Asia's most important packaging and processing technology fair for the drink & pharma industries sees the Group showcase its cap and container manufacturing solutions. These solutions incorporate all the advantages of a technology that is winning over the market thanks to excellent productivity, efficiency, precision and process repeatability
One of just a handful of competitors in the world capable of developing a comprehensive range that covers every stage of beverage production, Sacmi will be taking part in the 26 th edition of Propak Asia, the continent's biggest packaging and processing fair for the drink & pharma sectors (Bitec, Bangkok, 13-16 June 2018). Taking centre-stage at the 48 m 2 Sacmi booth (located in the collective Italian Ucima display area, hall 98, stand n° 104 ) will be the company's compression technology, which has profoundly innovated global plastic cap manufacturing standards.
A continuous process offering outstanding repeatability, precision and reduced weight and cost: these are the goals of Sacmi's ongoing research in the Closures sector, the results of which are incorporated in the latest generation of CCM (continuous compression moulding) presses. Equipped with the COOL+ mould, CCM presses have the lowest running costs on the market and consume little energy, all thanks to the intrinsic advantages of this technology, which operates at lower temperatures than injection.
Because it's possible to set the parameters of each individual cavity directly from the operator interface, the solution allows real-time management and monitoring of output quality. The Sacmi team designs the cap and cap-preform system together with the customer, allowing production to evolve towards high-added- value items that combine excellent performance with low weight.
Sacmi CBF (compression blow forming), instead, the revolutionary container manufacturing system that uses a compression system which starts directly with the pellets, has succeeded in extending the advantages of this technology into areas beyond cap production. Precise and versatile, CBF combines the best features of alternative technologies such as EBM, IBM and ISBM with an ability to operate with all the main commercially available resins.
Thanks to excellent thermodynamic stability throughout the process, no gate on container bottoms, high productivity and precision-moulded necks, this technology is already starting to make a marked difference in the industry, especially in the dairy and pharma sectors; some thirty such solutions have already been installed in the USA, India, China, Japan and other countries. More generally, CBF gives manufacturers the opportunity to produce stretch-blown containers at low cost; performance remaining equal, these can be up to 20% lighter, maximise precision and uniformity of thickness and offer perfect process repeatability.
To ensure total quality Sacmi completes its machines and plants with a comprehensive range of vision systems, designed to work at high speed, directly on the line. Modules such as CHS and BVS (for cap and container quality control respectively) allow, via SACMI CVS3000 inspection software and high resolution image capture devices (up to 5 MP), accurate control of even the tiniest defects. All Sacmi inspection systems can be equipped with the advanced CVS360-3D module. Fully designed and developed by the Group's Automation & Inspection Systems Division, it can, thanks to perfect 2D reconstruction of the three-dimensional item, perform precision inspection of an object perimeter even where its shape is complex.
A major provider of complete 'pellet to pallet' PET processing lines, Sacmi operates throughout Asia via a far-reaching branch network. More specifically, Sacmi Thailand – located in the capital city's trade fair district, just a stone's throw from the event – provides manufacturers with a pre and post-sales assistance hub that provides close support rightfrom the design stage with personalised solutions that maximise returns on investment. Sacmi Thailand, in fact, is staffed both by technicians from the Italian parent company and local workers specially trained to dialogue with customers in individual target countries.
