PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2020

37 TRADE SHOW REVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 21 No. 01+02/20 www.petpla.net New inline preform monitoring system Inravis presented it’s PreMon, a new system for inline preform monitoring in Düsseldorf. The supplier of vision inspection systems for the plastic packaging industry thereby supports the growing trend to use recycled material in the production of preforms. The PreMon is Intravis’ new inline monitoring system for producers of transparent, translucent and opaque preforms. Integrated into the transport process between the injection moulding machine and the packag- ing of the preforms, the system inspects up to 70% of the preform flow for typical defects. In concrete terms, this includes: Colour deviations, con- taminations, ovality of the muzzle, injections, defects on the surface of the muzzle and length of the injection point. The operator receives monitoring results for each octabin and can use the data to decide on further measures for the respective container, e.g. re-sorting. With the PreMon Plus, which also has an ejector, customers can eject faulty preforms directly. The user can hereby actively improve the quality of his octabin. Future trend recycling Dr Gerd Fuhrmann, Managing Director of Intravis GmbH, sees the PreMon as indispensable for all preform produc- tion lines in the future: “Today more and more preforms are produced with recycled material. The resulting problems in the production process, such as contamination or yellowing of preforms, cannot be predicted. Constant monitoring of the preform flow is therefore indispensable. If a manufacturer wants to get a good overview of the quality of his products, then a monitoring system like the PreMon is the perfect solution at a moderate price.” At the K show Intravis was able to announce several sales of the new system. www.intravis.de Swiss engineered innovations, performance and reliability PackSys Global and its subsidiaries Madag Decora- tion, Combitool Solutions and Texa Packing presented their new highlights at the K show. The capLab: PackSys Global manufactured a high speed machine for creating tamper evident bands by fold- ing and slitting plastic caps. Until now the most important quality control test, the pull-off test, checks the strength and consistency of the tamper evident band, has been done periodically offline in a remote laboratory. The capLab is the first fully automatic in-line pull-off tester for quality supervision of cap production. It selects caps at random or caps which meet specific requirements, for example caps from each cavity on an injection or compression mould or caps which were processed on a specific mandrel on the folding and slitting machine. Because the testing is done on an ongoing basis the time to get the results is measured in seconds. The capLab uses the test results to automatically change the settings on the folding and slitting machine that caps never go outside the approved limits. Because the testing is done automatically it helps to reduce labour costs. Madag Decoration manufactures hot foil stamping machines for different industries, especially for cosmetics packaging. The machines allow metal foil to be embedded in the packaging in an environmentally friendly process. Madag Decoration presented its DecoRoll-XC machine. The machine is well adapted to the needs of small orders. By using the hot foil stamping technique, the customer can choose between a high-gloss gold and silver appearance or even a brushed or textured look in the product’s pack- aging. This option is not possible with other techniques. NEOSeam is PackSys Global’s new side-seam tech- nology for 360° printed appearance showing no visible overlap to the consumer. This new technique was dem- onstrated on PackSys Global’s LTR2 side-seamer. The NEOSeam produces decorated cosmetic laminate tubes. NEOSeam was combined with PackSys Global’s focus on the use of large diameter tubes to replace extrusion blow moulded plastic bottles. Many brand owners use plastic bottles for larger volume packs however these come with an environmental cost. Plastic bottles commonly use between 12 and 40% more plastic than a tube which holds the same volume. PackSys demonstrated produc- tion of 60 mm diameter tubes using NEOSeam (suitable for pack size of 250 ml to 400 ml). www.packsysglobal.com