EDITOUR 13 PETplanet Insider Vol. 25 In one of the aforementioned glass-walled offices, we sat opposite Mohammad Abdel Moneim, who has been involved in the packaging industry for 14 years and whose professional background is actually in finance. “We have an installed capacity of eight billion preforms and closures per year, and we are certainly at 95% capacity utilisation,” he explained during our conversation. “This year we will process an estimated 65,000 t of material, of which around 55% is PET.” Suppliers include Sabic, Alpek, Reliance and Chinese suppliers. On the PET side, processing is carried out on eleven Sipa Xforms with 180 and 200 cavities and four Netstal PET lines with 128 cavities from Otto Hofstetter each. “With Netstal, for example, we like the broad compatibility with third-party suppliers for moulds,” says Mr Moneim. “We also use Netstal for closures, alongside Husky and Sacmi.” Two Elion systems from the Swiss machine manufacturer with 96-cavity Corvaglia moulds and four Husky HyCAP systems, each with in-house 96-cavity moulds, are available for injection moulding applications, as well as a further ten Sacmi rotary machines. Alsad’s portfolio includes preforms in 5.6 g, 6 g, 6.8 g, 7.2 g, 7.9 g, 8.5g (the most popular format), 9.1 g, 9.8 g, 10.4 g, 10.6 g, 11.3 g, 12.5 g, 65 g and 190 g. There are three formats for closures, 30/25, 29/25 and 38mm. 80% of the products remain within the group of water brands, the rest is exported to Gulf countries. “One of our current main topics is comprehensive, computercontrolled automation,” Mr Moneim told us. “Of course we are talking about large investments. But we also want to stand for quality and reliability by using quality equipment from the world’s leading machine and equipPreforms for water from the Sipa Xform ment suppliers and, together with our own dedication, continue our success story.” During the factory tour, we met technicians from IMD Vista who were setting up one of their inspection lines on a brand new Husky HyCAP. Pointing to the new setup, Mr Monem said: “With the new Husky system we will save 0.1 g of material per cap.” www.alsadcap.com
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