Stretch Blow Molding
How Graham Packaging Counters PCR Supply/Demand Squeeze
Customers want more PCR—including food grade—than recyclers can supply. Solutions involve efforts to educate customers, employees, and the community at large. New technologies also offer hope.
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100% Recyclable PET Vies to Replace Composite Cans
Ring Container Technologies, Oakland, Tenn., a blow molder of HDPE and PET packaging, announced the first customer for its new SmartCAN, a PET can designed to replace the common composite can with a much more easily recyclable alternative at comparable cost.
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Plasma “Glass” Barrier Coating Developed for Reusable PET Bottles
IKV and KHS Corpoplast in Germany collaborate on SiOx barrier coating that can withstand caustic washing for multi-trip PET bottles.
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Injection Molding Gains an Edge in Motorcycle Gas Tanks
Complex shapes required for the latest motorcycle gas tanks favor injection over blow molding. Lanxess and BMW have a monolayer nylon solution.
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320 L Hydrogen Tank Liner Blow Molded in Nylon
Large liners for hydrogen composite pressure vessels are a challenge to blow mold. Kautex found a material and a technique to achieve a world “first.”
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How One Machine Builder Helps Fight the Coronavirus
Sidel converted its main stretch-blow molding development center to a production of PET hand-sanitizer bottles.
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New Concepts in PET Wine & Vitamin Bottles
Amcor’s two new looks for PET wine bottles—one with PCR---and a first all-PCR PET multivitamin bottle.
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Germany’s IKV to Build ‘Smart Factory’ R&D Center
Germany’s leading plastics institute bids to be a world leader in Industry 4.0 technologies.
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Injection Molding: ABB Robots Integrated Into B&R Machine Controls
Injection and blow molding machines with B&R controls can now integrate control of ABB robots.
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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.
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