up and running. The new Xtreme Sincro Cube system and the Xtra 14 SBM unit were put through their paces every day from October 22 to 26.
The Xtreme Sincro Cube is claimed to be compact, flexible and easy to operate. It is also clean, since there is no intermediate handling step between preform moulding and blowing. For the same reason, preforms don’t suffer any scratching. Energy consumption is minimised too, since the preforms only go through minimal reheating prior to blowing.
Sipa unveiled its Xtra family of SBM machines only a few months ago, but it is growing already. At the Open House was the latest model, which has 14 blowing cavities. All Xtra units offer the highest unit output in the sector: 2,550bph per cavity. That’s down in large part to the extra-wide processing angle they have, which allows for stress-free blowing at high speed. Once again, reduced energy consumption is a key feature too. All this adds up to the best TCO in the market.
In November (19 to 23), Sipa has a second Open House, where it will premiere the fourth generation (GEN4) of its Xform preform injection moulding system, as well as its smallest injection-stretch-blow moulding machine, the 25t ECS SP 25.
