PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2014

ON site 42 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 05/14 www.petpla.net With Sacmi, the beverage specialists are always at your side. With our unbeatable technological know-how and continuous re- search we are creating new containers and closures designed to ensure outstanding performance. The new IPS injection system for preforms and the CCM compression press for caps, fully de- signed and built by Sacmi, allows for large-scale production with considerable advantages in terms of efficiency and flexibility. The outcome? Reduced plastic volumes, less energy consum- ption and lower running costs. All in a bottle: the one you’ll soon be making. Preform & Closure technologically together Save RAW MATERIALS reduced plastic volumes Save ENERGY less energy consumption Save TROUBLE more quality and higher performance, guaranteed by a sole supplier Full INSPECTED online quality control / stand alone Growing appetite for edible oils The edible oil market in South Africa continues to grow. Wilmar Continental Edible Oil is one of the main domestic producers of sunflower seed oil and mixed seed oil and is responding to consumers’ new demands by continued investments. The company is well known throughout South Africa for the Excella, S’Lite, Pan and Canola oil brands and for the Conti mayonnaise, which are sold in retail stores and mass retail supermarkets. For the second time, it has invested in SMI’s packaging technologies for a PET line to fill edible oil. Less than a year into the modernisation project of the oil PET line in the plant in Randfontein, about 30km from Johannesburg, Wilmar Continental Oil has renewed its partnership with SMI for a new PET line for the 2l formats. Before completing the instal- lation of the Smiflexi LWP 25 wrap-around case packer, the APS 3000 automatic palletiser and the Smiline conveyor belts for the expansion of the exist- ing packaging plant for 350ml and 500ml bottles, new negotiations had been entered into between the two companies for the supply of a new “turnkey” line. In order to meet the growing market demand, Wilmar Continental Oil decided to invest in a new Smiform Ecobloc 4-24-6 VMAS integrated system for the stretch blow-moulding, filling and capping of up to 6,000bph of 2l PET containers and a Smiflexi com- bined packer of the LCM 30 series for the second- ary packaging of said bottles in wrap-around boxes, tray+film and pad+film. Marketing Manager Asif Moosa comments: “The new investment is part of a multiannual plan of con- tinued expansion of Wilmar’s facilities and market share made possible by the strong demand for our Excella-branded “premium” edible oil, which we sell in 2l bottles, from the domestic market and also from neighbouring countries”. www.smigroup.it