PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2015

PACKING / PALLETISING 35 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 07+08/15 www.petpla.net Neat and tidy Basic Packaging has been producing and supplying body cleansing as well as house- hold, automotive and industry cleaning products in the lower price segment for many years. The bottling operation takes place using the company’s own stretch blow- moulded bottles. It all started in 1970 with cleaning products for swim- ming pools. This is how the company got into the cleaning products business. Their portfolio has now been extended to what today approximately 25 different products are packed into 12 different PET bottles. The majority of these are made up of the transparent PET bottles complete with a sprayer or a dispenser. The plant incorporates a proprietary bottling plant capa- ble of bottling at up to 120 bottles a minute. The problem, however, is not the actual filling process but the automatic feeding and closure of the spray head. Here the tiniest, non- visible deviations from the specification will mean that the machine will become blocked. Since 1997 the company has been producing the PET bot- tles itself on MAG stretch blow moulders. These include some of the few electrical MAG systems on the market. Although the machines have been out of production for five years now, they continue to run in-plant. In the bottling section the 15 million bottles per year are routed along the floor and they therefore have a relatively high level of pressure to withstand during fill- ing from above. The top load therefore represents an intensive variable at Basic Packaging. However, weight optimisation of bottle design has still been possible here. Previously the bottle may have weighed 53g, but now the weight has now come down to 36g. An important step, because when it comes to cleaning products, the packaging costs can account for up to 90% of the finished product. www.basicpackaging.com F.l.t.r.: Mr Joe Ursino, Vice President Operations, Mr Michael Viggiani, Puchasing and Packaging Manager and Ms Loretta Romano, Owner family Premium Sponsor Sponsors