PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2017

PREFORM PRODUCTION 37 PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 05/17 customer gets a high-quality feel from the product. Over 20 Netstal facili- ties with Otto Hofstetter moulds ensure everything keeps running smoothly. “We have to keep on making products – downtime costs money and we wouldn’t be able to maintain our current prices if we had to constantly service our facilities and equipment,” explains Yanto. In the preform division, the flow of materials is organ- ised efficiently, as expected. From supplying raw materi- als through to the production process, all the way to storing products in the warehouse and the shipment process. On the other side of the factory, there is another division that also delivers products to the dispatch centre, where seals come from many, many Sacmi compression facilities. And needless to say, this is also well organised. The caps are in acclimatised clean rooms and packed in plastic bags in the most hygienic way. These are then sent onto a sepa- rate warehouse specifically for the seals. Only then will both divisions join up and the products can be loaded onto the lorries and dispatched – depending on customer requirements, preforms or seals can be dispatched separately or together. His newest business has been running for four years and produces water beakers. Do I need to say it? Yes, this production process is also very well organised. Granular material arrives at sheet extruders from SML and is then mixed with grinded, recycled lead frame. The sheet then runs on the production line into the Kiefel thermoform unit which deep draws and stamps out 54 beak- ers per 3.1g. As a result, Yanto now produces all the bottles that the Indonesian water industry needs. He supplies multina- tional companies, such as Danone and Coca-Cola, national brand names, such as Club, Sosro and Viro, as well as over 700 more bottling companies, some which are very small regional busi- nesses. He wants to use the experience he has gained to advise bottling compa- nies should they encounter difficulties. Whether they have packaging or techni- cal problems, or questions regarding water sources, Namasindo Plas can help in what I suspect will be a very organised manner. www.namasindoplas.com A look inside one of the clean rooms where caps are produced