PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2018

MOULD MAKING PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 10/18 www.petpla.net 18 MOULD MAKING 18 Moulds for beverage- closures lines From cap to preform and stretch-blowing, Sacmi acts as a one stop shop for every stage of the beverage production process. Their services aim to make a difference - against a backdrop of progressively shorter average product life cycle and customers’ demands for minimal lead times for new caps and formats - by providing consultancy and customer support right from the design phase. Sacmi’s strategic decision to act as both supplier of moulds and machines as well as cap designer in the beverage-closures industry ensures they make the very most of technologies, such as compression. “In the clo- sures field”, states Davide Penazzi, Technical Manager of Moulds & IPS, “Sacmi leads the way in the manufac- ture of flat-top caps with compression technology.” On average, Sacmi produces and supplies 8-9,000 moulds a year for compression moulds for caps. There are two reasons behind this: the first dates back to the end of the 1980s when Sacmi decided to invest in compression as the technology of choice for switching from crown cap to plastic cap production. The second relates to more recent mould configuration developments. These range from the Cool+ boosted- cooling system, which comes as-standard on the con- tinious compression moulding (CCM) machine range, and increases production by 50% without compromis- ing performance, to the complex light weight develop- ments that are steadily evolving every design aspect of the cap-preform-bottle system. “In itself”, explains Penazzi, “compression technol- ogy is better suited to the manufacture of very thin caps. This is because it is a particularly stable technol- ogy that operates at lower temperatures than injection does. It also allows independent control of every single cavity-mould, thus ensuring perfect process repeatabil- ity whatever the production conditions”. As the Technical Manager of Sacmi Moulds & IPS reveals, “ More and more customers request in-depth cap design consultancy as well as machine consul- tancy. It’s here that the ‘mould factor’ comes into play. The operating parameters of the mould play a crucial role in finished product quality, which allows us to supply distinctive services to our two main customer groups: converters and bottlers”. MOULD special mmm$he[Z[hi$Z[ Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L OW MO U L D S . STEPS TO THE PERFECT BOTTLE. >YZV 9Zh^\c IZX]cdad\n BVcj[VXijg^c\ 8bem CekbZ &%% HZgk^XZ Meet us at Brau Beviale in Nuremberg - Hall 7A / 7A - 301