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Special bottle shapes make high demands of many stretch blow moulders during production. The preferential heating system (PH) developed by the KHS Group enables bottlers to achieve perfect bottle quality with oval bottles in an energy-saving, safe and reliable process. The systems provider offers this option for its InnoPET Blomax Series
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With the collaborative contributions of R&D/Leverage UK, ISBM total Solution provider, and PET Power, a plastic bottle producer in the Netherlands, Fred Housheer, entrepreneur from the Netherlands, realised the Hydranome water bottle. This bottle lets the user know how much water they drink daily with the use of an interactive dial
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PET Power has added new standard shapes to its growing range of "funny shapes" specifically for special occasions. The company presents the Rabbit 300ml and the Pumpkin 510ml PET jar. Both models have a 63 RTS neck finish. The unusual aspect of the Rabbit is that it is upside down and
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With the KHS InnoPET Tri-Block the KHS Group has now launched a filling and packaging system for PET bottles to market which incorporates a stretch blow moulder, labeller and filler. With consistent neck handling KHS also enables lightweight PET to be processed. This means that a 0.5 litre bottle weighing notably
Read moreNew Delhi based packaging company AMD Industries Ltd. has informed the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) that it has set up four new lines of machines at its factory in Neemrana (Rajasthan) having a capacity of manufacturing 25,000 PET bottles and around 22,000 jars per day. The Board of Directors approved to
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The requisite blow moulding pressure is one of the most important cost factors involved in producing PET bottles in a stretch blow moulding process. This issue is a highly complex one. In some cases, however, the limiting factor for reducing the blow moulding pressure is not the bottle design, nor the
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PET Technologies company has developed unique bottle design for the brewery Bierwelle, Chernihiv, Ukraine. PET Technologies R&D department designed a PET bottle taking into consideration PET blow moulding process and bottle application characteristics on the one hand and customer´s vision on the other. The feature worth to highlight is bottle decoration
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Amcor Rigid Plastics has announced a major new business platform to facilitate small-volume production for emerging beverage companies who seek to reach the market more cost effectively and established high-volume suppliers who want to explore niche markets. Amcor’s Up Start program works closely with growing start-ups like Alkaline Water Co., Scottsdale,
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Amsler Equipment Inc. has just completed and shipped its first next-generation single-cavity LM15X PET stretch blow moulding machine to R&D/Leverage in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. The requirement from R&D/Leverage for a machine to test and run moulds for various PET machines led to the development of the new series. The result is
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Husky Injection Molding Systems has been recognised with the Ringier 2015 Technology Innovation Award for the development of its Ultra Helix valve gate technology and its contribution to production efficiency and cost effectiveness. The award was presented to Husky representatives on October 28th, 2015 in Shanghai, China. According to the company
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The Krones subsidiary Kosme S.r.l., Roverbella, has now, in the shape of the 3 Bloc, presented a block configuration available in two different variants, for PET and for HDPE containers. The 3 Bloc for PET comprises three concatenated machines: blow-moulder, filler and labeller. The particular version of the Flexa labeller can
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