PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2017

63 TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 09/17 www.petpla.net Hall A4 - Booth 330 Engineering Excellence www.netstal.com Maximum output No defects At Netstal our aim is to help you manufacture the perfect drinks closures: minimum cycle times combined with maximum quality yield the lowest unit costs and best possible pro- duction. And that’s no coincidence: our team of experts are specialised exclusively in closures – and machines made to perform. Drinktec, hall A4, booth 321 Preform range expansion Société Générale des Techniques (SGT), a French family firm, has consolidated its expertise in the manufacture of PET preforms with the recent acquisition of an injection press exclusively dedicated to multilayer applications. This new Husky HPP5 state-of-the-art machine is intended to not only give the company more flexibility but also more freedom in the design of new barrier solutions. In developing such applications, SGT will also be able to intensify its presence in packaging sectors for sensitive products like wines, syrups, milk and carbonated soft drinks. With this multilayer process, SGT aims to offer preforms fea- turing stronger barriers (oxygen, CO 2 , light, UV, etc.) while at the same time offering lighter packaging that was not conceivable until now. With a standard range of 220 preforms designed for a great variety of applications, SGT claims to meet the requirements of all bottlers by henceforth offering monolayer and multilayer solutions for cold, hot or aseptic filling processes that thereby guarantee the shelf life and quality of their products. www.sgt-pet.com Thread, body & thickness gauge Torus Measurement Systems will be exhibiting a fully automated B302 Thread, Body & Thickness gauge for plastic bottles and preforms which will incorporate the use of a robot to automatically load. Torus’ newly developed B302 can be supplied as a semi- automatic manually loaded or robot automated system and utilises the most recent camera and lighting technology with incorporated start of thread alignment routines, removing operator influence from the neck finish measurement. Torus’ automated B302 TBT offers improved measurement repeatability and absolute thickness capability by using the latest high resolution sensing technolo- gies, allowing features such as base clearance, thread, body & height dimensions to be taken without any operator influence. The intelligent robot loader removes the need for time-consuming, manual processes and consequently improves efficiency. As with all Torus gauges, the B302 is fully traceable to UKAS standards and is supplied with calibrated masters which are measured in Torus’ own accredited laboratory. www.torus-group.com Hall A4 - Booth 146