blow moulding

With a robust full stainless-steel modular construction and clean hygienic open design, features include high Skin with product protrusion capabilities, forming by blowing, vacuum and blowing, or plug assist, top film web with pre-heating station and precisely controlled motion by servo-driven gripper chains, and multi-format processes such as flex / flex, rigid films, and Skin processes all in the one machine with vacuum and gas as standard.

Esterform has recently installed in-house PET blending facilities at its specialist preform manufacturing site in Leeds. This new in-house facility offers greater flexibility with regard to the percentages of RPET used in manufacture. In order to provide the capacity to store greater quantities of raw material and to house the new blends we have also invested in new silo capacity.

A Dutch custom injection and blow molder has outfitted 40 extrusion blow molding machines with a wireless system for monitoring operating status and plans to extend the system to 30 more injection-blow and injection molding machines. Flestic in Dronten, the Netherlands, is now using the SmartMonitor system from Werma Signaltechnik in Germany (Werma USA Inc., Norcross, Ga., werma.com), which is described as a simple, cost-effective and retrofittable alternative to more complex monitoring systems.