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All-Electric Stretch-Blower for up to 3L PET Bottles
PET Technologies debuts compact APF-Max 2L liner reheat machine with quick changeovers, NIR heating and blowing-air recovery.
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Lighter, Higher Performance Base Design for Premium rPET Bottles
Sidel’s StarLITE-R Premium base for thicker rPET bottles ensures bottle stability in high-speed production, while saving energy.
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Brewer Chooses Quick-Change Flexibility to Blow Wide Range of PET Beer Bottles
Beermaster Brewery found a “universal” stretch-blow machine from PET Technologies enables multiple changes per day among four sizes of beer bottles.
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End-to-End Quality Management For Aseptic PET Beverage Bottling
Sidel introduces Qual-IS comprehensive quality system to merge all QC activities in PET aseptic beverage bottling, from the preform blowing to laboratory management.
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For Extrusion and Injection-Blow Molders, Numerous Upgrades in Machines and Services
Uniloy is revising its machinery lines across the board and strengthening after-sales services in tooling maintenance, spare parts and tech service.
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New Bottle Base for Nitrogen-Dosed Products in 100% rPET
Sidel’s new StarLITE-R Nitro offers an alternative to petaloid bases with equal performance in a wide range of 100% rPET bottle sizes.
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Latest Stretch Blow Molding News And Updates
Coca-Cola’s Redesign of Small PET Bottles Pushes Lightweighting Below Prior ‘Floor’
Coca-Cola thought it had reached the limits of lightweighting for its small PET carbonated soft drink bottles. But a “complete redesign” led to a further 12% reduction.
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Stretching the Boundaries of Large PET Containers
NPE2024: Cypet shows off new capabilities for its ISBM machines.
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All-Electric Shuttle and Stretch-Blow Machines
NPE2024: Meccanoplastica shows off a double-sided shuttle for containers up to 5 L and a reheat stretch-blow molder for up to 2.5 L PET containers with four cavities — both all-electric.
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Krones Acquires Netstal
Krones adds PET preform injection molding to its bottle blowing and filling capabilities, as well as cap molding and expansion into medical, food and other markets.
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Adding Remote Service Functions for PET Bottle Blowing
KHS has added features to its internet machine communications portal for PET stretch-blow molding.
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Sidel Launches Ultra-Small, Ultra-Light PET Bottle for Liquid Dairy Drinks
Sidel’s drinkable yogurt bottles from 65 to 150 ml save material and energy in production, and they’re qualified for 100% rPET.
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Breaking News From NPE2024
Here is a firsthand report of news in injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and recycling not previously covered.
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At NPE, Cypet to Show Latest Achievements in Large PET Containers
Maker of one-stage ISBM machines will show off new sizes and styles of handled and stackable PET containers, including novel interlocking products.
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How Was K 2022 for Blow Molding?
Over a dozen companies emphasized sustainability with use of foam and recycle, lightweighting and energy savings, along with new capabilities in controls, automation and quick changeovers.
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50 Years...600 Issues...and Still Counting
Matt Naitove marks his first half-century in plastics reporting, with a few of his favorite headlines.
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Solve Four Common Problems in PET Stretch-Blow Molding
Here’s a quick guide to fixing four nettlesome problems in processing PET bottles.
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50 Years of Headlines … Almost
I was lucky to get an early look at many of the past half-century’s exciting developments in plastics. Here’s a selection.
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