Author: Heike Fischer

IMD Vista’s booth highlighted their strategic collaboration with Origin Materials in the development of the world’s premier PET cap and closure manufacturing system. The Swiss company provides subsystems tailored for conveying, orienting, and inspecting the caps. Martin Gerber, Chief Sales Officer (CSO) at IMD, emphasised the developmental ingenuity invested in these

Sikora has exhibited the Purity Scanner Advanced that is used for inspection and sorting of plastic pellets. Even the smallest, critical contamination is  reliably detected and sorted out by the system, says the company. Thanks to the modular concept, different camera types can be used depending on the inspected material. In

Openair-Plasma treatment enhances the surface energy of predominantly non-polar plastics, thereby modifying their surface properties. This activation process prepares materials for subsequent industrial treatments by increasing surface wettability, which in turn improves adhesive and coating strength as well as material printability. For cases where activation alone is insufficient, Plasma Plus technology offers

UK-based quality control equipment manufacturer Torus Measurement Systems, which specialises in measuring all aspects of plastic bottles, presented its ‘TQ Lab’. The fully automated device combines the three modular units B302, B309 and B304 to provide reliable measurements for neck and body dimensions, thickness distribution, load, volume and weight. According to

Integrated Plastics (IMH) from Sydney, Australia, and PETform Technologies from Daman, India, shared a booth highlighting IMH’s integrally moulded handle bottles and PETform’s advanced preform injection moulds. Nick Mellen, Managing Director of Integrated Plastics, marked the company’s first participation at NPE with a focus on entering the US market, noting significant

Canada-headquartered PET All Manufacturing covers North and South America for a number of technologies. It reported having a great show with visitors generally of a high calibre, ready to get down to business. The booth featured an all-electric, 2-cavity stretch blow machine from Chumpower for bottles up to 5 l. This machine

PETplanet: How would you assess your overall experience at NPE this year? Hugely satisfied. it was very busy from the beginning to the end, and we had the chance of meeting many new potential customers. Majority of the visitors were US-based but a significant number of customers from LATAM and Caribbean

PETplanet: How would you assess your overall experience at NPE this year? The show was spectacular, even more so than in 2018. Many visitors from the Americas, north, central and south. Lots of leads and great quality of the visitors. PETplanet: Could you please share the key exhibits or technologies showcased

At the NPE stand of US equipment manufacturer Maguire, we met IT manager Ralph Hassel, who introduced us to the company’s new IT monitoring system ‘Tracker’. With this software, the company is taking a further step in terms of production data analysis, evaluation and remote parameter adjustment. In combination with the