PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2013

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 77 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 09/13 www.petpla.net Engineering Excellence Low production costs Maximum output At Netstal our aim is to help you produce the perfect PET preforms: at minimum cycle times you achieve maximum output with constantly high quality and energy efficiency. And that’s no coincidence: our team of experts are always there for you – with state-of-the-art systems. www.netstal.com drinktec Munich, hall B3, stand 339 K 2013, hall 15, stand B27/C24/C27/D24 Heuft Hall B4 Booth 315 Optimising bottle flow Heuft Systemtechnik Gmbh will be showcasing new developments that are intended to make the management of highly complex high-speed processes for a bottle flow optimisation and a precise in-line quality inspection much simpler. The company says that its new product features a high degree of automation, and that new user guidance provides real support during operation, maintenance and brand changeovers. Heuft says that it has turned the human machine interface (HMI) into a machine human interface (MHI) and the operator into a user, enabling the handling of the new systems easily and safe operation even without any previous knowledge. It claims that it reduces to a minimum the risk of unintentional misadjustments and consequent compromise of product safety and line efficiency. www.heuft.com Till Gmbh Hall B5 Booth 320 Direct digital print Till GmbH, pioneer in direct digital print on containers, will present live prints with its easy to use, fully integrated smartprint system for test runs or small scale production. The system consists of a single smartprint module for printing onto cylindrical objects such as bottles or cans. Till machines enable bottling companies to directly print decoration on any container at industrial speed. The product range includes modular smartprint machines starting at 10 up to 600 containers/min. Till offers certified UV curing inks. According to Till, direct digital decoration offers new mar- keting opportunities such as reduced time-to- market to include up-to-the-minute information or limited editions up to individualised packag- ing. Minimum order quantities can be reduced to lot size one without additional costs. (see PETplanet insider 3/2013, page 32). www.till-tech.com