As Seen In Plastics Technology

Packaging: New System Produces Wide Variety of ‘Tethered’ Bottle Caps.
A wide variety of tethered caps, designed to meet EU regulations for 2024, can be produced on a new compact, high-speed line from SACMI.

Continuous Compression Molding Goes Multilayer
SACMI’s CCM system now can mold multilayer barrier containers such as coffee pods.

Blow Molding: Online PET Preform Inspection Uses AI to ‘Self-Learn’
SACMI’s new Preform Vision System can be used inline with PET preform injection molding.

Blow Molding: Something for Everyone at K Show
Packaging, industrial, continuous-extrusion, accumulator-head, injection-blow, stretch-blow, EPET, foam, sandwich co-injection—the blow molding news was wide ranging at K 2019.

PET Packaging Technologies Debut at K 2019
SACMI will show its latest for compression, injection and blow molding—maintly of PET.

Continuous Compression Molding Challenges Injection for Optical Parts
SACMI’s CCM systems, originally developed for bottle caps, now show promise for high production of lighting lenses and other optical parts.

NPE Wrap-Up: News in Primary Machinery, Part 1
Rounding up details from the Big Show not previously reported in all our other coverage, here’s more news in injection and blow molding, extrusion and compounding. Next month, we’ll conclude with recycling/scrap reclaim, robots, tooling, auxiliary equipment, materials and additives.

Firms Collaborate on 'Sustainable' HDPE Pharma Bottle
Milliken, SACMI, and Jarden Plastics combine on HDPE bottles that reduce plastic and energy use.

Blow Molding at NPE2018: Blow Molding Systems Run the Full Spectrum at NPE
Machines for every process—shuttle, wheel, reciprocating-screw, accumulator-head, suction-blow, injection-blow, compression blow, and one- or two-stage stretch-blow molding—will be running in Orlando. There will be a host of new models, including electric and servo-hydraulic types.

Compression Blow Forming Makes an Appearance at NPE2018
Unique high-volume, rotary blow molding system from Sacmi is running at NPE2018.
Blow Molding: New Buffer Integrates Bottle & Cap Molding with Filling Operations
SACMI combines PET bottle blowing, filling, capping, labeling in one machine; coordinates speeds of bottle and cap molding for integrated filling lines; and advances digital cap printing.