PETpla.net Insider 08 / 2014

ITALIAN SUPPLIER 11 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 08/14 www.petpla.net From preform to bottle, everything from a single source by Waldemar Schmitke This slogan, from Sipa, neatly encapsulates the philosophy that drives the company’s PET container production and development strategy. The company, headquartered in Italy, also operates a workshop for moulds in China enshrining Sipa’s dedication to its range of machinery and development focus. Included in the range, alongside traditional preform injection moulding machines, we find new developments in the xtreme series using rotary injection and compression technology. Alexander Büchler and Gianfranco Zoppas in conversation in front of an xform 500 with 96 cavities In the stretch blow moulding sector, there are single-stage and two-stage machines in the range, in both linear and rotary construction. The injection and blow moulds come from the company’s own capacity, manufactured for its own machin- ery projects as well as for third party products. Rounding off the range are complete bottling lines that can incor- porate filling, capping, labelling, wrap- ping and palletising. On the next stage of our edito- rial tour we have the opportunity to visit the main workshops in Vittorio Veneto and here we meet Gian- franco Zoppas, President of Zoppas Industries, to which Sipa belongs and Roberta Gualtieri, Marketing Manager and Matteo Tagliaferri, Marketing and Communication, Sipa Filling & Packaging Division. With the exception of the assembly plant for bottling lines and palletisers in Parma, all the other Italy-based activities are to be found here on site, spread over three plants. Plant No.1 This houses the mould construc- tion facility. Preform moulds from one to 144 cavities, incorporating the company’s own hot runner technol- ogy, are manufactured and assembled here for own machine projects as well as for third party machine manufactur- ers. This also applies to blow moulds in the 2-stages sector. Only the complete mould sets for the 1-stage machines are manufactured exclu- sively for Sipa’s own lines. Prototyping and testing facilities and the labora- A first glance of EDITOUR 2014