PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2019

INSPECTION 27 PET planet Insider Vol. 19 No. 07+08/19 www.petpla.net be thought away from the industry. As the technology is “very simple” this IP is internationally patent protected. With our unique preform factory concept 4.0 we offer the PET industry a complete inspection platform. Last but not least, one of the most exciting developments is clearly our closure digital printing machine, IMDvista CLDP. We see the way and the reason why our customers printed closures will come to change in the short future. However, stay up to date and in the lead of the industry, we have some new developments to come very soon.” (III) “The pressure to user recycled materials is going up tremendously and will even require more inline vision inspection systems. We are a fast, organic growing company and it is not always easy to keep up with the growing demand. We did move to bigger produc- tion facilities last summer and do also move the operations into an optimised office space to fulfil this needs. We feel ready for the future.” www.imdvista.ch our most important development. A very simple to use monitoring system, adding no floor space to existing preform production lines, enables all preform producers monitoring their preform production. Especially with the fast moving trend into the usage of recycling PET, this tool can no more Initravis GmbH, Gerd Fuhrmann, CEO (I) “I founded Intravis in 1993 and initially focused on the development of computer tomography systems. Since 1995, Intravis has focused on inspec- tion solutions for the plastic packag- ing industry. The trigger for this was a request from Alpla for a bottle inspec- tion system using our ideas and tech- nology. Over the years, this request has led to a specialisation in complete solutions for the plastic packaging industry. Today we offer turnkey sys- tems and equipment for quality control of preforms, closures, bottles and containers as well as decorations (e.g. IML label). An increasingly growing part of our business is analysis soft- ware. Today, ten of ten major global converters are using our systems.” (II) “We are fortunate that we have several strong markets where we each belong to the world market and innovation leaders. These are above all the preform, closure and bottle area. Also our solutions for IML inspection are unique on the market. A growth market is analysis soft- ware. In recent years, we’ve seen a lot of change in our industry: our systems are no longer just used to sort out poor quality. Today’s cus- tomers claim that the results of the quality inspections must help them to improve the production processes and thus prevent them from producing any bad parts at all. We have dedicated ourselves to this topic since the very beginning and with today’s computer technology it is possible to implement our ideas profitably for our customers. As far as developments are con- cerned, of course there have been many exciting projects in the last 25 years. It has always been our goal to be technologically in the very fore-