Midsize Electric Shuttle Blow Molder Balances Flexibility, Compactness

Magic North America is a branch of an Italian firm that builds only all-electric blow molders, including continuous-extrusion shuttles, injection-blow and stretch-blow units, and a new line of accumulator head presses. The star of its NPE2024 exhibit is the new Model ME T14-600-D, a double-sided shuttle designed for compactness plus flexibility to run up to 10+10 cavities with 50-mm center distance or 1+1 cavities for 2.5-gallon F-type containers.

This midsize machine has 15.4-ton clamp, 600-mm carriage stroke, and 2×230-mm head. Designed specifically for the U.S. market, the new model boasts several new features:

• Automatic deflashing inside the machine with scrap conveyor
• Bottle conveyor belt on rear side of the machine
• Internal pick-and-place system to place bottles on conveyor (40% smaller footprint than previous generation)
• Motorized height adjustment of extruder/head assembly
• Quick-connect plugs for extruder head zones
• 15-in. display screen on telescoping arm
• Remote connectivity for service support
• System to read and display water flow and temperature.
• Ability to accommodate heads with maximum c/d values of 2 × 270 mm, 3 × 180 mm, 4 × 130 mm, 5 × 105 mm or 6 × 85 mm.
• T-slots for mounting blow pin holders, and on the mask holder and slotting up/down control.
• Hopper level indicator and indicator for an additional sensor.
• Melt-temperature monitor with onscreen display.

Another new capability of this machine is full integration with an added inline downstream system (such as palletizer, bagger, weigh scale, machine vision and more ) from the company’s new Magic Robotics division.