PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2015

PET news 6 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 09/15 www.petpla.net Newamstar Service Integration Brings Maximum Value for Customer Benefiting from fast development of China’s bever- age and liquid products packaging industry, Newamstar Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. has grown from a local enterprise to an important international player in packaging machinery. Presently, Newamstar provides several systems and lines for pretreatment, water treatment, blowing, filling, secondary packaging, robotic casing and palletising plus automatic warehousing for applications in beverage, dairy, alcohol, condiment, household and personal care. During the years the company supplied domestic and overseas customers like Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Danone, Nestlé, Wahaha, Dali, Otsuka, Mayora, ThaiBev, Haitian etc. An important part of developments here is the blowing- filling-capping technology, which combines these processes in one combiblock and centers on digitization and system integration. This compact line handles all kinds of PET bot- tling activities for beverages, food and non-food products. Newamstar claims being the first in China each with its different outputs of the blowing-filling-capping combibloc of 36,000bph, 51,000bph and now 80,000bph ultra high speed systems. The new machine series in the different segments of the company’s portfolio are equipped with a remote service feature which can analyse equipment operation condition by data readout in case of need. www.newamstar.com Total integration for the beverage supply chain at the “Food & Beverage Plastic Day” On 15 September 2015 Sacmi holds the first “Food & Beverage Plastic Day” to showcase project H.E.R.O. - High Efficiency Resource Optimisation - applied to the beverage supply chain. Sacmi takes this opportunity to present the new IPS 400. This preform production machine is designed to handle moulds of up to 128 cavities. With low cycle times, IPS 400 adds technologies like automated unloading of the preform system and different circuitry inside the plas- ticising unit to the features of the previous range. Also new is the particular configuration of the cooling station of the preforms, where the kinetic energy of the gripper plate is recovered in the deceleration stage and recon- verted into electrical energy. Furthermore Sacmi presents the CPB Link, a new automation dynamic buffer that enables the integration of cap and preform production in the bottling line. New developments of the Colora Cap system for high definition digital caps and closures will also be in focus. This system is now usable even on coloured caps, and fast graphic files loading and instant quick image change make it suitable for various capsule decorations. The company also studied Compression Blow Form- ing technology with an emphasis on green packaging, specifically the reduction of weights for dairy industry containers of up to 500 ml at equal performance. Finally, inspection solutions developed for the different busi- nesses, machines and plant solutions of the Group will be presented as well. The presentation - followed by a gala dinner - will end with a visit to the R&S Beverage laboratory, where the solutions later industrialised and offered to the custom- ers are developed and tested by Sacmi. The laboratory is a structure certified by the top global players in the beverage industry that can accompany products from the design stage onwards. It combines a guarantee on the final result with highly customised solutions in line with the most modern and diversified needs of the customer and the market. www.sacmi.com Polymetrix wins more PET projects with SSP technology Polymetrix AG, the former Bühler Thermal Processes AG, continues winning PET bottle grade projects with advanced SSP technologies. Two major Chinese PET resin manufacturers in Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province each ordered 600,000 tonnes per year of additional bottle grade PET SSP capacity using Polymetrix solid state polycondensa- tion and pellet conveying technology. Recent Polymetrix SSP technology advancements are implemented for even more competitive production of PET resin. The plants will start production in the second quarter of 2016. www.polymetrix.com