PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2018

51 ON SITE PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 06/18 www.petpla.net From bottle bales to egg packs with Amut technology Global Plastics is a well-known Californian manufacturer of PET packaging made entirely from post-consumer bottles. The company recycles approximately four million bottles a day, which are sorted by colour, ground and washed. The company then pelletises the flakes and extrudes the sheet for final use in thermoforming. The entire process is performed by Amut Group machines and complies with FDA certification regulations for packaging suitable for direct food contact applications. Hickman’s Family Farms is a significant producer of eggs and has launched into the market an egg container made entirely from post-consumer PET soda and water bottles. The partner for this project is Global Plastics. This eco-friendly container takes about five bottles to make an 18-count egg pack and about three bottles to make one of 12-count egg. A 24-egg carton will be coming to shelves very soon. Hickman’s Family Farms is also starting its own in- house thermoforming business with ACF920 model branded Amut-Comi. The newly developed software named Easy is intended to simplify machine running, and is particularly suitable for companies entering the market. ACF is the Amut-Comi series that was launched at K 2016: in two years several machines have already been installed worldwide. The ACF model has now also pen- etrated the North American market. www.amut.it ON site stf·sorting line stf·washing line professional plastic recycling solutions – made in germany The stf· group is the leading manufacturer of plastic sorting and washing machinery, especially for PET post-consumer bottles, with more than 60 turn-key plants and several single machines delivered worldwide. stf·group Industriestr. 1-3 94529 Aicha v. Wald – Germany fon +49 8544 960-110 mail [email protected] web www.stf-group.de scan for vCard stf ·group