PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2018

PET products 74 PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 04/18 www.petpla.net PET for pets Moderna Products nv are known for creating smart plastics for happy pets. Their designs and accessories are used by pets everywhere, from bowls and cat toilets to carriers and gravity feeders and waterers. Their newest design is a gravity fed waterer with a dif- ference: together with the team from PET Technologies, Moderna have worked hard to create a feeder that utilises a blow-moulded jar. Through the specially modified, semi- automatic blow moulder UPF-30 they can now create jars with a neck diameter of 120mm and a volume of 0.5 or 1 gallon. By combining this new technology with their exist- ing injection moulded bases, they have created the perfect gravity-fed watering system. What’s more the PET jars are fully recyclable. So one jar creates another, helping the planet for future pets and owners alike. The UPF-30 was installed at the company’s American plant in Gaffney, South Carolina to run along-side their exist- ing machines there. PET Technologies technicians were on hand to commission the new machine and to give first-hand tuition to the new operators. The new machine is now fully operational. A second installation at their headquarters in Belgium is already pencilled-in for the future. www.pet-eu.com Wide-neck containers: KHS presents individual PET systems for the food sector There is a definite trend towards PET and ever larger bottle neck openings: in the food sector, where to date glass filling was standard, manufacturers are increasingly favouring lightweight plastic. Not only are individual bottle and pack- aging designs in demand but also wide-neck containers for sauces, dressings and dairy products. In order to give bot- tlers in this field a great possible flexibility, KHS has further developed its InnoPET Blomax stretch blow moulder. The systems supplier is also extending its Bottles and Shapes program for distinctive bottle design. PET and wide-neck containers are becoming more impor- tant to the food industry in particular, with this type of packaging steadily growing in popularity for products such as sauces, dressings or dairy products. To quote Haesendonckx, “PET has a number of advantages over glass, such as its unbreak- ability and low weight.” Another plus point is that sensitive products can also be filled into transparent plastic packaging thanks to KHS’ FreshSafe PET coating method. Already tried and tested many times over in the beverage industry, this process finishes the inside of the PET bottle with a wafer-thin layer of pure silicon oxide. “This barrier gives products a shelf life which is comparable to that of glass. This latest improve- ment enables preforms measuring up to 70mm in diameter to be processed,” says Frank Haesendonckx, head of Sales and Technology at KHS Corpoplast in Hamburg, Germany. The machine is available as a modular design with an output of up to 2,500 PET bottles per hour and station. the stretch blow moulder can be blocked with other KHS systems – not just with the InnoPET Plasmax for container coating but also with the Innosept Asbofill for the hygienic filling of sensitive products, for instance. The new KHS chunk dosing unit for flexible product design, which adds fruit, vegetables or cere- als, can also be integrated into the system. www.khs.com