PETpla.net Insider 12 / 2011

PREFORM PRODUCTION 25 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 12/11 PETplanet: You have set your- selves some ambitious goals. You are looking at 40% more machines by 2014. How do you envisage achiev- ing these aims so quickly with your Netstal team? Mr Anderegg: We have consist- ently marketed the Netstal PET-Line worldwide. As far as sales and service is concerned, we will be looking at making greater efforts into establish- ing more KraussMaffei Group sales and service branches. PETform will continue to be built in Munich. The Näfels team will specify the direction development is to take, but the actual development work will be carried out in Munich as before. Thus we will be able to build on an experienced core team that will also be able to bolt together more machines than ever before. PETplanet: And maybe a quick word about your new developments? Mr Anderegg: Here at Brau Bevi- ale we are for the first time present- ing a definite improvement in material distribution in the base area of the preform. Even as regards the weight- optimised base geometries presented over the past few years, we are still getting up to 2g out of it. The secret lies in the fact that we apply internal pressure to the preform in the cooling station and thus pre-blow the base area so that the preform becomes thinner at that point. This additional process stage is integrated in the cooling station and can be retrofitted very easily, in particular for those cus- tomers who have already kitted their plant out with our cooling system with preform internal pressure. PETplanet: Many thanks, Mr Anderegg PS: The detailed article about saving material in the base area by pre-blowing the preform will be pub- lished in PETplanet Insider 1+2/2012 * by Alexander Büchler www.netstal.com EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. A-4052 Ansfelden . Austria . erema@erema.at . www.erema.at We know how. PET Extrusion System VACUREMA ® Prime to produce food contact approved BTB pellets Input: Washed PET flakes Output: rPET pellets Batch process i guarantees defined decontamination time for each PET flake • FDA and brand owner approved • Efsa approval requested via customers CIC compact inline crystallisation i • lower AA ( < 1 ppm possible) • higher crystallinity • space-saving equipment Permanent monitoring for direct food contact and IV i Very low energy consumption, 0.30 to 0.34 kWh/kg i