Focusing on packaging sustainability & efficiency
Nissei ASB, hall 14 – booth B38
Three of four Nissei ASB machines being demonstrated will be making their global debuts at the K’ show 2022. The first global debut is the PF36/9-12000, a 1.5-step injection stretch blow moulding machine producing a 12 l bag-in-box super light-weight container for water server. The second debut is the ASB-12M-2INJ: A 1-step double layer injection stretch blow moulding machine producing a 300 ml airless pump bottle with PET outer & PP inner layer. And finally the third debut is a PM-100/111N. A vertical clamp compact preform injection moulding machine producing 13.5 g preforms at a speed of 14,700 pph.
Nissei ASB will also demonstrate live moulding of a returnable & refillable PET bottle on an HSB-4N machine using its well-established double blow heat-set process via its HSB series reheat stretch blow moulding machines. A 1 l sparkling water bottle with 1.5 gas vol., designed compatible with popular German industry standard for sparkling water, with a weight of 53 g serves as sample. With an rPET content of 30% the reuse cycles are more than up to 25 times.
The double blow heat-set process that is the main feature of the HSB series machines, generates high crystallinity (density) of the material together with less stress in the moulded bottle which combine to provide improved thermal stability and greater resistance to environmental stress cracking, ensuring high reusability rates even at much lighter weight than current industry standards. In a typical production scenario, a single HSB-4N machine will produce up to 20 million returnable & refillable PET bottles per year, and with each having a lifetime of more than 25 cycles, represents the equivalent of 500 million single use bottles, says Nissei ASB. At end of life, refillable PET bottles can be bottle-to-bottle recycled or converted into rPET for other new products, typically reducing their carbon footprint by an additional 25%.
ASB is no stranger to the returnable & refillable PET bottle industry; the company developed and launched the first returnable & refillable PET bottles for juices and soft drinks in the German market during the country’s first “green wave” way back in 1989. With the resurgence in interest and public demand for refillable packaging, not only in Germany but also globally, ASB is well placed to take advantage by utilising its broad packaging expertise as well as its capable moulding equipment.
12l bag-in-box for water server
The bag-in-box water delivery service is already an established market in Japan where Nissei ASB has been a key player, providing moulding solutions for the popular sized 12 l and 9 l light-weight PET water containers. This packaging concept provides a wide range of benefits at the point of delivery, for consumer safety, and contributes to sustainability by reduction of resin consumption.
Airless pump double layer container
ASB’s patented double layer moulding process enables containers to be moulded with an inner and outer layer in the body and/or neck section in a variety of thicknesses, configurations, moulding order, or resins as required to provide additional flexibility and value to the moulded product. The ASB-12M-2INJ is based on the ASB-12M model, re-engineered with twin injection units and a six-station rotary table that comprise two separate injection and cooling stations.
Preform moulding machine
The K’ show 2022 marks the global debut of ASB’s new PM-100, compact injection machine, developed for preform manufacture where small to medium scale production of high quality preforms is required. In keeping with ASB’s design philosophy, the PM-100 utilises vertical clamping with mould indexing being conducted by a rotary table traversing through injection, cooling and eject stations with operations being carried out simultaneously in each station. A complete set of lip cavities is mounted at each station so that moulded preforms remain held by the neck until final ejection from the machine. The machines will be displayed at the show with a full line of matched moulding ancillary equipment that the company is able to supply, such as preform unscrambler, chillers, compressors, mould temperature controllers, etc. ASB’s booth will also be exhibiting a range of developments and packaging technologies including Zero Cooling, heat resistant PET containers, bag-in-box, canted/tilted neck bottles, HDPE bottles by ISBM, thick wall / base cosmetic bottles, etc.
