PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2011

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 40 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 11/11 www.petpla.net Closure Systems International Deutschland GmbH Hall 4A | Booth 317 Flexible maintenance Closure design and manufacturing organisa- tion Closure Systems International (CSI) has introduced a customised preventative maintenance program, called PM Select. It includes four scheduled CSI technical service visits per year, at each of which the company’s techni- cal service experts perform services, selected by the bottler from a menu of CSI’s preventive maintenance offerings. Popular choices include capper audits, capper rebuild/set-up, line capability studies, headset/spindle exchange, capper assessments, and PlasTech application training. CSI says that advan- tages include overall cost savings from multiple services per visit, as well as the scheduling of capping line maintenance several months in advance, which helps to minimise downtime. The company serves customers in carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, juices, isotonics, teas, adult beverages, dairy, foods, and automotive fluids sectors. www.csiclosures.com Stretch blow-moulders on display With over 4,000 machines installed worldwide, Italian com- pany SMI S.p.A. has over 4,000 machines installed worldwide, with capacities of up to 36,000 bph. The com- pany’s stand will feature its SR6 rotary stretch blow-moulders, which it says offer reduced maintenance and operation costs and are suitable for plastic containers covering a range of capacities, and for detergents, cosmetics, phar- maceuticals and chemicals, as well as food and beverage. SMI claims that the SR6 series is capable of producing quality 500ml PET water bottles weighing just 9.94g. Among SMI’s installed estate are twelve CNC machining centres connected in FMS line, which can run without an operator by following pre-set CAM production programmes. www.smigroup.com SMI S.p.A. Hall 7 | Booth 716 Beverage oxygen measurement Berlin-based company Dr. Thiedig +Co KG will present Digox 6.1, its latest beverages oxygen analyser, which is used for measuring oxygen in laboratories and in-line at the storage tank, after filtration, and at the filler, or for inspec- tion of tank deliveries. It is available in both stationary and portable versions. TPO (total packaging oxygen) can be integrated into the device as an option. Thiedig says that the Digox 6.1 features intuitive menus that are adjustable to daily operational procedures and that calculation of total oxygen in bottles and cans is available after 10min. Up to 500 data sets can be saved and directly loaded into a PC for documentation and evaluation. The Digox 6.1 features direct measurement of oxygen by means of a membrane-free Thiedig sensor and built-in automatic Thiedig Active Calibration. The measuring electrode is in direct contact with the measuring medium, which enables the system to respond to changes in oxygen concentration in less than 10s. www.thiedig.de Dr. Thiedig + Co. KG Hall 4 | Booth 322