PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 63 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 10/13 www.petpla.net SBM - Improved energy efficiency Urola, the Spanish manufacturer of blowing machines and moulds, will be presenting its Urbi 4L all elec- tric blow-moulding in public for the first time. The company says that the new machine offers reduced energy consumption, higher efficiency in the heating systems and servomo- tor drives, air recovery from the pneumatic drives, and elimination of “parting lines”. Preforms heated in the oven are transferred directly to the mould and blown bottles are moved directly to the packaging exit. Preferential heating processes are available for asymmetrical bottle shapes and flat containers. The line can also be fitted with hot-fill technology. www.urola.com Scan & Measure Oxygen Ingress & Transmission Rates www.PreSens.de/ Fibox4 Fibox 4 Stand-alone fiber optic oxygen transmitter KHS Hall 13 Booth A75 Urola Hall 14 Booth B14 Lightweight thread During K 2013 KHS Corpoplast and KHS Plasmax will be presenting its PET bottle design solutions. For the first time at K 2013 the company will be showing its newest develop- ment: a ‘streamlined’ bottle thread. The objectives behind this latest develop- ment were not just to reduce weight but also to ensure that the bottle can be transported by an air conveyor, an option which can be retrofitted into existing lines and the performance of the stretch blow moulder is maintained. In addi- tion, the setup must be able to continue to use the caps applied in the past. All of these criteria have been met. To date, classic threads for carbonated beverages weighed 3.7g. The new development now permits an extra 1.1g of material to be saved in this area which at a line output of 48,000bph results in a cost saving of approximately €385,000/a. PET experts at KHS are currently working on reduc- ing the thread weight of PET bottles for still beverages. Another point of great interest will be InnoPET Plasmax barrier technology for PET bottles now in use worldwide and the new Plasmax+ process (See arti- cle on page 52). www.khscorpoplast.com www.khsplasmax.com Extruder equipment for PET recycling Extricom, the extruder manufacturer, will be presenting its RingExtruder RE XP/XPV series, which includes the RingExtruder RE PET bottle- to-bottle PET recycling system. It consists of different modules – extrusion process section, vacuum, screen changer, melt pump and pelletiser – and converts postconsumer waste into high quality raw materials approved for food contact. Extricom says that 400,000t/a of postconsumer PET flakes will ultimately be recycled into pel- lets that meet FDA and EFSA requirements by its RingExtruder technology. The stand will also fea- ture developments in the Extricom RingExtruder RE5XPV-28D; SideFeeder and Stuffer; parts for co-rotating twin screw extruder; and other devel- opments in PET recycling. www.extricom.de Extricom Hall 14 Booth A36