PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2018

EDITOUR PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 05/18 www.petpla.net 29 EDITOUR 29 Expanding PET business March 2018 We met: Kresten Hestehave, Vice President, Bomatic No, it is not the Vikings who have been running the Bomatic company in the picturesque city of Temecula, CA, over three generations since 1969. It is the Hestehave family from Denmark whose great enthusiasm and innovation have been instrumental in making US$20m in stretch-blowing moulding of containers, 70% of which is purely PET business. The company was origi- nally set up as a mould maker. Blow moulding started in 1971 with manufacturing pill dis- pensers, made from polyolen. Nowadays, their PET process- ing is a two-stage process. The rm has been producing preforms, mostly in-house, since 2007. The mainstay was a Husky system which has now been supplemented by another 72 cavity line. A Cin- cinnati Milacron from the early days, built in 1981, is also still chugging along in the production of special preforms. The company started with linear systems, both 2 and 4 cavity to get their start in stretch blow-mould- ing. This is where Kresten Hetehave, Vice President comes in, having enhanced his machine capability with a new Tech Long CPX D06 stretch-moulding unit. This will make his business more efcient and produce at higher rates. And as things have all gone so well, Kresten will be getting another Tech Long machine within the next few months. The mould business has come on a lot since its early days. The company produces its stretch-blow and extrusion moulds in-house - allowing their cus- tomers to get to market faster. About 120 cavities come out of production each year. Kresten Hestehave sees himself as a one-stop provider. He helps to develop bottle designs, pro- totypes and pre-series for his customers as well, of course, as enhancing production. The drinks’ industry is currently his chief customer, although he would like to extend his client base to the cleaning and auto-care sectors. www.bomatic.com Tour Sponsors: Save RAW MATERIALS reduced plastic volumes Save ENERGY less energy consumption Save TROUBLE more quality and higher performance, guaranteed by a sole supplier Full INSPECTED online quality control / stand alone With Sacmi, the beverage specialists are always at your side. With our unbeatable technological know-how and continuous research we are creating new containers and closures designed to ensure outstanding performance. The new IPS injection system for preforms and the CCM compression press for caps, fully designed and built by Sacmi, allows for large-scale production with considerable advantages in terms of efficiency and flexibility. The outcome? Reduced plastic volumes, less energy consumption and lower running costs. All in a bottle: the one you’ll soon be making. Preform & Closure technologically together Kresten Hestehave, Vice President Bomatic, in conversation with PETplanet