PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2019

PREFORM PRODUCTION PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 03/19 www.petpla.net 10 Huayan comes to America Light weight luggage by Mike Urquhart Guangzhou Huayan Company – known as Huayan – was founded in Guangzhou, China in 2002. Since its inception, the company has been focused on the PET preform injection moulding business. Much of Huayan’s early developments were with customers in China. Today, they have systems running throughout Asia and in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Africa. Huayan sold their first preform mould and machine in 2002 and since then have made a number of new product developments:  2004 – 48 cavity mould  2005 – 72 cavity mould  2008 – 96 cavity mould  2012 – introduced the Ecosys line of machines from 225 t to 500 t  2014 – introduced the Epioneer line of systems for 128 and 144 cavities  2018 – 176 cavity mould My Molding Solutions (MMS) team In 2017, My Molding Solutions (MMS) was founded and became the exclusive representatives for Huayan in the Americas, head- quartered in Toronto. In 2018, they opened an office in Mexico and had a large booth in the Bottle Zone at NPE. Jackie Wei, president of MMS says “NPE was a major break- through for Huayan in the Americas. Most preform moulders in the Ameri- cas knew very little about Huayan. Once we informed them that we have over twenty 144 cavity sys- tems in operation today, we received many inquiries. We offer complete system solutions with good parts and service support at a very com- petitive price.” New 4g preform development Huayan has also developed a number of new bottle and pre- form designs, many of them for light weighting. One such development is a 4 g 250 ml bottle with a 0.4 g closure. This design is claimed to provide:  3 stage sealing  Easy capping  Buckled lock structure  Pilfer proof bridge  Pilfer proof band The bottle and closure pass a stack test with 6 layers of 24 bottle cases. The cap is also designed to prevent tilting. The bottle has a non-threaded pre- form neck design that provides pres- sured seal closure for small water bot- tles, providing moulders light weighting with top sealing performance. As well as the standard finish, alternative designs are available including plastic foil sealing, 29/25 or 26/22 thread and a press on cap with- out a tamper-evident/anti-pilfer feature on the side. The main market for this has been water, but there are also enquiries for dairy and condiments. www.mymoldingsolutions.com www.gzhuayan.com/en product development caps & closures design high cavitation moulds multi-component moulds closure production systems after sales service competent – professional – inspiring Dr.-Walter-Zumtobel-Strasse 9 | 6850 Dornbirn | Austria | www.z-moulds.com SAVE THE DATE Plastico Brasil March 25th- 29th, Sao Paulo Plastimagen April 2nd- 5th, Mexico City 2019-02-13_Inserat_z-moulds - Plastico Brasil_Plastimagen.pdf 1 13.02.2019 10:23:26 pro duct development cap s & closures design hig h cavitation moulds mu lti-component moulds clo sure production systems afte r sales service com petent – professional – inspiring Dr.-Wa lter-Zumtobel-Strasse 9 | 6850 Dornbirn | Austria | www.z-moulds.com SAVE THE DATE Plastico Brasil March 25th- 29th, Sao Paulo Plastimagen April 2nd- 5th, M xico City 2019-02-13_Inserat_z-moulds - Plastico Brasil_Plastimagen.pdf 1 13.02.2019 10:23:26