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Purple Line installs 2-stage stretch
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First of its kind in South Africa PURPLE Line Plastics, the Cape Townbased blow moulding business, has installed a two-cavity, two-stage stretch blow moulding machine from Yosion of &KLQD WKH Âż UVW RI LWV NLQG LQ 6RXWK $IULFD The system, supplied by GF Machinery, is a variation on injection stretch blow moulding solutions used to date: up WLOO QRZ WZR VWDJH ,6%0 V\VWHPV ZHUH conventionally used for the high capacity VHFWRU 7KH DOWHUQDWLYH ÂľRQH VWDJHÂś V\VWHP involved injection moulding of preforms and conveying to a stretch blowing station RQ DQ LQ OLQH EDVLV LQ RQH PDFKLQH %\ FRPSDULVRQ WKH <RVLRQ V\VWHP The machine is running 170ml PET containers at 1400 bottles an hour (around 8 million a year); the preforms are fed on to the conveyor and pass two IR heating banks before the blowing stage. With its small footprint, the machine is well suited for the production of small to medium size orders of cosmetic and pharmaceutical containers
comprises just an unscrambling device to orient the preforms, which are then placed on a conveyor and transported through two infrared heating tunnels EHIRUH UHDFKLQJ WKH EORZLQJ VWDWLRQ The logic here is that preforms can be produced separately and that blowing and injection times are not dependent RQ RQ RQH DQRWKHU $ YHUVDWLOH VROXWLRQ the system is suited to run medium sized RUGHUV RI VPDOO FRQWDLQHUV 7KLV LV WKH Âż UVW RI WKHVH PDFKLQHV WR EH FRPPLVVLRQHG LQ 6RXWK $IULFD George Ferreira of GF expects the Yosion VROXWLRQ WR EH SRSXODU LQ 6RXWK $IULFD 7KH PDFKLQHV DUH DOVR DYDLODEOH LQ DQG OLWUH VL]HV FDYLW\ FRQÂż JXUDWLRQV EXW )HUUHLUD VD\V KHÂśV RQO\ ORRNLQJ DW EULQJLQJ LQ WKH VPDOOHU PO FDYLW\ systems in at this stage, since these EHVW Âż W WKH FXUUHQW JDS LQ WKH PDUNHW Charl du Plessis of Purple Line Plastics said he will probably order another of the machines soon: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I decided to invest in the machine because its new technology and I ZDQWHG WR JHW LQWR VWDJH PDQXIDFWXULQJ ´ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The machine is also super energy HIÂż FLHQW KDV D VPDOO IRRWSULQW LV FRVW effective, has low tooling costs and LV HDV\ WR RSHUDWH DQG PDLQWDLQ ,W DOVR FRPHV ZLWK EDFN XS IURP *) 0DFKLQHU\ ´ VDLG 'X 3OHVVLV The machine is currently producing
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170ml PET containers at 1400 containers an hour (around 8 million a year), which is suitable for the production of small to medium size orders of cosmetic and pharmaceutical containers (it can also be used to SURGXFH FRQWDLQHUV LQ 33 DQG +'3( Purple Line is also building its own blow PRXOGV XVLQJ DOXPLQXP PDLQO\ Purple Line has also started producing LWV RZQ SUHIRUPV RQ $UEXUJ $OOURXQGHUV Charl says the company has been YHU\ EXV\ VLQFH 6HSWHPEHU ODVW \HDU Âł%XVLQHVV LV XS RQ ODVW \HDU ´ Âł:H Âż OO WKH QHHGV RI D VPDOOHU QLFKH PDUNHW :H FDQ SURYLGH RXU FXVWRPHUV ZLWK TXLFN WXUQDURXQG WLPHV Âą LQVLGH RI WKUHH ZHHNV Âą ZKLFK PDNHV D KXJH GLIIHUHQFH :H DUH DOVR PRUH Ă&#x20AC; H[LEOH WKDQ WKH ODUJHU PDQXIDFWXULQJ FRPSDQLHV DQG ZH FDQ FXVWRP PDNH ZKDW RXU FXVWRPHUV ZDQW ´ KH H[SODLQHG â&#x20AC;&#x153;The relationships we have with our clients also contribute a lot to our doing ZHOO ´ KH DGGHG Purple Line Plastics: phone 021 948 5042
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