Closure portfolio & injection mould technology
Corvaglia, hall 12 – booth 36-02
Alongside the latest closure solutions, Corvaglia will unveil the “adaptive flex-band” injection mould technology. This technology is claimed to combine different – and in some cases conflicting – requirements of beverage bottlers and consumers. Above all, the technology is intended to offer advantages for tethered caps: the key objective for beverage bottlers is finding closure solutions that can be easily applied to the bottles on an industrial scale. This makes it easy to ensure high productivity and reduce scrap at the same time. For this purpose, a flexible tamper-evident band has become established for conventional closures.
Consumers, in turn, prefer a convenient opening and closing experience. Consumer tests have revealed that this requires locking it in the open position with a large opening angle. The locking mechanism requires hinges, which are produced in the injection moulding process using slides in the injection moulds in Corvaglia’s solution. Slides can be used to design a wide range of different hinges.
Combining both requirements in a single closure solution is difficult to implement from a technological point of view. Thanks to the new injection mould technology, however, Corvaglia considers itself now in a position to combine these two demands. The company’s sales representatives from all regions of the world will be on hand at the fair to explain the technology in detail.
