PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2014

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 19 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 10/14 www.petpla.net also informs us, Alpla also oper- ates a PET recycling plant in Mexico together with Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola FEMSA. Closures and caps The manufacture of closures and caps is 40% oriented towards Europe. The injection moulding process is used exclusively in manufac- turing and involves one-piece caps for the beverages sector. For reasons of flexibility, 48/72 cavity moulds tend to domi- nate; however, depending on the customer, there are also 96-cavity applications. In contrast to the PET business, here there are quite some converter businesses where it is more often the customer who provides the product-related tooling and Alpla produces the closures on its own injection mould- ing machine. Depending on turnover, the beverages clo- sures tend to be the dominant factor here.  30% beverages closures incl. cartonised applica- tions  70% others With the acquisition of Injectoplast, the production operation for plastic closures in Waidhofen, Austria, the company is now also expand- ing within the standard closure caps business; up to this point in time, the focus has been more on customer-specific solutions. Operations focus- ing purely on closures and caps are only to be found in Germany, Austria and the USA, otherwise the capacities form an integral part of the individual business operations in the indi- vidual countries. www.alpla.com Q Preform sterilization in the heating tunnel Q Protected conveying of preforms and bottles Q %QORNGVGN[ J[IKGPKE ƂNNKPI CPF ECRRKPI RTQEGUU The UCF BloFill monoblock from KHS – with fully enclosed hygiene housing Give your sensitive beverages more private space. Learn more at www.khs.com or scan the QR code. Brau Beviale 2014 November 11–13 | Hall 5 | Booth 147