PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2018

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 05/18 www.petpla.net 56 Sacmi adds value to the U.S. market Technology and design Sacmi will be at the NPE fair to present flexible, efficient, lightweight cap and container manufacturing solutions and complete cap-preform design solutions aimed at intercepting new high-added-value markets. Sacmi’s display area will go to the compression blow forming (CBF) range. Using a new container-making process that employs compression technology, these machines produce final products directly from pellets. Since the CBF range can be used with all the main commercially available resins, it offers precision and versatility. West Hall, Level 2, 363 South Hall 10051 Sacmi says that the CBF range actually combines the best charac- teristics of alternative technologies such as EBM, IBM and ISBM. This is the result of excellent thermody- namic stability throughout the pro- cess, no gate on container bottoms, high productivity and precision- moulded necks. These factors, com- bined with using different resins and – in general – the ability to produce blown containers at lower cost (up to 20% less weight) have made a marked difference. Some thirty solu- tions have already been installed in China, Japan, the USA, India and other countries. The research on the closures front focuses on the repeatability and precision of continuous pro- cesses and on cutting weight and cost. This goes hand in hand with a capacity to respond to the burgeon- ing market demand for integrated solutions for high-added-value product lines. The Group’s latest cap manufacturing solution with the well- established continuous compression moulding (CCM) range, equipped with the COOL+ mould. The application on show at the fair – for the manufacture of a light- weight version of a popular CSD cap – is one Sacmi has designed for the strategic US market, which is con- stantly on the look-out for new solu- tions that combine lower weight, less environmental impact and innovative design. It is this capacity to design, together with the customer, the most suitable cap and preform solution – also with an eye to ‘green packag- ing’ – that makes Sacmi a partner, ensuring each new plant engineer- ing project has everything covered from every angle: from technological consultation vis-à-vis the finished product (thanks to the advanced research lab, accredited by several key players in the beverage world) to the supply of complete production lines that integrate every aspect of manufacturing. The intrinsic advantages of this technology, which works at lower temperatures with respect to injec- tion, is claimed to ensure excellent energy efficiency. Sacmi solutions allow finishing tasks (slitting, folding and non-destructive testing) to be performed on non-flat-top caps; this is thanks to a comprehensive range of slitting-folding machines that work in concert with cutting-edge inspec- tion systems that allow control of every aspect of cap finishing. The advanced Sacmi H.E.R.E. (Human Expertise for Reactive Engi- neering) supervision system, which can be integrated along the entire plastic cap production line (of which the CCM is a part), allows Industry 4.0-type manufacturing plant control. All solutions on show in Orlando – CBF and CCM – will be equipped with a dedicated inspection system for in-line, high speed total quality control. www.sacmi.com