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BLOW MOULDING

Q&A

Blowing away
the competition

Set up earlier this year in Bologna, Italy, and supported by a strong group of industry veterans,
AlphaMAC is bringing fresh blood to the blow-moulding machinery industry. Its vision is clear: to
future-proof packaging companies with its digitalisation and materials expertise. Moreno Minghetti,
CEO AlphaMAC spoke to Shahrzad Pourriahi

"

AlphaMAC is a brand-new kid on the block. What is
the story behind its founding?
AlphaMAC was 'born' at the beginning of 2019 as the
brainchild of a group of highly specialised experts in the
packaging field who wanted to build an innovation-driven
company, which would stand out for its ability to adapt to
the various needs of users and would create added value
through its solutions for existing and newly emerging
problems.
Our team has decades of experience in the field of extrusion and blow-moulding and an in-depth knowledge of
the latest technologies, raw materials and complete packaging lines. This combination has helped us to become,
within a very short period of time, a reference point in the
machinery industry for the production of plastic fluid containers.

"We put a lot of effort
into considering all the
most recent regulations
concerning raw
materials,
continuously
updating
our technical
solutions"

AlphaMAC describes itself as an avant-garde in fluid
packaging. Can you tell us what exactly is it that
gives the edge to AlphaMAC?
When we say we are the "avant-garde in fluid packaging", what we mean is that we aim to be the first to
propose innovative solutions on the market, solutions
that are also able to anticipate the problems that arise as
new technologies continue to evolve - and we do so by
developing new concepts of mechatronic machines
which do not need highly skilled operators in order to
function properly.
The members of our team offer a wealth of experience
gained at different firms and in various roles. Throughout
their career, they have always been part of innovations in
the extrusion and blow-moulding field.
Some of these concepts have now become established
standards, such as the introduction in 1985 of in-mould
labelling with completely recyclable plastic labels, which
could be re-used to produce new containers.
In 1987, we developed a multi-layer technology that
made it possible to use regrind material derived from the
rejects produced after colour changes which, at that time,
required many hours of production of non-saleable and
non-reusable containers.
Our people developed the concept of sterile blowing
for UHT products in 1992. This technology enabled the
production of hermetically sealed bottles waiting for filling with no need for any rinsing of the inner part of the
bottle with chemical products. The technology is still
used today and has since been adopted by other manufacturers.
Another achievement was the design and manufacture
of the first "Combi" machine for polyethylene bottles in
2001, which allowed in-line blowing and filling in an extremely compact layout, anticipating the co-packing concepts in HDPE blow-moulding applications.
This year, our team developed a number of new solutions related to fluid packaging, including our patented

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system to eliminate aluminium foil in various dairy-based
product packaging, as well as others, which are currently
patent pending.
Innovation is in our DNA and today, applied in this new
industrial reality, it will keep AlphaMAC ahead of the other
companies active in this field.
Can you tell us more about your "lean" production
structure? What does it involve?
Our business model is in itself not new and it has long
been used in other segments of the packaging machinery
manufacturing industry. What's new is that it had never
before been applied to companies building extrusion and
blow-moulding machines.
Our approach involves a focus inside the company on
the different high value activities - such as the management and supervision of design, research and development of innovation, in particular with regard to new raw
materials, sales and customer support.
The remaining so-called "low value" activities are delegated to a consolidated network of companies specialised
in the construction and testing of automatic packaging
machinery.

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