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FeAtures

in particular for sensitive beverages.” Further, KHS has Complete changeover from oval narrow-neck bottles to
formed a partnership with an “environmental service shallow wide-mouth jars is said to take 30 min. Further,
provider” to pursue its “strategy of reduction, recycling FlexBlow’s special pick-and-place system reportedly can
and reuse.” feed any wide-mouth preform, even shallow shapes, while
minimizing scratches on the preforms.
Agr International known for its monitoring and control
solutions for PET stretch-blow molding showed “its latest 1Blow of France had been running its most popular
and most powerful in-the-blowmolder vision system,” Pilot compact two-stage machine, the two-cavity 2LO, with
Vision+. In keeping with the Circular Economy theme, this three new options. One is a Preferential & Offset Heating
system is said to be well suited to quality management Technology Kit, which adds flexibility for producing
of PET bottles with high recycled (rPET) content. It can “extreme oval containers”—even in opaque colors, and
manage up to six cameras for defect detection inside the significantly offset-neck bottles once thought impossible
stretch-blow machine. Color preform cameras can detect to make by the reheat stretch-blow process. Second, a
color variations, while the large screen displays defects tiered-access system limits operator access to particular
categorized by mold/spindle and defect type.vhighlights control functions—as little as on/off and screen-viewing
sustainability in showing its latest Process Pilot control access—while granting technicians full access. Third, in-
system with advanced thinwall capability, introduced machine leak testing is now available through cooperation
earlier this year. It’s recommended particularly for with Delta Engineering. Delta’s UDK 45X leak tester uses
ultralight PET bottles, as it measures and adjusts material high voltage to rapidly detect and reject containers with
distribution on every bottle. micro-cracks, while saving floor space and capital cost.
More PET Machines Jomar, a leading maker of injection-blow machines,
Among other exhibits of PET machinery, Nissei ASB making an entry into non-stretched PET with its
demonstrated its new “Zero Cooling” technology that TechnoDrive 65 PET machine was displayed at K. Based on
promises an average of 50% higher productivity as well as
higher quality PET bottles. They key is using the second of
four stations in its rotary injection stretch-blow machines
for both cooling and preform conditioning. Thus, cooling of
one shot overlaps with injection of the next shot. Ability

the high-speed TechnoDrive 65 unit introduced last year,
this 65-ton model is aimed specifically at PET but can easily
to use thicker preforms with higher stretch ratios—without
sacrificing cycle time—reportedly leads to stronger bottles convert to run polyolefins and other resins with a change
with fewer cosmetic flaws . of screw and some minor adjustments.Features tailored
for PET include a more robust screw motor, high-pressure
Meanwhile, FlexBlow (a brand of Terekas in Lithuania) valves and built-in nozzle heaters. Some injection-blow
introduced a special “Beauty” series of its two-stage machines require a fourth station to process PET. It’s used
stretch-blow machines for the cosmetic containers to temperature-condition the core rods. But the new
market. It is designed to offer versatility for a variety of three-station Jomar machine accomplishes this task in
container shapes and neck sizes in short-run production. the ejection station, reportedly minimizing cycle times.

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