{"pages":{"page":[{"#text":"BOTTLING / FILLING 22 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net New 3-litre bottle with recessed grip Henkel plant in Vienna launches new PET bottle line Henkel’s Vienna plant has recently brought a new KHS Corpoplast InnoPET Blomax 8 CL PH line into production, which is designed to meet the company’s specific requirements for various PET bottles between 1l and 3l capacity and with a new design of user-friendly recessed grip. The new line has resulted in lower manufacturing costs, more flexible production planning and a further reduction in the production area footprint. Detergents and cleaning agents for Austria and Eastern Europe The Henkel plant in Vienna manufactures detergents and cleaners, which are distributed in Austria and 18 countries in Eastern Europe, including Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. About 20% of production is for the Austrian market. Henkel says it is the leading manufacturer in Austria for detergents and cleaning agents, with Persil, Dixan, and Weißer Riese among the top five detergent brands. It also makes Pril liquid dishwasher detergent; Somat dishwasher detergent; Silan fabric softener; Fewa special detergent; and other products for Eastern European markets. The Vienna plant produces 140,000t of liquids and about 80,000t in powder form each year and is the largest Henkel laundry detergent and cleanser plant in the world. Production is planned to increase to 230,000t during 2010, led by liquid and gel laundry detergents and cleansers. Productivity gains have to come from efficient and space-saving plant technology. ‘Next-generation’ stretch blow moulding The Vienna plant already has four KHS Corpoplast stretch blow moulders and a fifth is on order. An InnoPET Henkel and KHS Corpoplast have been working together for decades. Those involved in the partnership include Wolfgang Hlavacek, engineering manager at HCEE (Henkel Central Eastern Europe, left), Martin Bachmayer, production manager at the Henkel plant in Vienna (right), and Björn von Lengerke, general sales manager for KHS Corpoplast. Henkel is an international company employing about 50,000 employees and with a distribution area covering 125 countries. It is active in three business sectors: detergents and cleaning agents; cosmetics and body care products; and adhesive technology. Its plant in Vienna, Austria, began producing stretch blow moulded PET bottles for liquid products in the mid 1990s. Until then, it had manufactured polyethylene, polypropylene, and PVC bottles by extrusion blow moulding. The factory is limited by its surroundings to just 31,500m² (340,000 sq ft); the change to the simpler stretch blow moulding process enabled the site to produce its own PET bottles in less space and to eliminate dependence on converters. Process costs were also reduced and the factory became able to manufacture PET products with more aesthetic appeal.","@ID":24} "PETbottles 26 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Personal Care Kill the virus! Rubbing alcohol has been proven to kill bacteria and viruses, including rhinovirus (common cold), influenza, E. Coli and hepatitis. Green Cross Vietnam is promoting its popular rubbing alcohol (70% ethyl alcohol) in newly designed 100ml and 250ml bottles with hinged lid. Sundance in PET “dm” the discount drug-store in Karlsruhe, Germany, is selling the “Sundance” brand sun protection spray in a uniquely shaped PET bottle. The 200ml orange and white bottles are based on the shape of a branded product and carry front and back labels shaped to match the container. The sensitive pump spray is protected by an overcap. www.dm-drogeriemarkt.de New Penaten Johnson + Johnson of Neuss near Düsseldorf, Germany, have incorporated attractively designed PET bottles as part of their re-packaging programme for the Penaten children’s care range. When reworking the design the brand logo has been made bigger and located more in the centre of the bottle. By using coloured printing on the inside of the rear label, and a “nolabel look” front label attractive colour and lighting effects are produced at the point of sale. www.penaten.de Leopard cream soap As part of their “Africa Edition” the discount drugstore Schlecker are selling 500ml packs of “rilanja“ liquid cream soap in a black PET bottle with a selfadhesive label printed in a leopard-skin design. The black label on the rear carries commercial and product information. The white screw-on dispenser pump can be locked in position to avoid accidental dispensing. The product is manufactured by WIN Cosmetic of Stolberg, germany. www.schlecker.com Hair protection spray in PET The discount drugstore “dm” of Karlsruhe sells the 200ml pack of “Balea” brand hair protection spray in a tall, slim, yellow-coloured PET bottle fitted with a trigger spray. The product, called “Trend it up – heat free!“, is aimed in particular at young consumers and has been designed with that in mind. A wrap-around, “no label look” label explains how the product is used and carries the usual commercial data. The red, screw-on trigger sprayer has a rotating lock device to avoid unintentional spraying. www.dm-drogeriemarkt.de Double effect in PET The cosmetics manufacturer Garnier has a 150ml pack of hair care oil in the Fructis range that is packaged in a clear PET bottle fitted with a pump spray. The double effect is produced by two visibly different product phases in the bottle, which are mixed when sprayed through the pump nozzle. A “no label look” label on the front of the bottle ensures that the two phases are clearly visible and lends the pack an extra touch of quality thanks to its partial metallisation. The pump spray is protected from accidental use by an overcap. www.garnier.de","@ID":28} "BOTTLES 27 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Printed on the inside Frankfurt-based cosmetics manufacturer Cosnova is selling the 125ml pack of “essence” brand express eye make-up remover in an attractively designed crystalclear PET bottle. The internal printing of the rear label and the “no label look” label on the front create an unusual brand image on the retail shelves, and even magnifies the internal printing on the rear label. www.essence.eu Successful in PET A high-gloss PET bottle in the typical Guhl shape, with plastic labels designed to conform to the shape and colour of the pack, and with a gleaming silver injection moulded hinged cap, clearly reinforce the success of the Guhl hair care brand. An ongoing programme of extending the range of products from Guhl Ikebana, located of Griesheim, is witness to the success of the range. www.guhl.de Blue PET for Sil The 1.3l pack of the Sil brand “1 for All” stain remover is offered by Henkel GmbH of Düsseldorf, germany, in a swirling blue-coloured PET bottle with high quality printed labels front and back, shaped to echo the profile of the bottle. To facilitate dispensing into the washing machine the bottle has an easy-to-grip, cut out handle at the back and the cap serves as a measuring cup, as is the tradition with this type of product. Overall the pack has a high quality image and is an eye-catcher on the store shelf. www.sil.de www.henkel-lifetimes.de","@ID":29} "REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 12 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net THP Group: With PET to the top Dr. Tran Qui Thanh – Managing Director Jason Shaeffer – C.O.O. At the top - Dr.Thanh on the roof of his 45 hectare empire. “You must follow the attitude of the boss when you are a worker, in order that you can be the boss in the future. Try to train yourself to become a boss, otherwise you will be a worker all your life” With slogans like this, a thirst for action, and hard work, Dr. Thanh has build up a small empire. In fact the THP Group is by far the largest soft drinks manufacturer in Vietnam and today employs around 3000 people. Tea in PET was the right choice Dr. Thanh, the founder and charismatic leader of the THP Group, has tirelessly travelled the world to collect flavours and new ideas for his business. The company started with beer and water, all of it filled into glass. Five years ago he decided to start filling tea - and the first PET activities began. At that time, nobody really believed that this would be successful. As there were no commercially available bottles in Vietnam for hot filling, Dr. Thanh simply decided to produce his own bottles and in 2004/2005 became the first hot-fill bottler in the country. In the beginning the bottles were produced on singlestage machines, but very soon the company purchased its first preform injection-moulding machine from Husky. The THP Group has probably the most extensive value-added chain among the beverage manufacturers, as they also extrude their own PE and PVC film (including printing) and make their own cardboard cases for packaging. The closure systems are entirely injected-moulded on Husky machines. Production on different floor levels – and a site of 450,000 m2 bursting at the seams At first glance the factory reminds one of the shooting locations for the next science fiction movie: the whole factory is built on giant steel structures, and the production departments are located on different floor levels. The total site area covers 450,000m2 (45 hectares)! Today the company produces tea, juices, coffee, isotonic and energy drinks on its ten hot-fill lines and two aseptic lines. If we consider only those beverages filled into PET, 1,680million PET bottles (350ml and 500ml) can be produced and filled annually, and packed in 70 million cases. It is said that the company’s key to success is the ability to “fine-tune” the During our visit to Vietnam we also met major players in the fields of edible oil and seasoning sauce. Both sectors also report steady growth. Imported material and established machinery manufacturers There was, at a very rough estimation, an annual consumption of 40,000t of PET resin in 2009, and almost 50,000t are expected for 2010. Formosa Plastics Group is at present the only manufacturer of PET resin in Vietnam. However, we found none of this material in the factories. The price level seems to be unattractive, according to the statements of some manufacturers. The first choice is still imported material from other Asian countries. In the past, the leading resin supplier was Far Eastern Textile Ltd. from Taiwan, especially for hot-fill grades. But due to the higher import taxes for goods from Taiwan many manufacturers switched over to the Thai-made Shin PET material from Thai Shinkong Industry Corporation. In the field of machinery we can see a similar picture as in other SEA countries: Husky leads the market with its injection moulding machines for preforms and Sidel is doing the same in the stretch blow moulding category. SIPA has a strong presence when it comes to singlestage machines, and is competing with Nissei. There are only limited activities by Krones in the field of PET at the moment. It seems that the company is pretty much focused on the booming beer market, which is a glass domain. Some companies also use Chinese-made machines, which are mainly for the production of bottles without any particular quality requirements. Now, with the demand for higher production capacity, companies are partly switching over to the higher capacity Western machines. In-house (or through-the-wall) production, i.e. where the converter places the blower and sometimes the injection moulding machine in the factory of the bottler, has been a common practice in Vietnam for several years. Above: Per capita consumption of non-alcoholic drinks in Vietnam and Asia Below: PET penetration in Vietnam and Asia (Figures Euromonitor, 2009) PET Penetration Vietnam Asia Water 100% 82 CSD 3% 40% RTD Tea 48% 55% Fruit/Veg. Drink 9% 41% Functional Drinks 1% 40%","@ID":14} "REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 10 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Part 1 Vietnam A nation of 86 million on the move by Michael Maruschke Vietnam is a country on the move, and it is moving fast. The speed with which Vietnam’s population has been able to put the bitter events of its recent past behind it, and focus so steadfastly on the future, often surprises foreigners. With a population of 86 million Vietnam has become the second largest country in South East Asia. And, since having launched the “Doi Moi” (“renovation”) initiative in 1986, the pace of reform and economic growth is now moving at a rate comparable to China. Vietnam achieved around 8% annual GDP growth between 1990 to 1997 and continued at around 7% from 2000-2005. The new middle class is driving this growth, Macroeconomic Data Area ................................................... 332,800 km2 Population............................................ 85.8 million GNP................................................. 88 billion US$ All figures 2010 Regional market reports Vietnam Part 1","@ID":12} "CAPPING / CLOSURES 25 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net There are technical issues as well. Low threads have a less effective opening performance as the customary opening strength of 15-17in-lbs (approx. 1.9Nm) has to be apportioned over a smaller attachment area and could prove to be problematic for children and the elderly. 1,5l preform with MHT21Light mouth Reduced weight, 1810 systems compatibility MHT and CCT concluded that the market actually required a light thread with a standard height of 21 mm. In achieving its MHT21Light, it first made the ring for the original closure thinner and reduced the diameter of the support ledge from 33 to 31mm – a diameter that has been in use on noncarbonated water bottles for many years and is accepted by consumers. The thread was then constructed to be somewhat thinner. The PCO 1810 thread pitch was retained, which meant that the new thread family is 100% compatible with the most commonly used screw caps. Conversion of a PCO 1810 production line to the new thread requires just one batch of new neck rings to be inserted into the existing preform mould. The investment cost for approximately 100 million 1.5l bottle preforms is about €39,000. The conversion achieves material savings of €126,500 €/a (at €1,100/t of PET), as the weight of the preform is reduced by 1.15 g. MHT says that MHT21Light can show profitability after just a few months. The standard MHT21LIGHT mouth has already proved its practical suitability. About 5,000 pieces were blown and filled for test purposes at a middle-sized bottling plant. In addition, these were fitted with the royalty-free MHTsaveBase, which achieves a further small weight saving because its stretchblow ratio allows the bottle base to be more thinly blown. No changes were made to the bottling plant and the MHT21Light bottles were simply distributed between the conventional 1810. The plant processed both threads simultaneously, without problem. Family of threads Starting with the standard thread, MHT21Light has been developed into a complete mouth ‘family’. The weight for the ‘Light’ version for noncarbonated drinks has been even further reduced (3.4g). The version for ‘compression-moulded closures’ has, as with the PCO 1881, a slight thickening (0.1g) in the pilfer-proof ring area to facilitate removal of the guarantee strip. The range includes ‘Hot Country’ and ‘Hot Fill’ versions; both are resistant to the high temperatures that develop during transportation in hot countries and during hot bottling. It has been quite unusual to see the 28 thread in non-carbonated water bottling, particularly in the Middle East and southern Europe. Higher filling speeds have led to a preference for larger diameters, so filling lines are primarily designed on 30/25 threads. As water bottles do not require a CO 2 barrier in the form of stable closures, threads are generally lower. The drive to lightweighting has seen three different heights establish themselves: ‘High’ (18.5mm and 3.92g), ‘Low’ (16.9mm/3.75g) and ‘Supershort’ (12.6mm/2.43g). 29-25 thread with bottle MHT now offers a thread based on the Supershort, measuring 29/25 (height 12.6mm; weight 2.4g). While the weight reduction of 0.03g compared to the 30/25 Supershort seems marginal at first glance, 100 million preforms generate material savings of 3tof PET, even at this small amount. There is a tendency towards even smaller threads in America, where MHT supplies preform moulds with 27 or 26mm thread. The light thread market is on the move and since there is an increasing request from the beverage manufacturers for ‘green’ packaging, there is sure to be further development from MHT in this direction as well. *based on an article by Sabine Kob, MHT MHT21Light has been developed into a mouth family for different applications","@ID":27} "Vol.6 PETplanet print PREFORM PRODUCTION 16 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net The Rapid Guide to Perfect Preforms by Rick Unterlander and Ottmar Brandau Troubleshooting guides have suffered in the past from being locked away in offices and not being available to the people that actually 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 Preforms” 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 floor of injection moulding 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 find help when they need it. PETplanet print vol.6 The Rapid Guide to Perfect Preforms machine no./name Continued on page 21","@ID":18} "imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Landhausstr. 4 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer fischer@hbmedia.net Ruari McCallion Tony O´Neill Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä andrae@hbmedia.net Miriam Kiesler kiesler@hbmedia.net phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 France, Italy, Spain, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49(0)6201-878925 fax: +49(0)6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Kommunikationsdesign www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Kay Krüger reader@hbmedia.net PRINT WDW Druck GmbH Gustav-Throm-Straße 1 69181 Leimen-St.Ilgen Germany WWW www.petpla.net | www.pet-point.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ subscription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net EDITORIAL dear readers, Time for PET packaging to take centre stage? In the 25 years or so that PET packaging has been around, its market reputation does not appear to have kept pace with present day concerns. Today we are all singing from the same environmental and sustainability hymn sheet. Is the PET industry lagging behind public opinion? Perhaps the time has come to face up to a new reality. Let’s put emotions and spin on one side for a moment and look at research findings – some packaging materials seem to be treated more kindly than others. Plastics in particular have come in for severe criticism on environmental grounds. How valid are these criticisms? Is there a danger that these recent studies could be misleading the general public? Let´s be clear: PET bottles use less than 70% of the energy compared to glass packaging and there is still room for significant improvements! And this does not even take into account the costs of transportation and manufacture. Refillable and returnable containers generate pollution. It can neither be sensible nor sustainable to be trucking around empty glass bottles that are considerably bigger and heavier than their PET counterparts. And what about the 60°C temperature and the 5l of caustic water the bottle-washer uses to clean these containers? Who is counting the cost in ground water pollution? From the start, PET packaging has always been more favourable in terms of container volume/ package weight and this advantage has only increased with the many light-weighting initiatives that have been or are being implemented. But let´s not forget: PET packaging is appreciated by the consumer – combining convenience and economy and this has been a powerful driver of growth.It is sad to state that we humans tend to be rather lazy about the sheer convenience of using PET packaging. We watch films like “Plastics Planet”, and it dawns on us that we need to have a mechanism in place to collect PET packaging. The deposit system we use in Germany is highly effective when environmental awareness and waste collecting systems are high on the agenda (and at times exaggerated for reasons of political correctness or spin). The deposit system should work even better in countries less motivated to recycle packaging materials. At the end of the day however, the onus must lie with the consumer to take responsibility. Better a voluntary option than a mandatory regulation. And let’s focus on the facts rather than emotion or propaganda – however persuasive. The PET industry itself can help raise consumer awareness of the issues. Let’s put aside mere considerations of energy and raw material costs and focus instead on how we can improve sustainability. We must tackle the emotional issues head-on, responding to the undeserved criticism which leads to the public perception that “plastics are bad”. It’s time for all of us in the plastics industry to put PET where it belongs - centre stage and under the spotlights. Professor Dr.-Ing- Michael Koch","@ID":5} "REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 11 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net with the food and beverage sector accounting for more than 50% of total consumption. This year the economy is expected to grow at up to 6.5%, with food processing and packaging ranked among the fastest growing sectors. Generation shift in drinking behaviour With about 90 % of the population being Vietnamese the country is very homogenous from an ethical standpoint. A high proportion (56%) of the population is in the workforce, i.e. between 19 and 64 years old. And 38% is under the age of 19. This is a major factor in the anticipated continued growth in consumer spending. And there is also a generation shift in drinking behaviour, with younger people going for RTD teas and prepacked soft drinks. Soft-drinks with double-figure growth Vietnam is the only country in SEA that has a higher beer consumption per capita than soft-drinks. However, in 2009 the consumption of soft-drinks showed doublefigure growth again. Most companies are located in the southeastern Binh Doung province, next to the north of Ho Chi Minh City. Only recently the first manufacturers have started to move equipment to the northern provinces around the capital Hanoi (estimated population 6.5 million), and surrounding provinces. Multinational companies dominate the water market. La Vie of Nestlé is the bestselling bottled water, followed by Aquafina (Pepsi) and Joy (Coke). The water market has the highest PET penetration, i.e. virtually 100% is bottled in PET. The multinational companies also dominate the CSDmarket. Until 2003 there was a steady growth in this sector, but since then the market has declined. Vietnam is already showing a trend from CSDs to other healthier drinks, such as teas and juices. Pepsi (Cola, 7-up, Mirinda) and Coke (Cola, Sprite, Fanta) are currently the dominant drinks on the CSD market, which is expected to continue to be the case as there is basically no serious local competition. Pepsi and Coke also control the functional drinks sub-category. Over the next few years the CSD market is expected to grow, but not to the same extend as other sectors. Flavoured teas are very popular in Vietnam. The annual consumption of RTD teas approached 50 million litres in the year 2009 and is the domain of local and Asian companies. The “Zero Degree Green Tea” (THP Group) and the “C2 Cool & Clean” (Universal Robina Corp) alone account for about 75% of this sector. Here Western companies have not been able to gain a foothold and are believed to have a share of less than 10%.","@ID":13} "CAPPING / CLOSURES 24 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Threadhighlights The drive to lightweighting has led MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG to seek savings from lighter caps and threads without incurring high capital investment costs.* PetCap for the new thread), took the approach of considering everything from the perspective of the bottling companies. Cost savings In addition to the modification costs for the mould, plant conversion costs of up to €250,000 could be incurred in each bottling plant, as all guides on the transport routes, the preform fixings on the mandrels inside the blowing unit, the closures and besides require adjustment. The €250,000 figure is before additional manufacturing process costs involved in adjustments. For example, the strengths applied on closing the bottle will have to be changed so as to prevent damage to the shorter and, therefore, weaker thread. An average bottler with approximately 100,000 fillings per year will find that amortisation of the investment involved in the adoption of the low thread will take three to five years, which renders PCO 1881 attractive solely to large bottlers with billions of fillings. The environmental compatibility of products and packaging is a hot topic in the beverage market. It is a matter of concern for consumers, a stipulation by manufacturers and the subject of legislation by government organisations as well. The easiest way to protect the environment is not to overload it in the first place. A reduction in the use of raw materials reduces strain in the supply chain, cuts energy usage in production and reduces waste in the postconsumer end. Thus, the use of light threads for PET bottles has advantages in both ecological and economic terms. The solution offered by PET suppliers has been the PCO 1881 standard, which is designed to have a smaller and lighter thread and cap. While the PCO 1881 standard is gaining ground in the market, PCO 1810 still retains a significant share. The reason for this, according to MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG (MHT), is that conversion to the lower thread height of the 1881 (17mm, rather than 1810’s 21mm) involves significant conversion costs for the bottling plants. MHT has launched an alternative which, it claims, ‘squares the circle’. Its MHT21Light thread family is 21 mm high but, weighing at 3.9g, it is almost as light as PCO 1881. In developing MHT21Light MHT and its partner, German closure designer CCT Creative Closure Technology (CCT is using the name ComCost comparison: PCO 1810, PCO 1881, MHT21Light Weight comparison 1810 1881 ISBT MHT21Light Mouth weight 5.05g 3.80g 3.90g Closure weight 2.70g 2.20g 2.70g Mouth and closure weight 7.75g 6.00g 6.60g Savings to 1810 on 100 million preforms 175 t 115 t Material cost savings (Basis 1,100 €/t) Savings on 100 million preforms 192,500 € 126,500 € Conversion investment costs Preform mould 75,000 € 39,000 € Closure mould 150,000 € 0 € Bottling unit 250,000 € 0 € Total investment for 100 Mio preforms 475,000 € 39,000 € Profit / Loss on 100 Mio peforms Investments 475,000 € 39,000 € Savings 192,500 € 126,500 € Result 282,500 € 87,500 € Graph: MHT","@ID":26} "NEWS 7 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net New PET facility in Rotterdam The Board of Directors of the Indorama Ventures Public Company has authorised the expansion of the PET facility at Europort, Rotterdam. The facility is expected to come online by Q1 of 2012. The project will add a new production line with an annual capacity of PET resin of 190,000t, bringing total capacity at the site to 390,000t. The total cost for the expansion is expected to be low due to the existence of available infrastructure, utilities and a tank farm. The proposed expansion is intended to increase market share in Europe, to fully integrate with the 350,000 ton PTA capacity and utilities at the same location, and to benefit from economies of scale www.indorama.com New sales and service centres for Mold-Masters Global hot runner manufacturer Mold-Masters announced on 17th March 2010 that it is expanding its sales and service organisation in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Due to its rapid business development in Asia, the company has opened new direct sales offices in Taiwan and Seoul, South Korea. These facilities offer sales and technical support, as well as a local spare parts inventory. Restructuring in South China means clients in Honk Kong will be serviced directly by Mold-Masters. In Europe, the firm has recently opened a new branch office in Barcelona, Spain, to help strengthen its support to its packaging and automotive clients in the region. It has also opened a new sales and service centre in Bondoufle, France. In the Americas, the company is opening a new sales and service centre in Toluca, Mexico. It is designed cover local sales, service, spare parts, repair and support needs for hot runners and iPET Systems. It will be in full operation by summer 2010. The business believes that Mexico will continue to expand as a production region and this new centre, combined with local expertise, will enable it to better serve its local and global clients. www.moldmasters.com Erratum In Issue 11 of PETplanet Insider (page 42), we carried an article about Husky Injection Molding Systems. Our article referred to two products, HyPETT and EcoBaseT. These names were misspelled in error, and we wish to apologise for our mistake. The product names should have read HyPET and EcoBase. www.husky.ca","@ID":9} "PREFORM PRODUCTION 21 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net 3. Check that the cooling time is sufficient for the preform being moulded. This typically ranges from about 1 to 3sec depending upon the preform gate thickness. Add time if necessary to improve gate / dome solidification. 4. Check the valve gate close delay timer and decrease as necessary to maximize nub cooling. Typical settings are 0 – 0.3sec. 5. Check nozzle tip heat settings. This area has a major impact on gate peeling. Settings too low may cause the melt in the nozzle tip area to solidify, causing a higher resistance to nub separation during initial mould opening. The settings should be raised enough to allow the nub to separate easier, yet not too high to cause overheating related problems. 6. Check to ensure that the valve gate compressed air pressure is sufficient to close the valve stems properly. Typical pressures are in the range of 8 – 10bar (120 –145psi). 7. Check hardware for worn, damaged or failed components, specifically the mould gate inserts, worn valve stems, nozzle tips, tip insulators, and clogged gate insert cooling channels. 12. Gate Peeling Table of Contents i................................................... About the Authors ii........................................................... Introduction Chapter 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 prices in EUR + VAT. 1- 3 exemplar each 129,- € 4 - 10 exemplar each 99,- € 10 exemplar each 69,- € Symptom: A torn section on the external surface of the preform, starting from the gate nub extending outward toward the dome area. Typically curly or spiral in shape. Cause: The preform gate nub has not separated properly from the mould gate during the initial mould opening sequence (core side separating from cavity side). Solutions: 1. Check water cooling temperature. This should be 7 – 10ºC (45 - 50ºF) for optimum cooling. 2. Check water cooling flow to mould. This should be at the mould manufacturers rating (for a given preform size and cavitation). 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 fax: +49 (0) 6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net www.petpla.net Order your copy now!","@ID":23} "NEWS 8 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net P E T C O R E C O L U M N Litter - old and new For this Petcore Column we are going to consider the “olden days” - a time long ago, a time when most of the PETPlanet readers were not born, a time remembered well by many of us in Petcore. Eating in the street was frowned upon. You didn’t drop litter, you put the paper in your pocket until you found a litter bin, or you took it home for the dustbin. Heavy glass bottles were returned to the shop for the deposit, or rinsed and left on the doorstep for a milkman to refill. The remaining empty glass containers and other household rubbish went into the dustbin, destined only for landfill. Plastics packaging didn’t exist. Fast food outlets were almost unknown. Bakers sold bread and a small range of baked goods. Sandwiches, cakes and pies were mainly made at home. Butchers sold raw meat and little else. Greengrocers emptied loose fruit and vegetables directly from the scales pan into the outstretched shopping bag. Carrying the shopping home was an arm-stretching task as very few households owned a car. Shopping for fresh produce was done on a daily basis, refrigerators were rare and food was kept in wire mesh “safes”, its best before date was only one day later and much food was thrown away. How different today. Packaging developments, especially the use of plastics packaging (derived from oil) has ensured that a wide range of raw and prepared foodstuffs is available 24h a day, ready to eat, completely safe and at its peak of freshness. You can buy a lunchtime sandwich, a muffin, or a burger to take away. Has the number of litter bins increased since the “olden days” so that waste can be disposed of? You see a smashed glass bottle on the pavement or a drink can rolls along the road, a smeared pizza box slides by - it’s what happens these days. Yet a plastic carrier bag, a polystyrene burger box or a PET bottle in the wrong place attracts calls for them to be banned or replaced by more “environmentally friendly/recyclable/biodegradable” glass, metal or cardboard. All of these containers have been dropped by someone. These people do not make a distinction between the materials, they just drop them on the ground instead of putting them in a litter bin (or a recycle bin, these days) or taking them home for disposal. In the “olden days” we didn’t eat food in the streets and we didn’t drop litter. Now we do both .... except in Singapore where you drop litter at your peril. In an earlier Column we mentioned the Plastiki, an ocean-going catamaran made from 12,500 2l PET bottles. Plastiki is crossing the Pacific Ocean to highlight the North Pacific Gyre, a large concentration of plastic debris the size of France and Spain combined. About 20% of this floating mass is rubbish from ships and harbours – buoys and fishing nets – but the rest is carrier bags, bottles, flip-flops, children’s toys, yoghurt pots, detritus of modern life. If this light weight plastic is not dumped directly, it is blown from littered streets and landfills and conveyed by rivers and drains to the sea or washed from littered beaches. How much of the heavy litter ie glass bottles, cans, supermarket trolleys, tyres and other carelessly discarded items is lying on river beds and the ocean floor unseen? Littering is a societal problem – it is the impact caused by a throw-away society. What can be done? The obvious answer is to stop littering altogether but it is not easy, it needs huge amounts of political will. In the meantime those masters of land reclamation, the Dutch, think they have a solution to the ocean litter problem. The Dutch National Fund for Architecture is supporting a research project by a Dutch firm of architects to assess the potential for creating a habitable floating island covering 10,000m² in the Pacific Ocean, made from the floating debris to be found there. They will attempt to cleanse the oceans of a large volume of floating waste while at the same time creating a new land space. What can we do as individuals? We can encourage by example, make sure we all dispose of our rubbish responsibly, put it in a litter or recycle bin or take it home for safe disposal. Dropping litter must return to being a taboo. In these days of conservation awareness litter must be properly collected and separated, it is a valuable feedstock. Collection can be stimulated either by punishment, as in the case of fines, or, preferably, by encouragement, for instance via deposit systems or reverse vending machines. We in Petcore believe that there should be rewards for enhancing collection methods that will maximise the re-use of the earth’s valuable resources. www.petcore.org Recycling supply stream too tight The European Plastics Recyclers association (EuPR) has said that the PET bottles supply for European recycling is too tight. Although recycling capacity has been following the increasing trend of PET consumption and collection, factors such as exchange rates, a reduction in the bottles’ weight and increased export to the Far East have reduced the output of European recycling plants. The association is concerned that for some members the situation is becoming critical as their input material is getting scarce. EuPR suggests that the situation could be improved by increasing collection ratios and focussing on local recycling. Differences by country regarding the quality and quantity of collected materials also need to be urgently addressed. It is also worried that security of supply needs to be improved before Europe loses experience and trained recyclers. The association emphasises its belief that European recycling is the key to long term sustainable resources management and that leakage of bottles to the far east will have negative economic, business and consumer impacts. www.plasticsrecyclers.eu Price rise for Austrian label and packaging firm Brigl & Bergmeister is announcing an increase in selling price of 6%-8% for all dispatches from 1st July 2010. This increase has been brought about due to the increased cost of pulp, chemicals and energy that the paper industry continues to face, combined with the strengthening US Dollar. The company says that, as Europe’s leading producer of label and flexpack papers, it has a responsibility to guarantee continued supplies to all its customers. It says that in order to do that this price rise is absolutely necessary and unavoidable. www.brigl.bergmeister.com","@ID":10} "PETnews 6 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Mann + Hummel confirm their commitment to Protec At the press briefing on the annual results of Mann + Hummel GmbH, Alfred Weber, Chairman of the Board of Management, reported that the company’s subsidiary Protec would continue to play an integral part in company strategy. In 2009 Protec recorded a sharp decline in orders of 38% compared to the previous year. As far as turnover was concerned, things were just as bad: turnover in Germany fell by 48 % and overseas by 20% . Mann + Hummel sales, however, dipped by just 8.4% to €1,672bn in 2009, despite that fact that almost 100% of its output goes to the automotive industry. The reason for this was the continued high level of stability in its filter business. In the PET sector Protec introduced a completely new product in 2009, a mould based on the turbulent fluidized bed technique. In addition the developers have standardized a large number of their products. “As soon as the injection moulding machine manufacturing sector begins to pick up, that’s when we expect to see our confidence in Protec restored “ is how Alfred Werner justified his faith in Protec to PETplanet. www.mann-hummel.com Extending market leadership – new capping system announced Peter Neumann, Managing Director of Engel Austria, presented the company’s figures on the occasion of the K Preliminary Press Conference. According to him, this was the most difficult period the company has faced virtually since its foundation. In Neumann’s opinion, even the major floods in 2001 which destroyed practically the entire production capacity of the company was not as devastating as the current situation. As he observed to PETplanet, “At that time we knew what we had to do; we had orders but no production facilities. The present crisis is, however, precisely the opposite - we have production capacity but no orders! “ Although sales fell from €591m in 2008/2009 to €358m in the 2009/2010 trading year, Engel succeeded in maintaining its high profile status on the world market in the injection moulding sector at an historic high of 13% (in value terms). In Europe Engel has also been successfully extended its market share to 27%. By way of a focus of attention at the K Fair, Prof. Dr. Steinbichler, Vice President R&D, announced the enlarged Engel e-cap with a clamping force of 430t. This entirely electric machine will be used to produce single caps (26mm x-light) weighing 1 gram in 2.6s using a 96-compartment mould. The small, wholly electric system featuring a clamping force of 280t was exhibited at PETpoint. As to future strategy in relation to PET Systems, Engel remained tight-lipped. However, we were able to view a PET System 330 on our subsequent tour of the plant. www.engelglobal.com Closure Systems International and Pact Group announce Australasian Partnership Plastic packaging manufacturer Pact Group has signed a license agreement with Closure Systems International (CSI) for Australia and New Zealand. Pact Group says that this new strategic partnership will give its customers immediate access to leading edge closure technologies, designs, and research and development. It says it is now better positioned to source and manufacture a wide range of high performance, light-weight closure solutions. The partnership will also give the Pact group access to CSI’s technical service network, high-speed capping machinery products, and new product and service developments. Additionally, it broadens the range of closures that the Pact Group can offer its bottled drinks customers. The agreement provides CSI with an opportunity for geographic expansion in Australia and New Zealand. The company believes that it will receive mutual benefits from Pact Group’s large footprint in the area and reputation for quality, new technology, innovation and customer service. www.csi.com German company branches out into new portfolio Krones AG offers complete factory planning to the food and beverage industry. The firm says that it is able to offer its customers plants with state-of-the-art technology and the best possible material flows, with comprehensive IT networking facilities. It has further stated that it is able to help factory owners with flexibility and expandability while keeping capital and operating costs low. The company has already completed many projects and is able to draw on this experience when talking to new clients. Krones AG has reported a significant increase in interest in complete factories from the food and beverage industries for various reasons, including the downsizing of clients’ inhouse engineering teams. The company believes this is a logical step forward in the expansion of its product portfolio, and feels it has the in-house expertise and experience required for the planning and building of complete beverage factories. www.krones.com Alfred Weber, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mann + Hummel Peter Neumann, Managing Director of Engel Austria","@ID":8} "REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 14 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net oil, foodstuffs, agricultural chemicals, household products, cosmetics and of course beverages, which is also the biggest market for them. The company, with a workforce of 800 people, exports about 7% of its products to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the US. This rate could be higher, but at the moment the company wants to focus capacity on the strong and growing local market. Machinery in operation: Preforms: 10 x injection moulding machines from Husky Bottles: 16 x stretch blow moulding machines (Sidel, Sipa, SIG) 20 x single-stage machines (Nissei and other Japanese brands) Closures: 4 x compression moulding machines (Sacmi, Oberburg 32 cavity) Preform production at Ngoc Nghia All of the machines are located in the two factories in the South, but it is planned to install a stretch blow moulding machine in-house at one of their customers in the North. Mr. Nam, Deputy General Director, predicts strong growth in the beverage field, especially those beverages that are healthier than CSDs, such as teas, herbal teas and sports drinks. Edible oil is also seen as a field of steady and continuous growth. And there is a trend in the field of CSDs: the previously popular 1.5l bottles are losing ground to the smaller sizes of 500ml (and even 350ml). This year the focus will be on further lightweighting of necks and closures. Multi-layer bottles for beer and other sensitive beverages is another field for the near future. www.nnc.com.vn Calofic: Market leader in edible oil Calofic – Cai Lan Oils & Fats Industries Company Ltd. Mr. Peh Ping Teik – Head of Technical Calofic – Cai Lan Oils & Fats Industries Company Ltd- is a joint venture between the Vietnamese state-owned company Vocarimex and the Singaporean palm oil giant Wilmar, and by market capitalization one of the largest companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. Calofic employs over 1,000 people nationwide.","@ID":16} "PATENTS 35 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net PETpatents www.verpackungspatente.de Hot filling International patent No. WO 2009 / 151771 A2 Applicant: Graham Packaging Comp., York (US) Date of application: 14.4.2009 A plastic container that optimise the ratio of contents to material used and also has optimised hot-fill pressure equalisation panels. Additive in the cap International patent No. WO 2009 / 140855 A1 Applicant: Zhongyi Liu, Guangxi (CN) Date of application: 14.5.2009 An easy-to-grip plastic bottle with a separate chamber to hold a beverage concentrate. By twisting the individual components of the cap against each other a membrane is broken and the products can be mixed together and dispensed. Oxygen scavenger International patent No. WO 2008 / 090354 A1 Applicant: ColorMatrix Holdings Inc., Wilmington (US) Date of application: 24.1.2008 A blended product is integrated Into the cap of a PET bottle. The product is composed of materials that react together over an extended period and release a substance that locks onto oxygen molecules that have permeated through the container walls. Closure device International patent No. WO 2008 / 089785 A1 Applicant: Seaquist-Löffler Kunststoffwerk GmbH, Freyung-Linden (D) Date of application: 23.1.2007 A cap which can be set in an interim position between being fully open or fully closed and so allow a channel to remain open while pressures equalise. Container cap International patent No. WO 2008 / 081171 A1 Applicant: Obrist Closures Switzerland GmbH, Reinach (CH) Date of application: 31.12.2007 A hinged cap is described which has easily-recognisable tamper evidence and can also be firmly resealed after opening. Improved vacuum performance International patent No. WO 2009 / 146263 A1 Applicant: Graham Packaging Comp., York (US) Date of application: 15.5.2009 A plastic container to hold fruit juice or other beverages which are filled under vacuum. The container has an improved surface area to better resist the pressure difference.","@ID":37} "BOTTLING / FILLING 23 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Blomax 8 CL PH ‘next-generation’ line, tailored for Henkel’s special requirements, has been in operation since 2009. It has eight blow stations, takes up just 20m² of floorspace and has an output of 11,200 1l, 10,400 2l, and 8,000 3l bottles an hour. It is capable of making PET bottles of up to four litres, if required. Henkel is now able to produce large-size PET bottles inline and to introduce recessed grips to large-size PET bottles. Without the new InnoPET line, the company would probably have needed four linear machines using PET granulate in a single-step procedure. The InnoPET Blomax 8 CL PH incorporates well-established KHS Corpoplast blow-moulding components, which means that many of the features are already familiar to operators and they can get up to speed quickly. Preferential heating process When Henkel and KHS Corpoplast began working together in the mid1990s, the demand for stretch blow moulded PET bottles was, primarily, in the beverage industry – which used round bottles. However, Henkel has traditionally marketed its products in oval containers. KHS Corpoplast’s first challenge was to design a stretch blow moulding process that could be applied to oval bottles in such a way that the controlled, optimum, and even distribution of material was guaranteed. It also had to use as little material as possible and produce bottles with perfect appearance. This led to the application of the preferential heating process, which was fully approved for use in the Henkel plant after extensive testing in the lab and in production. Stretch blow moulding with preferential heating process Preferential heating selectively preheats specific segments of the preform walls to different temperatures in the blow moulder before the process begins, which ensures homogenous distribution of materials across the entire circumference of the oval bottles. Preforms are held in place during heating by a mandrel and heated from two sides. Selective preform heating can also be used in the production of trigger or sprayer bottles, where conveyor mandrels achieve precise alignment by using studs integrated into the preforms. KHS Corpoplast also provided expertise on adapting heating parameters to cope with, for example, vari-colouring. The fullydeveloped preferential heating process was defined as a standard for all KHS Corpoplast stretch blow moulders in operation at Henkel, which now produces about 400 million stretch blow moulded PET bottles a year. Particularly in countries which prefer large containers, the 3l PET bottle has helped boost sales of fabric softener enormously. Bottles & Shapes program in action Since 2000 KHS Corpoplast has partnered with Henkel in the design of over 30 new variations on the PET bottle, from concept to industrial manufacture. Its Bottles & Shapes program was used in the redesign of large PET bottles with recessed grips, which are manufactured on the InnoPET Blomax 8 CL PH. A prime objective was to make PET bottles as easy to handle as extrusion blow moulded plastic bottles with reachthrough handles and, at the same time, to reduce the container’s weight. KHS Corpoplast and Henkel CEE collaborated in developing the shape of the container, using computer simulation. The selected variants were then manufactured on a lab machine that works just like production stretch blow moulders. Thorough testing and analysis ensured that the designs met all Henkel’s technical, functional and marketing specifications. Henkel in Vienna also produces ttrigger or sprayer bottles on InnoPET Blomax stretch blow moulders. The InnoPET Blomax 8 CL PH is now making PET bottles with recessed grips in 1, 2 and 3l sizes for the Perwoll, Silan, and Fewa brands of laundry detergent. In countries such as the Czech Republic, where consumers prefer family packs, Henkel’s new 3l PET bottle has helped the big bottle to achieve eight percent of the fabric softener market. The InnoPET line has an integrated ring vessel that receives compressed air that is not required to blow mould the PET bottles and feeds it straight back into the system. Henkel says that the new Airback II air return system achieves 30% compressed air feedback; the savings have led to the ring vessel being earmarked as standard for future KHS Corpoplast stretch blow moulders. The factory in Vienna plans to produce 230,000t of goods in 2010, 150,000 of which are to be liquid products. Henkel CEE believes that its high levels of investment, which facilitated innovations in both concept and packaging developed in partnership with KHS Corpoplast, will make a significant contribution to the planned increase in production flexibility brought about by the inline manufacture of PET bottles.","@ID":25} "PETproducts 28 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net PET chiller: Self adjustable and autoadaptive to processing conditions Piovan has launched a new product to improve the energy efficiency of chilled water systems. PET Chiller has been developed specifically for PET production lines and can be used in all processes requiring high refrigeration capacity, water flow and pressure. The company claims that its product is more efficient than conventional chillers as it is equipped with inverter-controlled compressors, meaning it can self-adjust its refrigeration capacity as necessary. It also uses brazed plate evaporators and compressors, which exchange the cooling power to the refrigerant and water more efficiently. Chillers are utilised at partial loads as are systematically sized with some spare capacity. With conventional chillers one can say that the lower the cooling load is in respect to the maximum refrigeration capacity the higher is the energy utilized to produce refrigeration kW. PET Chiller instead modulates its refrigeration capacity. Piovan says that the unit that can perform COP in excess of 8 (0.45kw) of energy per 1t of refrigeration power). The company has been replacing old chilled water refrigeration systems with PET Chiller since late 2009. The PET chiller is one of a number of new products it will be introducing to the American market this year. www.Piovan.com Light weighting across the closure range KTW Group has launched a range of standard closures for beverages that bring light weighting advantages to all bottles, from 26 to 38mm. The company’s KTW 13 LT 26.7mm Alaska closure uses a shorter neck – 8.8mm compared with 14.5 mm – that saves PET and is 0.9g lighter. It offers opportunities for material savings for companies that have not yet invested in PC1881 systems. KTW has developed a new 29/25 line for the coming season, which has a shorter height and is also lighter. It also announced that its KTW 9 LT 30/25 series will change to 29/25 and that it is currently selling the system for testing. KTW also makes high-performance 1881 closures for CSD; users include Coca-Cola. It is also launching a new one-piece closure system that includes an internal seal. www.ktw-group.com Vinetta for mid-tier bottlers Krones AG developped a compact labeller. The Krones Vinetta is available in sizes rated at 4,000 and 8,000 containers per hour and has been designed specifically for mid-tier bottlers. The standard version of the machine, glass and plastic bottles, jars, and shaped containers can be dressed in body and shoulder labels. An additional cold-glue station enables back, neck-ring or swing-stopper labels to be applied as well. The machine can also be fitted with a pressure-sensitive labelling station and has the option for the application of wine seals, diagonal stripes or medallions. The machine’s label magazine holds 5000 labels and has short make-ready times when changing over to different labels. It also has replaceable wear strips for the bottle handling parts. The company says that it will once again be offering bottlers of relatively small quantities at wineries, breweries and other sub-sectors of the beverage industry labelling technology that is second to none. www.krones.com","@ID":30} "MARKET SURVEY 19 Comep PET Engineering SRL Demo Design and Moulds PMCI, PET Molds & Components Nissei ASB Machine Co., Ltd. Tisse Rue du buisson moreau 16100 Chateaubernard France 0033 5 45 36 63 50 www.sa-comep.fr Frederic Mandin Sales Director 0033 5 45 32 08 08 accueil@sa-comep.fr Via Celtica 26, 31020 San Vendemiano (TV) 0039 0438 403069 www.petengineering.com Moreno Barel President & Gereral Manager 0039 0438 403069 0039 0438 408420 info@petengineering.com Via Olivera, 48 - 31020 San Vendemiano (TV) Italy +39 0438 409048 www.designandmoulds.com Mr. Alberto Castellan Sales Director +39 0438 409048 +39 0438 409046 a.castellan@designandmoulds.com Via Caduti del Lavoro 3 - 31029 Vittorio Veneto +390438911511 www.pmci-solutions.com Stefano Baldassar Sales Director +390438911511 +390438911694 stefano.baldassar@zoppas.com 4586-3 Koo, Komoro-shi, Nagano-ken, 384-8585 JAPAN +81 (0)267-23-1560 http://www.nisseiasb.co.jp Katsuo Ishiguro Sales and Markting 81-267-23-1565 81-267-23-1564 ishiguro@nisseiasb.co.jp Turker cad. No:16/B 00 90 210 527 25 08 www.tisse.net Denizhan OBUZ general manager 00 90 542 233 75 78 00 90 210 527 25 09 denizhan@tisse.net yes 30 5 10 30 20,00 100 cc up to 5 gallon Sidel, Krones, Sipa, SIG, ADS, Tecsor, SMI... yes yes no Own machines only yes yes yes Yes Own machines only yes soft, juice, water still and sparkling, alcohol, oil, homecare etc.… San Pellegrino, Pepsi Co., Efes, InBev, Spumador, Baltika, Fonti di Vinadio, Rocchetta, Acqua e terme di Uliveto, Norda, Ferrero, … yes Sidel, Krones, KHS/SIG/Krupp, SMI, Siapi,Techlong, ADS, Multipet, Dynaplast, Kosme… Nissei ASB (own machines) yes yes yes Yes: brandbuilding, product repositioning, marketing design, packaging engineering, etc… Yes yes Designs, blowmoulds, spare and personalization parts, services for all PET bottle projects. Extreme design for PET and Glass, light weight Bottle design, pilot mould production, bottle sample supply, laboratory tests on containers, supply of plexiglas container mock-up, installation and machine start-up. Wide mouth, asymmetrical, nitrogen hot fill, containers with handles, HDPE to PET conversions Double blow hot fill, non-PET, wide mouth, custom moulding NO yes Yes No Up to 144 8 cavity - 48 cavity up to 30l 10g - 400g Husky, Netstal, Krauss-Maffei, Hengel, krupp. Cincinnati Milacron, Arburg, BMB, BM Biraghi water and jars containers yes up to 96 1 to 48 up to 10l 5ml to 20000ml standard and custom Variable NO SIPA, Krauss-Maffei Nissei ASB (own machines) yes yes, for Sipa machines Yes production of pet blow molding machines Air recovery systems, rotary blowmoulder and filling lines spare parts Solent Mould Tools Ltd MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG RD / Leverage KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KG Moldintec SRL 1 Relay Road, Waterlooville, Hampshire, PO7 7XA U.K. +44 23 9223 9950 www.solentmouldtools.co.uk Mr Chris Smith Sales & Service Manager +44 23 9223 9950 +44 23 9223 9951 chris.smith@solentmouldtools.co.uk Dr. Ruben-Rausing-Str. 7, D-65239 Hochheim/Main, Germany +49 6146-906-0 www.mht-ag.de Werner Plass CEO +49 6146-906-112 +49 6146-906-397 wplass@mht-ag.de Leverage House, Hamilton Road, Sutton inAshfield, Nottinghamshire, United KingdomNG17 5LD 44 1623 556287 +www.rdleverage.com Damon Sykes Sales Manager +44 1623 552 240 dsykes@rdleverage.com Meiendorfer Strasse 203, 22145 Hamburg +49 40 679 070 www.khs.com Volkhard Adam Head of Modernization +49 40 679 07 361 +49 40 679 07 9361 volkhard.adam@khs.com Gral J. J. Urquiza 3954 - Florida - Buenos Aires - Argentina 54 11 47614441 www.moldintec.com.ar Ind. Des. Jorge Pucci Commercial Director 54 911 4146 9894 54 11 47614441 jorgepucci@moldintec.com.ar Yes yes 5l 20l up to 8l 20 Krones Yes 7000 yes yes Yes yes yes Sidel, KHS, Krones, Siapi, Sipa, Kosme, MAG & Nissei Sidel, SIG, Krones, Sipa, ADS, SIDE mainly for KHS Corpoplast InnoPET Blomax SBM yes Yes Leverage is our industrial design studio yes yes EBM for PETG and SBM machine change parts High volume with quick delivery, manufactured in Europe or USA Bottles & Shapes program, complete services from bottle design to perfomance in filling lines csd+still bev+oils no yes yes Yes no 2 - 144 2-192 cavities 48 up to 850g up to 600g, for bottles up to 30l 11g to 400g Husky, Netstal, Krauss-Maffei, Engel, Cincinnati- Milacron & Krupp Netstal, Husky, Engel, Arburg, Cincinnati, SIG, BMB Husky, Netstal, SIG, KraussMaffei, BM Biraghi, BMB yes yes no 2 to 96 2-96 cavities Up to 850g up to 600 grams, for bottles up to 30 litres Different Pitches from 50x120 up to 125x185 KraussMaffei, Engel, Cincinnati- Milacron KraussMaffei no yes no yes, all machine makes and platforms. Single stage is R&D's core business, preform size 4 gram through to 460g, 20 ml through to 20l containers. Stretch blow moulds with High Performance Petaloids (HPP) technology, that can produce PET CSD bottles with 25Bars or less depending on final shape. Moulds are used at 23 bars to produce a 1.5l Contour bottle. EOAT multi-stage Wide mouth, high performance molds, up to 8 gallon, trigger moulds, moulds for vacuum blood test tubes","@ID":21} "MARKET SURVEY 18 MARKETsurvey 06/10 Company name Petka Mold Industry Wentworth Mold Ltd. Röders TEC Awanti Polymoulds PVT. LTD. Tooling Preform Systems Postal address Telephone number Web site address Contact name Function Direct telephone number Fax E-Mail Yesiloba Mah. Yeni San.Sit. 9. Blok No:28, Seyhan/Adana/Turkey +90 3224286400 www.petkamold.com Mr.Tarik Sivri General Manager +90 532 5248990 +90 322 4282303 info@petkamold.com 58 Bigwin Road, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8W 3R4. 905-574-0010 www.wentworthmold.com Tar Tsau General Manager 905-574-0010 ext 311 905-574-0018 ttsau@wentworthmold.com Scheibenstrasse 6, 29614 Soltau, Germany 0049 5191 603 53 www.roeders.de Friedo Böhling sales manager 0049 5191 603 53 0049 5191 603 36 mold@roeders.de 25/5A/1/2, Nanded, near Sawali Dhaba, Sinhagad Road, Pune - 411 041, India. 91 020 24392225 / 24392805 www.awantipolymoulds.com Mr. Shirish Kshirsagar Managing Director 0091 98220 40771 91-020-24392225 shirishk@vsnl.com P.O.box 288 7800AG Emmen, The Netherlands +31591679768 www.tps.nl Richard Tempel Sales Manager +31625041136 +31591630616 r.tempel@tps.nl Stretch blow moulds Bottle size (max.) (in litres) 0.1l-19 10 10 20 50 Moulds supplied directly to blowing machine manufacturers yes, to some manufacturers yes Sidel India, Mag Plastic Asia, Technopet no Do you supply retrofit moulds for existing SBM machines? Yes Yes, to all brands of SBM machines. yes yes yes For which makes of bottle makes have you already produced moulds Sidel, Krones, Siapi, Sipa, Cosme, ADS, SMI, Krupp, MAG, Combi Sidel, Krones, Sipa, SIG-KHS, Mag, Siapi, Dynaplast, ADS, etc. Sidel, KHS Corpoplast, Krones, Sipa, Kosme ADS, Nissei and other major machine types Coca Cola, Pepsi, Bisleri, Bailley, Bonaqua, RC Cola, Schweppes, Minute Maid, Danube and many others Sidel, Siapi, SIG, Krones, Chum and more Bottle design service Yes yes, and prototyping. bottle design & development & test blowing & full laboratory available bottle design for water, pharma, CSD and hotfill application also. yes Specialities supply of bottle prototype Heat set energy efficient mould system, modular mould, custom heatset mould, interchangeable mould system for different platforms solutions for compatibility of moulds between different machine types, acrylic mock offered Development and pilot production of PET preforms, bottles and containers of max. 50l Preform moulds not supplied Horizontal opening Setting up a separate unit for making preform moulds, which will commence by January 2011 Number of cavities From 2 up to 96 96 Preform sizes 14 mm-110 mm Neck Finish max appr 700g moulds already built for (makes) Husky, Netstal, Krauss Maffei, Sipa Husky, KM, Netstal, SIG, Engel, Arburg, FCH, Haitian and more Vertical opening Number of cavities 96 96 Preform sizes max appr 700g Pitch 50*130 various Moulds already built for (makes) KM Do you produce single stage tooling sets? (Preform moulds AND blow moulds) Yes. Full moulds for single stage machines (ASB, AOKI) yes Yes yes Other PET moulds only:preform moulds, blowing molds, single stage moulds. Biggest toolroom in India spread over around 10,000 Sq. Ft. area, having all facilities under one roof. We also undertake repair and maintenance work of all kinds of blow moulds. The only blow mould manufacturing company in India, having ISO 9001-2000 certification Development and pilot production of all types of PET preforms, bottles and containers of max. 50l Company name iPet /Mold-Masters Europa GmbH Electra Form Ind. Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Sidel Blowing & Services Aoki Technical Laboratory, Inc. Postal address Telephone number Web site address Contact name Function Direct telephone number Fax E-Mail Neumattring 1 76532 Baden Baden, Germany +49(0)722150990 Oliver Lindenberg Business Manager +49 1622896026 olindenberg@moldmasters.eu 852 Scholz Dr. Vandalia, Ohio 45377, USA 1-937-898-8460 www.efipetmolds.com Brian Karns V.P. & G.M. 1-937-898-8460 EXT. 201 1-937-898-1750 bkarns@electraform.com 500 Queen Street South Bolton, ON, L7E 5S5, Canada +1 905 951 5000 www.husky.ca NadeemAmin PET Business Development +1 905 951 5037 nadamin@husky.ca 4, Avenue de la Patrouille de France, 76930 Octeville-sur-mer, France +33.2.32.85.86.87 http://www.sidel.com/ Laurent CHARRIER Tooling Product Manager +33.2.32.85.80.63 +33.2.32.85.81.69 laurent.charrier@sidel.com 4963-3 Minamijo, Sakaki-Machi, Hanishina-Gun, Nagano-Ken, Japan +81-268-82-0111 www.aokitech.co.jp Mr. Hiroshi Chino President's Office +81-268-82-0111 +81-268-82-3699 h.chino@aokitech.co.jp Stretch blow moulds no Not supplied for Aoki machinery Bottle size (max.) (in litres) no No 90 Moulds supplied directly to blowing machine manufacturers no Not offered yes, only for Aoki customers Do you supply retrofit moulds for existing SBM machines? no Yes yes, moulds and perso parts, repairs & refurbishment no. For which makes of bottle makes have you already produced moulds yes Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Amcor, Nestlé, Danone, Heineken, Ting Hsin yes Bottle design service no design, prototypes, sensitive products center yes, for Aoki machinery Specialities yes Preform moulds No Horizontal opening Number of cavities 2 to 192 1 to 96 2-192 Preform sizes up to 5 gl / 20 l 11 g to 735 g 723g n/a moulds already built for (makes) all major brands of PET-systems Husky, Netstal, Engle, Mitsubishi, Sumitoma, Cincinnati Milacron. Husky, Arburg, BMB, Cincinnati, Kata, KM, Krupp, Netstal, Sumitomo, Lung Meng, Negri Bossi, Engel Vertical opening not offered Please contact Aoki for details. Number of cavities 2 to 96 Preform sizes up to 5 l Pitch any Pitch: 120 x 50, 152 x 60, 152 x 65, 172 x 75, 200 x 75, 210 x 90, 230 x 100. 50 x 130mm to 95 x 190mm no Moulds already built for (makes) all major brands of PET-systems yes Do you produce single stage tooling sets ?(Preform moulds AND blow moulds) yes Yes for Husky Index (ISB) and hot-runners for non-Husky machines Other quick change preform molds; co-injection No Other Design and manufacture of moulds for wide mouth , multilayer and Home office delivery (HOD) hotfill, aseptic, barrier, EcoBase No","@ID":20} "PETcontents 06/10 4 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net INSIDE TRACK 3 Editorial 4 Contents 6 News 26 Bottles-Personal Care 28 Products 35 Patents BUYER’S GUIDE 29 Get listed! BOTTLING /FILLING 22 3-litre bottle with recessed grip CAPPING / CLOSURES 24 Thread highlights REGIONAL MARKET REPORT 10 Vietnam Part 1 PREFORM PRODUCTION 16 The Rapid Guide to Perfect preforms - Part 10 MARKET SURVEY 17 Manufacturers of mould tools for PET bottle production Page 22 Page 24 Page 26","@ID":6} "REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 15 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net Vietnam: Per capita consumption of 7kg edible oil Like many other edible oil companies in South-East Asia, Calofic has enjoyed steady growth since its foundation in 1996. Calofic runs two plants in Vietnam, one in the northern city of Quang Ninh and one in southern Ho Chi Minh City. The product range includes edible oil, either made of soybean or a blend of soybean and palm oil which is all completely imported. The company has a market share of about 45% in Vietnam and is market leader with its Neptune brand (other brands are Simply, Meizan, Cai Lan, etc). It is estimated that Vietnam has a per capita annual consumption of only 7kg of edible oil, compared to China with 17kg and USA with more than 30kg. There is still much potential for growth. Similar to the beverage field, the consumption of edible oil also shows peaks and low seasons. But these are not so much influenced by hot or cold weather, rather by festive seasons (especially Chinese New Year). Strong demand in the North - Investment in further stretch blow moulders The PET packaging process at Calofic starts with the stretch blow moulding of 0.4l, 1l and 2l bottles on Sidel machines. Total PET consumption is stated at 3,600t/a. Closures, preforms and the 25l container size are bought-in from other companies. The facility in the North, which started production in 1998, is equipped with following machines: Sidel SBO 8 Series 2 (0.4l bottles, 12,000bph) Sidel SBO 2F (2l bottles, 1,800 bph) Single stage ASB machine. The plant runs at full capacity (550t/day edible oil) and the strong demand in the North has required the purchase of two stretch blow moulders: Sidel SBO 8 Universal (1l bot- tles, 14,400bph) Sidel SBO 2XL (5l bottles, 2,400bph) In the South the production started in 2007 and tied up with the converter Dynaplast on: Sidel SBO 8 Universal (0.4l and 1l bottles, 14,400bph) Sidel SBO 2F (2l and 5l bot- tles, 1,800bph). Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L O W M O U L D S . Benef i t of 30 Years of Exper ience in Blow Mould Manufactur ing! Sidel • SIG • Krones • SIPA • MAG • ADS • Kosme • Nissei a. o. Röders GmbH / Scheibenstr. 6 / 29614 Soltau / Germany / www.roeders.de Telephone +49 5191-603-53 / Fax +49 5191-603-36 / E-Mail mold@roeders.de For our subsidiaries in China, USA and Latin America please check our website. PET STRETCH BLOW MOULDS The plant has an installed capacity of 600t/day of edible oil and runs at a capacity of 60-70% at the moment. This plant is strategically located very near to the port, which allows easy importing of raw material and supply of finished goods. www.calofic.com.vn Regional market report Vietnam Part 2 ISSUE 7+8/2010 + Bavico + Hon Chuan + Masan +URC Regional market report France ISSUE 9/2010","@ID":17} "REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 13 PETplanet insider Vol. 11 No. 06/10 www.petpla.net various flavours, collected Asia-wide, to suit the taste of the Vietnamese consumers. In the future the company wants to focus on healthy and nutritional drinks where they can also make use of the existing aseptic lines. Dr. Thanh is well known among the Vietnamese people. He personally has appeared in several of the company’s advertisements, he sponsored a successful expedition to the top of the Mount Everest where they hoisted the THP flag, and he was even seen in a movie alongside famous Vietnamese actors. www.thp.com.vn Ngoc Nghia: Everything in PET Ngoc Nghia (NNC) Mr. La Hoai Nam – Deputy General Director F.l.t.r.:Vic Kichodhan (Husky) La Hoai Nam (Ngoc Nghia) Van Nam Nguyen (Husky) The company started as a general injection moulding company for all kinds of injection-moulded products. Today one out of every three PET bottles in the market is produced by NNC. 1993: Ngoc Nghia was founded, and introduced the first PET bottle to the Vietnamese market. 1998: New factory in Tan Binh IP was established for the production of PET bottles, mainly processed on single-stage machines. 2003: Second factory was established, with a changeover to the two-stage process. However, single-stage machines are still used for the production of small and thick-walled bottles and containers. 2005: Set up in-line bottle production lines at Pepsi : Capacity: PET preforms: 2 billion pieces/year (weight: 15- 60g) PET bottles: 1.2 billion bpa Closures: 1.5 billion pieces/year (size: up to 38mm), produced by compression moulding Reference- customers: Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Vinamilk The most diversified converter in Vietnam The company is one of the biggest and most diversified converters in Vietnam and supplies containers for edible Full inspected! Sacmi Imola S.C. Via Selice Prov.le, 17/a 40026 Imola (BO) Italy Tel. +39 0542 607111 - Fax +39 0542 642354 E-mail: sacmi@sacmi.it www.sacmi.com PVS-2 in line sampling preform vision system. PVS2 system comes from the need of many preform producers to carry out a continuous quality control on their production. Preforms are checked by sampling (one complete shot every x minutes) then sent to the octabins together with the other preforms. The quality control is continuous and by sampling. The PVS-2 can be connected to any type of injection moulder or used as a standalone machine for the quality lab. The system can run at the speed of 1200 preforms/hour.","@ID":15} "17 Mould tools for PET bottle production Once again our annual survey provides, at a glance, details of companies supplying mould tools for PET bottle production. These include suppliers of injection moulds for the manufacture of preforms as well as stretch blow moulds for PET bottles. Of course, in addition to numerous local mouldmakers, the big global players are also included. A new arrival in the field this year is IPET/Moldmasters. This is a company that is aiming to establish itself as a major player and plans to ensure extensive market coverage by expanding its sales network in the Far East, Europe and America. Many companies specialise in either preform moulds or blow moulds for bottles, but there are also, of course, companies that offer both preform moulds and bottle moulds. With the suppliers of stretch blow moulds it has now become almost the norm to offer a bottle design service, but companies, that specialise in preform moulds, also provide clients with a bottle design service (e.g. Husky). Although the publishers have made every effort to ensure that the information in this survey is up to date no claims are made regarding completeness or accuracy 06/10 MARKETsurvey Company name Krones AG Simex SRL Mega Otto Hofstetter AG Novapet SRL PET Technologies Europe GmbH Postal address Telephone number Web site address Contact name Function Direct telephone number Fax E-Mail Böhmerwaldstr. 5 +49 9401 700 www.krones.com Peter Christiansen Sales Plastics Technology +49 9401 70-4980 +49 9401 70-914980 peter.christiansen@krones.com Via M.Biagi e M.D'Antona ,5 60025 Loreto (AN) Italy 0039 071 7500214 www.simexitaly.it Mr. Graziano Giuggiolini Sales Manager +39 071 7500214 +39 071 7501958 giuggiolini@simexitaly.it 47-8 Hungyan, Zheijang, China 0086-576-84020122 www.megamachinery.com Simon Cai Sales +86-576-84020122 +86-576-84020107 infomegamachinety.cn Zürcherstrasse 73, CH-8730 Uznach +41 55 285 22 11 www.otto-hofstetter.com Stefan Zatti Division Manager Sales & Marketing +41 55 285 22 11 +41 55 285 22 44 hofstetter@otto-hofstetter.ch Via Maestri del Lavoro 16 30037 Scorzè Italy 0039 340 150 85 41 www.novapet.it Edi Simionato Technical Manager +39 340 150 85 41 +39 041 44 55 23 info@novapet.it Prof. Dr. Koren Straße 10 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Austria +43 720 555300 www.pet-eu.com Walter Höbling Managing Director +43 720 555400 office@pet-eu.com Stretch blow moulds no yes APF 3002; APF6004 APF 5; UPF 5 (semiautomatic) Bottle size (max.) (in litres) 5 20l(5 gallon) 25 - 30lt 6l Moulds supplied directly to blowing machine manufacturers no Yes Sidel,Mag,Mega, ASB, Sipa, Siapi - 20% of the production no Do you supply retrofit moulds for existing SBM machines? yes Yes yes - yes yes For which makes of bottle makes have you already produced moulds Krones, Sidel, Sipa, KHS Corpoplast yesBottle design service yes yes yes - yes yes Specialities Bottle development services cutomized to filling and packaging lines with performance committments. bottle lightweigting developments Mineral water,Carboneted soft drinks, Milk, edible Oil, Wine, Beer, Cosmetics and other extrusion blow mold, stretch blow mold - non-round-containers Preform moulds Horizontal opening yes yes yes Number of cavities no up to 144 cavity 96,00 2 up to 192 48 Preform sizes All sizes and all finish up to 800g up to 500g any Moulds already built for (makes) Mineral wate, milk, oil, beer, etc. over 350 cavity per month Netstal, Arburg, BMB, Husky Vertical opening no yes yes Number of cavities no 48,00 2 up to 96 up to 16 Preform sizes 10-60g up to 500g any Pitch 60X130 various any Moulds already built for (makes) no yes yes: 13 sets Arburg, Krauss-Maffei Do you produce single stage tooling sets ?(Preform moulds AND blow moulds) No yes Other - Multilayer Moulds up to 72 Cavities, moulds for PP, moulds for thinwall packaging, moulds for cartridges full service including installation - start up - machine set up Company name Kiefer Werkzeugbau GmbH Sacmi Postal address Telephone number Web site address Contact name Function Direct telephone number Fax E-Mail Steinhäldenstraße 11 74193 Schwaigern +497138 - 9732 - 0 www.kiefer-mold.de Jörn Herget Sales +49 7138 - 9732 - 70 +49 7138 - 9732 - 92 joern.herget@kiefer-mold.de Via Selice Provinciale 17A - Imola - Italy +39 0542 607111 www.sacmi.com Marco Savorani PET Business Unit General Manager +39 0542 607111 +39 0542 642354 sacmi@sacmi.it Stretch blow moulds yes Bottle size (max.) (in litres) 10 3 Moulds supplied directly to blowing machine manufacturers no yes Do you supply retrofit moulds for existing SBM machines? yes yes For which makes of bottle makes have you already produced moulds for all kind of SBM machines Bottle design service yes yes Specialities yes Preform moulds Horizontal opening Number of cavities 72 Preform sizes all Moulds already built for (makes) Vertical opening Number of cavities 72 Preform sizes all Pitch all Moulds already built for (makes) only blow molds no Do you produce single stage tooling sets ?(Preform moulds AND blow moulds) compression moulds for preforms and closures Other","@ID":19}