EDITOUR PETplanet Insider Vol. 26 No. 09/25 www.petpla.net 12 Sustainability in a compact mesh design with energy-saving servomotors 1 BLOW presents preform slides on magnetic tracks: This means that a completely new type of machine is being created in France. It will be interesting to see what advantages this new drive variant will bring for stretch blow moulding. Editour Interview with 1BLOW // April 4, 2025 We met: Benoît Sanchez, CEO, and Olivier Perche, Sales Director 1 BLOW emerged from the SBM builder ADS in 2010. Today, 1 BLOW still supplies spare parts and service for the old ADS systems. Currently, the company has a capacity of 50 systems per year and 40 employees with a turnover of 11 million euros. Up to 90% of the systems are exported. There are now 245 machines in operation worldwide. For Mr Olivier Perche, Sales Director, customer satisfaction comes first. It all started with the 2LO, a system with two cavities. The systems can be equipped for oval bottles and/or neck orientation or hot fill. The volume of the containers can be between 50ml and 30L. The “LAB” single-cavity system has become a reference machine for mould makers such as RödersTec and processors such as Resilux or Plastipak thanks to its wide range of setting options. In autumn, 1 BLOW plans to introduce a new machine concept in which the slides for the preforms rush along a magnetic track instead of being guided through the system by a chain. This allows the guide rail to run through the entire system and the preform slide to be moved at different speeds depending on requirements. For example, slowly in the oven, quickly on the free path to the blowing station and standing in the blowing station (picture above) until the blowing process is complete. The classic concept at 1 BLOW is based on chain conveyors and linear systems. This “Virtual Rotary Concept“ combines the advantages of rotating machines with those of linear machines without the entire blow moulding block physically rotating, as is the case with classic rotary machines. It is therefore a virtual rotation. Instead of a large turntable, 1 BLOW uses several stations that are permanently installed. Servo-electrically driven axes that perform movements (e.g. transporting, stretching, blowing) precisely and synchronously and over 90% rotating movements, e.g. during preform transport or blowing. As a result, the modular structure is very clear, format changes can be implemented quickly and maintenance is greatly simplified. Stretch blow moulds from all suppliers can be used in the machine. The modular design allows functions to be integrated that would otherwise be difficult to incorporate. For example, the preferential & offset neck heating. This technology kit produces opposing longitudinal heating bands to the preform to optimise production of oval or oblong bottles. This technology goes one step further by also allowing for these heated bands to be moved off-axis from the preform centreline; so that offset neck bottles can be produced. In addition to blowing hot fill bottles, neck orientation can also be realised. This technology kit puts all the neck finishes on each and every bottle to be in the same orientation. This is invaluable for containers that use a flip-top cap so that it aligns in the proper position for opening and pouring. The Sure Grip is certainly a special feature. This technology kit allows for the production of bottles with a hyperextended grip into the bottle that could not be produced in standard stretchblow moulding processes. It utilises software and hardware on the machine combined with a multi-staged mould insert system that allows for both opposing handle grip contours to be moved inward during the stretch-blow moulding process. www.1blow.com With a completely new design, the new development from 1 Blow presents the carriage solenoid drive technology. F.l.t.r.: Olivier Perche, Sales Director and Benoît Sanchez, CEO, in front of a LAB plant by Alexander Büchler Sponsors to date The 1 BLOW system adapted for wide mouth applications
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