CUSTOMIZED PREFORM MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS r PACKAGING NEWS OF THE WORLD

IMAGINE THE LOWEST TRANSFORMATION COST IN TOTAL FREEDOM. Short cycle times, high shot-to-shot quality, low energy consumption and maximum flexibility. The new XFORM 300 with its unique 6-position post-mold cooling system boosts your output performance for the widest range of preforms. Cooling preforms faster and better, the 96-cavity platform is ideal for large runs and quick mold changes. And it lets you run any mold you want, old or new, OEM-built or not, in total freedom. From ultra-thin walled (with proprietary XMould™ technology) to wide mouth. XFORM 300, low transformation cost, high value....

EDITORIAL I was looking through a book of quotations that other day. Here is one from Alan Kay: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” We at SIPA strongly believe that our task is not only meeting our customer’s demands, but also anticipate them and – just as important, if not even more important – meeting ones they never even knew they had. We see it as our job to get inside a customer’s head (without losing our own), to see how it feels to use preform molding equipment, stretch-blow molding equipment, filling equipment, packaging equipment, day-in, day-out – and to try and find...

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SIPA HELPS PONTI ADD A TOUCH OF CLASS TO ITS GLAZES Here’s one for the foodies. With its gastronomic glazes, Ponti – the most famous Italian producer of vinegar, pickles, condiments and sauces – offers intense sweet and sour flavours in a dense liquid that merges modernity and heritage and which is just dying to bring all sorts of dishes to life. Ponti has been using SIPA SFR rotary stretch-blow molding machines for a few years now to produce 1-L PET bottles for various wine vinegars. Last year, it took its first linear unit, an SFL 4/4, to produce a new design of small bottles for its Gastronomic...

testing and offered other complementary services. SIPA has a wellproven capability to develop and prototype new bottle designs for its customers. It has partnered with numerous customers, around the world and across various sectors, to develop containers with innovative features that exploit the potential of PET to its maximum. In its prototyping operations, SIPA can produce original new preforms and containers, optimize existing preforms and containers and develop and test containers using different PET resins. The company’s test laboratory, equipped with 16 laboratory machines, is certified...

AROUND THE GLOBE - SOUTH AFRICA MPACT CALLS ON SIPA SKILLS FOR COST-EFFECTIVE PET PREFORM MOLD REFURBISHMENT One of southern Africa’s largest plastics and paper packaging businesses has been investing in SIPA mold-making technology and expertise. Mpact, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, and with 22 manufacturing sites across Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe, as well as its home country, already relies on SIPA SFL 4/4 linear stretch-blow molding machines for the production of PET hot-fill bottles – Mpact is in fact the only company in South Africa making this type of container. But...

AROUND THE GLOBE - SOUTH AFRICA Pet Hot -fill bottles produced by Mpact to reduce cycle time and increase part quality. The mold was used to make preforms for 500-mL bottles for a major soft drinks producer. Mpact’s aim was to have it converted to production of preforms for bottles in a format new to South Africa. These preforms incorporate special lightweight bases, which SIPA calls “Smart Base.” The final job involved refurbishment of three hot halves for molds with 48, 72 and 144 cavities, and which involved shipping the hot halves from Johannesburg to SIPA’s mold-making operation in Vittorio...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CHINA SIPA HELPS NONGFU SPRING TURN A FRESH IDEA FOR BOTTLED TEA INTO REALITY One of China’s largest beverage companies has turned to SIPA to help it bring a new concept to life. Nongfu Spring is a major supplier of mineral water, tapping into no fewer than eight sources across the country, with its filling operations all located close by. It also produces various fruit and vegetable juices, health drinks, and teas. The company is headquartered in Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province. Last year, SIPA collaborated with Nongfu Spring on the development of a novel bottle...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CHINA problems for a long time, and we have a knowledge base that goes back more than 25 years, so of course in the end the problem was solved.” Indeed, when the new teas were launched on the market, they drew lavish praise from con- sumers. SIPA’s product development input for the new tea bottle was complemented with new tools. The company built supplied Nongfu Spring with molds for the preforms as well as for the finished bottles. The molds run on machines from diverse suppliers. Nongfu already had good experience with SIPA molds. It began using cold halves from the company...

SIPA HELPS BACKUS STAY IN FRONT WITH CSD BOTTLING LINE Peru’s largest brewery is also making a name for itself in carbonated soft drinks. The Union of Peruvian Breweries Backus and Johnston, commonly known simply as Backus, has been producing beer since 1879, and has been part of the SABMiller group for the last nine years. One of its operation bottling CSDs was recently designated the most efficient in the entire global group. SIPA can take some of the credit for that, since it supplied the complete bottling line. It also supplied the stretch-blow molding equipment used by Backus’ in-house bottle...

AROUND THE GLOBE - PERU AROUND THE GLOBE -PERU its soft drinks as well as its mineral water (which happens to be the only one produced in Peru). It now produces around 2.5 million hectoliters of soft drinks and water per year. The company has done well, not only because of market conditions, but also because it has an excellent team working with quality equipment. Backus works with a focus on sustainable development, aiming to create shared value with its supply chain partners and the communities in which it operates. Plus, it strives hard to ensure that its personnel feel part of success. “Everyone...