PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2016

PET products 68 PET planet insider Vol. 17 No. 09/16 www.petpla.net www.stf-group.de ENGINEERING WITH THE COMPETENCE OF THE RECYCLER • Complete Plastic Sorting and Washing Lines engineered by Europe’s largest PET Recycler • Bottle-to-Bottle rPET Recycling • More than 60 PET Recycling Lines installed worldwide www.stf-group.de ENGINEERING WITH THE COMPETENCE OF THE RECYCLER • Complete Plastic Sorting and Washing Line engineered by Europe’s largest PET R cycler • Bottle-to-Bottle rPET ecycling More than 60 PET Recy ling Lines installed worldwide Booth 12 / F56 Kinder Cola shrink sleeve labels produced by Constantia Kinder Cola, the Dutch bever- age line aimed at children, has tapped Constantia Flexibles to produce their new shrink sleeve labels. Made without caffeine and with significantly less sugar than traditional cola, Kinder Cola is the premier youth cola beverage in the region. Until recently, these products used a wrap-around label. Kinder Cola’s goal was to maximize their branding with a higher quality label. Constantia Flexibles’ shrink sleeve label was a good solution. It amplified their brand- ing by providing a 360-degree messaging platform, more than doubling the amount of space available. Additionally, Constantia Flexibles’ technology includes multiple image printing, allowing for three designs per reel. Their bright and varied kid-friendly graphics pop off the bottle and visibility on- shelf has significantly increased. The Kinder Cola team is very happy with the new label and is now using it on all of their kid-focused beverage products. www.cflex.com Water bottles for URC Philippines Universal Robina Corporation (URC) is a Philippine multinational with an established market especially in South East Asia in the food & beverage industry. URC Philippines requested a solution to produce new water bottles for mass consumption, having specific needs. The line speed should have a capacity of 50,000bph with a labelling machine speed of 55,000bph. The bottle shapes of 350ml and 500ml should be processed in ExtraLight on a blow moulding machine. The solution that P.E. Labellers proposed and installed is a Rollmatic with brushless motorised plate belt, reel-holders; servo-driven, dedicated brushless HS glue roller and auto- matic joiner. In addition, a special in feed solu- tion with drive-break curve, long feed-screw and additional starwheel has been designed and implemented for the correct infeed of soft bottles into the machine. The low consistency of the bottles was a great preoccupation for the success of the project. However, with the right solutions described above, corrected and adapted during the FAT and the machine has been operating for over a year in three shifts with great customer satisfaction. www.pelabellers.com