Recycling at K2019 “significantly streamlined” process. The company says it will also offer support for “more drastic material changes," such as a switch to paper, pulp or plant-based materials like PHA or PEF. • Sesotec GmbH will showcase metal detectors from its GF, Protector and Rapid Pro Sense 6 series. The detectors can be used in a variety of material infeed applications and ensure high plant availability for processing machinery and equipment by preventing unscheduled machine downtime due to metal particles and avoid the
repair costs associated with breaks in production and potential recalls. Also new is the ASM Quasar optical sorting system, which can be used in granulate quality assurance in plastics manufacturing to ensure that granulate with black spots, for example, are removed. Additional parameters, such as surface, shape and size, can also be analysed, making the system accurate in deciding what to keep or reject. It will also premiere the Flake Scan flake anaylsis system for laboratory use to inspect incoming goods.
Blow Moulding Technology at K2019 • US-based Jomar Corp, a manufacturer of injection blow moulding (IBM) machinery, will launch the TechnoDrive 65 PET machine, based on the high-speed TechnoDrive 65 launched last year. It is specifically designed to process PET but that can revert to more common polyolefins, by changing the screw. Features tailored for PET include a more robust screw motor, highpressure valves and built-in nozzle heaters. While some IBM machines require a fourth station to process PET, the new three-station IBM does this in the ejection station. It, thus, has a dry cycle time of 1.7 seconds, making it one of the fastest IBMs in the industry. Since injection-blown PET bottles average about 1 mm wall thickness, it is targeted at jars, vials, and bottles for the pharmaceutical or cosmetic industries rather than the beverage industry. At K2019, the new machine will run 50 ml perfume bottles in clear PET on a six-cavity mould.
sugarcane-HDPE. The middle layer will be PCR consisting of foamed Braskem green PE. These bottles produced at the show will be reclaimed by recycling machine maker Erema at its “Circonomic Centre” in the area outside the exhibit halls. • French machine maker 1Blow will show its two-cavity 2LO with three new options. First is a Preferential & Offset Heating Technology kit, allowing for flexibility for producing oval containers, even in opaque colours, and offsetneck bottles, previously thought impossible through reheat stretch-blow. Secondly, a tieredaccess system that limits operator access to some control functions, while allowing technicians full access. Thirdly, a compact in-machine leak tester from Delta Engineering that uses high voltage to detect and reject containers with micro-cracks. • Germany’s Krones will exhibit its high-speed Contiform 3 stretch blow moulding machine that is able to handle preforms with a 100% recyclate content. It has an output of up to 2,750 containers per blowing station, producing up to 82,500 containers, for still water, carbonated soft drinks and sensitive products.
Jomar will debut an entry-level machine
• Germany’s Kautex Maschinenbau will stay true to the Circular Economy theme with an allelectric KBB60 machine shown moulding a threelayer bottle from Brazilian supplier Braskem’s
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Krones will exhibit its latest high-speed stretch blow moulding machine