Stretch Blow Molding
Lighter, Higher Performance Base Design for Premium rPET Bottles
Sidel’s StarLITE-R Premium base for thicker rPET bottles ensures bottle stability in high-speed production, while saving energy.
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Brewer Chooses Quick-Change Flexibility to Blow Wide Range of PET Beer Bottles
Beermaster Brewery found a “universal” stretch-blow machine from PET Technologies enables multiple changes per day among four sizes of beer bottles.
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End-to-End Quality Management For Aseptic PET Beverage Bottling
Sidel introduces Qual-IS comprehensive quality system to merge all QC activities in PET aseptic beverage bottling, from the preform blowing to laboratory management.
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For Extrusion and Injection-Blow Molders, Numerous Upgrades in Machines and Services
Uniloy is revising its machinery lines across the board and strengthening after-sales services in tooling maintenance, spare parts and tech service.
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New Bottle Base for Nitrogen-Dosed Products in 100% rPET
Sidel’s new StarLITE-R Nitro offers an alternative to petaloid bases with equal performance in a wide range of 100% rPET bottle sizes.
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Breaking News From NPE2024
Here is a firsthand report of news in injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and recycling not previously covered.
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Coca-Cola’s Redesign of Small PET Bottles Pushes Lightweighting Below Prior ‘Floor’
Coca-Cola thought it had reached the limits of lightweighting for its small PET carbonated soft drink bottles. But a “complete redesign” led to a further 12% reduction.
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Stretching the Boundaries of Large PET Containers
NPE2024: Cypet shows off new capabilities for its ISBM machines.
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At NPE, Cypet to Show Latest Achievements in Large PET Containers
Maker of one-stage ISBM machines will show off new sizes and styles of handled and stackable PET containers, including novel interlocking products.
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All-Electric Shuttle and Stretch-Blow Machines
NPE2024: Meccanoplastica shows off a double-sided shuttle for containers up to 5 L and a reheat stretch-blow molder for up to 2.5 L PET containers with four cavities — both all-electric.
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