PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2013

EDITOURS REPORTS 26 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 09/13 www.petpla.net MHT MOLD & HOTRUNNER TECHNOLOGY Dr. Ruben-Rausing-Str. 7 | D-65239 Hochheim/Main Tel. +49(0) 6146-906-0 | www.mht-ag.de Make the most of your machine – with a mold from MHT! For many machine types, we supply the mold with the highest cavitation, thereby enabling optimum preform output. For the Husky HyPET machines, we offer upgrade sets for up to 50% more preforms, without refitting on the machine! • 60 cavities for Netstal PETline 2000 • 96 cavities for Husky HyPET 300, • 112 cavities for KraussMaffei 350 Engineering made in Germany 128 for HyPET 400 + 1/C35 Booth B3/441 A glimpse of the new installation; at the moment running the sleeve-type labels for PET bottles. But it is not only the school milk packaging that repre- sents an important market segment, almost all milk deliv- ered to the man or woman in the street is via flow-pack. In the labels sector, Big Boys Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola switched some three years ago from sleeve-type labels to roll feed labels. ILB has, of course, gone down the same route and adapted its production accordingly. In the case of the printing sector particularly, this involves a large number of printing rollers in a very wide range of diameters. Roberto: “Because each supplier will have bot- tles with widely differing diameters, they are likely to need labels of appropriate length. This has meant our having to invest in printing rollers to ensure that we can offer each and every format to our customers”. However, sleeve-type labels are continuing to be processed by local suppliers. Around 24 t of labels leave the plant stores each year and the trend is rising. ILB blows the major part of the foils themselves. Sev- eral single-ply installations and a three-ply system are used exclusively for own-usage production. Nevertheless, the focus is on the printing technology. Here there are three technologies available: classic offset printing for paper and cardboard, flexo-printing for up to eight colours is reserved particularly for foils and labels and other printing pro- cesses. ILB subsequently assembles the foils and carton. These could, for example, be cut-outs, roll feed rollers or even pouches welded on three sides. In addition to enhanced customer priority, Roberto also needed to get things moving internally. In addition to team rejuvenation, the internal flow of information in particular was the major priority. ILB decided to switch to a supplier from Brazil, who offers a production planning and monitor- ing software specially developed for printshops. The major- ity of machines also manage their data automatically but, in locations where this is not possible, the workforce operate terminals and enter data manually. www.ilbsa.com 360°