PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2016

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 68 PET planet Insider Vol. 17 No. 10/16 www.petpla.net K 2016 – 2 nd part of the PET selection K 2016 is opening its doors in Düsseldorf, Germany at 10 a.m. on October 19 th . Tickets can be purchased online, printed at home or downloaded as codes, saving both, time and money. Possession of a ticket includes free of charge travel to the trade fair by bus and rail in Düsseldorf. In our second trade show preview, we have gathered a new selection of exhibits which are sure to be of interest to the PET beverage industry. www.k-online.com Erema Hall 9 Booth C05 & C28 Careformance: Erema launches recycling 4.0 At the K 2016 show, Erema will be building on the suc- cess of the Intarema technology presented in 2013, this time with its trade fair theme of “Careformance – We care about your performance” to grow its pioneering role with Industry 4.0 applications. Careformance consists of four components, with the Intarema system forming the basis for further smart factory applications. In addition to previous machine data, specially integrated sensors – the QualityOn package – can be used in the future to record and evaluate Melt Volume Rate (MVR), colour and moisture. The QualityOn package enables recy- clers and producers to make their recyclates with consistent quality in accordance with the special requirements of their customers and document them transparently using online data acquisition and analysis. Recipes recorded electronically can be compared with each other and modified. In order to make use of the vast amount of machine, quality and process data in a worthwhile and user-friendly way, Erema has developed a sophisticated Manufacturing Execution System (MES). With re360 one can keep track of the productivity of an entire range of machinery in five modules. The extent to which re360 was developed with customer requirements in mind becomes clear with the link to Spare Parts Online, Erema’s online webshop. Any upcom- ing maintenance work and the replacement of individual parts are displayed in good time by re360. Spare parts can be ordered directly via the online webshop to keep downtime as low as possible: interconnection in the sense of maximum productivity. The customers’ respective Erema systems and previous orders are stored at Spare Parts Online. www.erema.at Laser-marking of monolayer dairy PET packaging Holland Colours has intro- duced a new generation of their light barrier technology for UHT milk packaging, Holcomer III. It is said to include enhanced light-barrier and laser-marking benefits such as 100% UV blocking and up to 99.9% visible-light blocking in a mono- layer PET bottle, but with lower production and laser-marking costs. Laser-marked letters and numbers are clearer and easier to read than printed ones, and unlike those cannot smudge or be accidentally wiped off. Holcomer III is claimed to over- come the traditional challenge posed by laser-marking mon- olayer PET milk bottles. The core of the issue is that organic polymers like PET show only limited sensitivity to IR lasers used in laser marking, so laser additives have to be added for the technique to work. However, these additives can cause a slight influ- ence on the colour (greyish), which is exactly what you do not want in pure, dairy applications. But using Holcomer III, producers can maintain the snow-white dairy appear- ance of the bottle without compromising the legibility of the laser marking. www.hollandcolours.com Holland Colours Hall 7.1 Booth E45