PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2012

PET products 46 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 10/12 www.petpla.net R&D/Leverage Opti-Sim cuts time to market R&D/Leverage’s Opti-Sim virtual prototyping process is designed to help PET packagers to anticipate a bottle con- cept’s impact on engineering, operations and marketing. The company says that Opti-Sim’s capacity to perform a complete range of diagnostic, real-world simulations and incorporate multiple variables helps speed time-to-market, cut tooling and prototyping costs and enhance sustainability, for both new and existing designs. It incorporates historical data from the company’s 35 years of involvement in PET packaging, rep- resenting years of development and market experience. The objective is to enable customers to “test before they invest”, according to Dave Brunson, R&D/Leverage’s Vice President of Engineering. He added that the tool’s predictive analysis simulates variables such as top load and vacuum, light weight options to enhance sustainability, wall thicknesses, geometries and other factors in addition. R&D/Leverage’s services now extend from virtual pre-testing to prototyping, tool develop- ment and full production moulds. www.rdleverage.com DRT Nutraceutics renamed PurExtract DRT has rebranded its natural extract activities under the new name of PurExtract. The company’s natural extracts have been developed primarily for the health, beauty, well-being and nutrition sectors, and are used by leading companies in dietary supplements, nutri-cosmetics and dermo-cosmetics lines. The launch of the new name is being supported by the adoption of a new image and company style. The company’s product lines have been reorganised under three umbrella brands. Pur’Expert is aimed at the well-being and health sectors; Inbio-T targets nutria-cosmetics; and Derm’Expert is designed for the dermo-cosmetics industry. A new website was launched in July. www.purextract.fr One-touch control New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM) is now offering online recipe creation through the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) on all bottle unscramblers and capping equipment. Users enter bottle dimensions into the HMI recipe selected and PLC (programmable logic control) will automatically calculate the motor speeds and ratios necessary to run the particular container. Results are then automatically stored in the newly created recipe and displayed on the HMI, which allows the customer to add containers to the machine for future setups. All NEM unscrambler models come preprogrammed for line integration, which is achieved by either hardware interlocks or an Ethernet network. www.neminc.com Don’t call it hopper. Auxiliary equipment for plastics processing. This is your hopper internal material flow, don’t worry, we’ve got the solution. Conventional Drying system 7EV The hopper has become a machine, it is able to control the process according to the result to be obtained. Now we know what happens inside the hopper and we have improved the material flow inside it, fixing the exact treatment time for a polymer. 7 patents for unlimited advantages: the choice is yours. Original Turbo eXchanger www.moretto.com MATERIAL FLOW designed by Moretto HALL 7A STAND 519