Sacmi at Emballage 2012: Integrated solutions for the beverage industry

PARIS – One hundred thousand specialised industry operators getting together with 1500 exhibitors, all with one precise ambition – to make “intelligent packaging” a reality – is the mission of Emballage, the packaging fair now in its 40th edition, to be held in Paris from 19th to 22nd November. It's an arena where packaging machinery group, Sacmi, intends to play a pivotal role.

Integrated packaging solutions specifically designed for the needs of the beverage industry will be playing a starring role for Sacmi display area (Hall 4, Stand 4 C 001), where visitors can take a close look at the latest solutions to be developed by Sacmi Beverage for stretch blowing, forming, labelling and filling fronts under an integrated production-marketing logic.

Systems for the injection production of PET preforms will be particularly evident thanks to the introduction of the new IPS: this latest Sacmi-developed system is characterised by flexibility and rapidity of size changeover, ergonomic solutions, energy savings, reduced overall dimensions and, lastly, a worldwide network of sales and after-sales services.

From preform production to the new Sacmi SBF stretch-blowing machines, highly efficient, reliable tools designed to shape bottles the way customers want them. The rotary blowers in the SBF range have from 6 to 24 blowing stations and are at the very apex of their category, ensuring hourly output rates of over 64,000 standard half-litre bottles. One of the key advantages of this blower is the possibility of installing, on every machine in the range, a one-cavity mould for large bottles (up to 3 litres) or a 2-cavity mould for small bottles (up to 0.6 litres); moreover, the switch from single to double cavity (and vice versa) is extremely simple and is completed very quickly. Hourly output can therefore be as high as 2700 small bottles per station.