PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2015

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 21 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 06/15 www.petpla.net Short cycle times, high shot-to-shot quality, low energy consumption and maximum flexibility. The new XFORM 300 with its unique 6-position post-mold cooling system boosts your output performance for the widest range of preforms. Cooling preforms faster and better, the 96-cavity platform is ideal for large runs and quick mold changes. And it lets you run any mold you want, old or new, OEM-built or not, in total freedom . From ultra-thin walled (with proprietary XMould™ technology) to wide mouth. XFORM 300 , low transformation cost, high value. SIPA S.p.A. - Via Caduti del Lavoro, 3 - 31029 Vittorio Veneto (TV) - Italy Tel. +39 0438 911511 - Fax +39 0438 912273 - e-mail: sipa@zoppas.com www.sipa-xform.com Designed to adapt. Built to last. The new XFORM 300 IMAGINE THE LOWEST TRANSFORMATION COST. IN TOTAL FREEDOM. At Ice River Springs, the 500ml bottle accounts for the lion’s share of the bottles that are produced by several Husky Injection Molding systems, which have up to 144 cavities. No additives are added to the rPET; a few blue flakes in the transparent flake batch mean that the bottles have a slight blue tinge but they help to ensure yellowing does not occur. The 500ml bottle preform cur- rently weighs in at around 8.6g. Ice River Springs also makes its own proprietary 26mm 0.92g closures, which it developed in-house and are manufactured at several of its plants on Husky systems. The company’s bot- tling lines use equipment from various manufacturers and operate at rates up to 72,000 b/hr. A large percentage of production is private label; the balance is marketed under its own brand name. Its own-brand produc- tion has enabled the Ice River Springs team to highlight its key differentiator. As the bottles are made up of 100% rPET, Jamie Gott, CEO of Ice River Springs, created the idea of green rPET for the bottle. Up till now the green-coloured portion of waste has not been processed into PET bottles but it is now appearing on retailers’ shelves under the Ice River Green brand. As far as custom- ers are concerned the concept is not unfamiliar, as green-col- oured bottles are already asso- ciated with carbonated water from, e.g., San Pellegrino, Perrier, and others. Awareness is now dawning that green can also mean environmentally- friendly, because these bottles are made from 100% rPET. The company transports the packaged bottles on its own fleet of trucks to customer dis- tribution centre, bringing back used bottle bales on their return journey. This has established an efficient “virtuous circle”, covering both the flow of materi- als and the logistics cycle. With so much meticu- lous attention to closed-loop recycling, the success of the company’s bottling operation is almost secondary but the Gott family has demonstrated significant success in this aspect as well. In the past 10 years the company has undergone significant expansion and now maintains 12 bot- tling plants in North America. Although the Canadian plants bottle spring water, the US consumer demands both spring and purified water. The Gott family’s heart remains close to the land. They recently estab- lished Osprey Organics, an accred- ited organic producer, very close to the company’s Feversham plant. The Gotts would not be true Canadians if they did not produce maple syrup, and - something of an innovation – a maple beverage. They strongly maintain their commitment to conducting all their oper- ationss in an environmentally- friendly and ecological way – which prompts the: is the Gott family business a bottler, recycler or organic producer? www.iceriversprings.com