PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2014

ON SITE 50 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 09/14 www.petpla.net Five caps production lines of Sacmi installed in Vitaqua GmbH, Breuna At their major facility in Breuna, Kassel region, Viat- qua GmbH has installed five of Sacmi’s Continuous Compression Moulding (CCM) lines, manufacturing caps with a diameter of 28mm (standard 1881) and a weight of about 2g, with per-line output rates of approximately 1,500pcs/min. More significantly, as Mr. Reinhold Juelg, R&D Man- ager at Vitaqua, points out, “the advantages associated with this technology, compared to injection, allow us to work at lower extrusion temperatures with significant energy savings”. For Vitaqua, that advantage is enhanced by the fact that water cooling flow rate temperature is in the range of 20-25°C, meaning, according to Juelg, that “the water in the circuit only needs cooling in the summer months. Sacmi technology, used in conjunction with the correct masterbatch, minimises waste and gives the line overall efficiency: on the basis of random testing effected on a 10-hour production run, 900,000 caps were pro- duced and only 35 faulty ones rejected. Average cap weight is consistent. In the bottling line, since the caps production equipment has gone online, the percentage of bottles with caps incorrectly applied due to dimensional variations has dropped from up to 0.5% to below 0.02%”. “That was one of the decisive criteria”, says Mr. Juelg. Since the installation of the caps production lines, the number of complaints received from the three German plants belonging to the Beverage Group since start-up in March 2013 until today has been reduced to zero. www.sacmi.it PETnology/tecPET GmbH | Regensburg, Germany Phone: +49 941 870 23 74 | Fax: +49 941 870 23 73 info@petnology.com PET Passion Week 2014 NUREMBERG, GERMANY ˎ 129(0%(5 &21)(5(1&( 129(0%(5 www.petnology.com Supported by: Lead Sponsor: 3(7 $7 %5$8%(9,$/( 129(0%(5 www.pet-arena.com ON site