Sipa Spa., Italy
Sipa will be in Hall 4.1 on booth C07 at Chinaplas 2022, providing information on its latest developments in PET packaging design, processing equipment and moulds. Innovations will be highlighting in multimedia presentations including production and upgrades for preform injection moulds, their refurbishment (where Chinese plant in Hangzhou is very strong), to stretch-blow moulding moulds and machines, as well as systems processing post-consumer recyclate.
For example, XForm Gen4 preform moulding systems can now be equipped with moulds made by Sipa that have 200 cavities – up from the previous maximum (already a market-leading figure) of 180. In China Sipa’s SFL linear stretch-blowing system is very well known especially for large size containers, both one-way such as collapsible or refillable with handle as the machine is quite a reference for in-mould handle containers. As matter of fact, though, SFL are machines featured for producing a range of containers that is covering virtually all the specialties for the most diverse applications.
The Xtreme Renew, a solution for the circular economy, with its ability to produce preforms for food-contact applications directly from 100% post-consumer flakes – providing important savings in energy over alternative recycling technologies as well as systems processing virgin PET.
China has for a long time been an important market for Sipa. The company has operated a subsidiary– Sipa Machinery Hangzhou (SMH) – for many years. It employs close to 200 employees, involved in commercial activities, mould manufacturing and servicing, as well as a team of skilled packaging designers and engineers that is working very close to customers to provide new design & engineering both for preforms and bottles. The plant, extended over a total area of around 6,000 m2, has the capacity to produce up to 800 injection stacks and 300 blowing moulds every month.
PET, with its applications in food and beverage, chemical, medical and pharmaceutical fields, is one of the high-tech industries supported by the Chinese state. With market demand still increasing, Sipa expects local growth in the PET packaging sector to continue at high speed.
What is changing is the increasing emphasis on recycling and the use of rPET in a growing number of food and non-food applications. At the same time, Sipa remains at the forefront of developments in container lightweighting, whether the PET material used is virgin or recyclate.
