BOTTLE MAKING 31 PETplanet Insider Vol. 24 No. 05/23 www.petpla.net times. The capper was one particular area of focus, where the cone responsible for lifting and closing the bottles needs to be replaced manually. No conversion is required regarding the screw cap, however, as there are two cap feeds – one for each neck diameter in the respective format. Retrofittable option Andersen is convinced that the new neck change option will give beverage producers greater flexibility, as they can now also run shorter production cycles for bottles with different necks and therefore reduce their warehousing effort accordingly. “Some of our customers produce just in time; this means that the finished containers are loaded straight onto the truck without any interim storage. The drastically reduced conversion time will now enable filling operations like these to change necks more frequently; they thus profit from totally new options in their production planning.” The same goes for converters who can now produce the generally smaller batches for their customers – often in very different bottles – on a single line much more efficiently. The first customers in Asia who are already using the newly developed quick neck change are pleased with the amount of time and effort they save, says KHS. www.khs.com When converting the stretch blow moulder to a different neck, the shields are first exchanged. (Source: Jörg Schwalfenberg) The mandrel head is released by simply pressing on a spring, enabling it to be changed over quickly and easily. (Source: Jörg Schwalfenberg) 5IF SJHIU TPMVUJPO GPS FWFSZ JOTQFDUJPO UBTL JO ZPVS 13&'03. 130%6$5*0/
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