PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2019

40 TRADE SHOW REVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 03/19 www.petpla.net Top performances and low weights PET Engineering has been participated for the first time at the All4Pack show in Paris. The com- pany presented the new version of Nova bottle, a light-weight solution for carbonated soft drinks. The PET bottle weights just 12.5 g for a half liter format with 4.2 gas volume pressure. The second highlight was the “Glow in the Dark”, a Multi-Layer bottle with a phosphorescent additive that glows in the dark or under a UV light. This lightweight bottle was developed in collaboration with Penn Color Inc. www.petengineering.com Looking for a challenge A lot of new products have been presented at the SGT booth at Paris. As a specialist in PET packaging industry for over 30 years, the Société Générale des Techniques has been offering high performance solutions for packaging liquids. SGT has invested in new HDPE injection moulding machines for caps in a new site in Setif, Algeria. This latest- generation equipment will enable the SGT Group to increase its production capacity from 800 million to 2 billion caps per year, with new references for the necks: 29/25, 30/25 high ring, 33mm, 38mm, 38mm hot fill, 28mm, 48mm and 28 PCO 1881 and 1810. SGT proposes a complete and varied range of 260 PET preforms, 6 types of HDPE caps and 2 lightweight handles for 38mm and 40/48 necks. www.sgt-pet.com Smart packaging machines We met Pietro Vo l p i , Ma r ke t i ng Department Manager (photo on the right) at the All4pack in Paris. SMI p r esen t ed a model of the new LSK 30 SF Ergon. The machine is equipped with rounded safety doors made of ano- dised aluminium, which let all the motors, featuring low-energy consumption, be placed externally compared to the mechani- cal groups they activate. The door closing system is equipped with a slow-down device and accompanies the door smoothly in its final phase of closure. The LSK SF Ergon series arises from the need to provide an ad hoc machine for packing rigid containers in film only and consequently have available an extremely compact machine, easy to control and monitor. The process of packing in film is extremely fluid: on the machine infeed conveyor, equipped with low-friction chains made of thermoplastic material, loose containers are clustered in the desired format by a pneumatic device and electroni- cally synchronised separating bars before accessing the film wrapping section and the shrink tunnel. www.smigroup.it Congratulations! PETplanet congratulates Comep Blow Molds & More to their 20 years company anniversary! Mr Vincent Barrett, Technico-commercial France, told us about some fundamen- tal achievements of Comep for the blow moulding industry. Comep was one of the first in the low blowing pressure tech- nologies and has developed the Low Pressure Base and the Super Vented Mold concepts. These patented technologies are a real revolution for all the bottlers, says Comped. The patents allow to reduce the blowing pressure from 30% to 50% and to generate significant energy savings. Thus, a 1.5 l water bottle is blown on high speed machine with 13.5 bars. 2 l flat & sparkling water bottles are blown on high speed machines with 21 bars in Europe on more than 8 bottling plants. The venting optimisation system between the bottle and the mould cavity allows a faster exhaust of the air with a lower blowing pressure. www.sa-comep.fr TRADE SHOW review PART 2