PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2020

36 TRADE SHOW REVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 21 No. 03/20 www.petpla.net Labelling trends and autosplicer There are several trends that the Italian shrink sleeve specialists Finpac identifies for the labelling market. “For PET bottles, there is a growing demand for perforated films - vertically and/or horizontally. Removing them makes it easier to recycle the bottles after they have been used,” reports Enrico Dano- varo, Commercial Director Finpac. Paolo Gobrili, the company’s sales manager, is also seeing increased demand for reducing label thickness. Finpac has already completed a suc- cessful series of tests with label thick- nesses of 20microns. At the Brau Beviale; Finpac featured their latest technological innovation with an autosplicer for sleeve reels. It consists of reel-holders with an auto- matic joining system for high-speed sleeving lines, up to 72,000 bph which can guarantee continuous production up to 40 minutes without any interven- tion by machine operators (based on a 500ml PET bottle configuration with a full body sleeve label having a cut length of 172mm fed by n. 2 autosplicers). The drawer reel holder combined with a jointing system between the dif- ferent reels, – up to 4 reels of 1,000m – is specifically designed to guarantee flexibility, speed, reliability and high productivity combined with an intuitive and easy-to-use logic. The automatic splicer offers a system with four drawers for prepar- ing the joint that allows the operator to work quickly and safely during the application phase of the adhesive. The prepared joint is automatically moved to the correct position eliminating any human error and eliminating the need for an operator on the line. Consisting of a sturdy, all-steel structure, and moveable drawers holding up to four reels which ensure a continuous label flow the system is stated to guarantee a simple, fast and safe preparation of the sleeve reels by the operator. Each of the reel-holding drawers is composed of a contrast roller, a support bar for preparing the joint and a reel locking bar that serves to keep the reels in position while the operator applies the adhesive without loss of line-speed. Once the adhesive has been placed, the operator needs only to confirm the preparation by pressing a button. The system automatically moves the pre- pared junction to the correct position thus eliminating any “human error”. The fixed joint position ensures accu- rate and effective control of the system and the moveable splicing heads are on board a motorised trolley where the two cutting blades are present, as well as the moveable contrast rollers and the buffer brakes. The carriage automatically aligns the relative jointing head at one of the preparation areas to then proceed to join the two ends of the coils. Once the cycle is activated, the simultaneous action produces an accurate join between the coils in a few seconds and the end result is a real overlap between the ends. www.finpac.it Mould technology for economical concepts in the field of blow moulding The independent mould maker Kiefer Werkzeugbau GmbH, based in Schwaigern, Germany, produces blow moulds for all common rotary blow moulding machines and for linear blow moulding machines. The company’ expertise includes Research and Development, innovative design in the field of light-weight & low-pressure base design, big-container design - up to 30 l, as well as for prototyping and test runs. At the trade show, Kiefer gave information about individual develop- ment of customised packaging, fast and flexible economic production of prototyping in 3-D-printing inhouse, as well as their anodised blow moulds range. The portfolio includes blow moulds for 100% recycled material. www.kiefer-mold.de F.l.t.r.: Paolo Gobrili, Sales Manager Finpac and Markus Seiler, Managing Director Aventa GmbH