Sacmi-developed innovation has won over Parmalat (Lactalis Group), which has now chosen the IPS (injection preform system) platform to renew its Piana di Monteverna (Caserta) plant. Here, as of today, PET preforms are being manufactured for the milk sector, providing the lightest. highest-performing 1-litre bottles on the Italian market.
Developed with the clear aim of offering customers a complete, integrated platform that stands out from alternative solutions on account of its user-friendliness and fast, easy size changeover, the IPS 220 features some great design innovations on the mould clamping unit which – thanks to intense design work involving FEM techniques to optimise mechanical inertia – ensures ultra-fast lock-to-lock times, thus shortening preform production cycles.
A key feature on the solution installed by Parmalat is the all-Sacmi mould. This complete 48-cavity injection mould (hot half and cold half) stems from painstaking in-company design of each component and is characterized by optimized channels inside the hot chamber, plus high-efficiency cooling circuits; the latter facilitate heat exchange to provide ultra-high performance production cycles, as already demonstrated during the simulation and testing carried out jointly by the Sacmi research centre and the Parmalat R&D facility.
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