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what's new
ed OBP to the final packaging, is accredited
under established certification regimes.
Flexible food packaging using OBP
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exterior grilles, air intake ducts, tanks and
degas bottles for the market, with more
coming soon.
Packaging
First flexible food packaging
based on recycled oceanbound
plastic launched in
Malaysia
In Malaysia, a premium brand of instant
noodles is now available in a flexible plastic
packaging solution made with 30% certified
PCR plastic content. Launched at major
retail outlets across the country, the packaging
is a world first.
The development is the result of a value
chain collaboration that aimed to bring
ocean-bound plastic back into the circular
material stream for conversion to high-quality
flexible packaging.
Headquartered in Malaysia, Scientex, a
producer of stretch film, is a leading player
in the flexible plastic packaging industry.
The company has used Sabic's certified
circular polypropylene, a grade belonging
to the company's Trucircle portfolio,
to produce the film for the packaging. The
PP, with a mass balance accounted oceanbound
plastic content of 30%, served as a
direct drop-in alternative in this new application,
with no need to change any existing
assets or processes.
Ocean-bound plastic, or OBP, is abandoned
plastic waste found in areas up to 50
km inland from waterways that may eventually
be washed into the ocean by rainfall,
rivers or tides. The OBP used in the project
is recovered and converted to pyrolysis oil
in a chemical recycling process. Sabic uses
this oil as an alternative feedstock to produce
certified circular PP polymer for further
processing to BOPP film.
Scientex then manufactures and prints
the noodle packs from this film. The entire
chain, from the management of the collectMachinery
PlastiVation
shows Tederic
NEO series for the first time at
Swiss Plastics Expo
With its participation in the Swiss Plastics
Expo show in January, PlastiVation Machinery
GmbH, founded in 2021, officially
launched its sales activities on behalf of
Tederic's NEO series of injection moulding
machines in Switzerland and Austria. At the
company's booth, a NEO-E55/e110h all-electric
toggle injection moulding machine, featuring
a KEBA machine control system and
12-inch screen, a clamping force of 55 tons
and a screw diameter of 25 millimeters, was
moulding transparent polystyrene plastic
cups. The 37-gram cups were moulded in a
minimum cycle time of 40 seconds.
The European launch of the four injection
moulding machine series supplied
by Tederic took place last year in Germany;
the move into Switzerland and Austria
is part of the Chinese brand's European
growth strategy.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag
expands all-electric injection
moulding machine range
Cycle times of between 3 and 12 seconds
and injection speeds of up to 350mm/s are
typical for the machine, which features high
performance drives, shorter clamp spindles
and a longer service life, all ultimately leading
to, on average, a 1-second cycle time
saving when compared with a standard IntElect
model.
As well, the IntElect S can lower energy
consumption to between 0.25 to 0.32 kilowatt
hours per kilogram, according to the
machine manufacturer. Compared with hybrid
machines, its increased production capacity,
combined with saving tens of thousands
of euros per year on energy, could
produce an exceptionally fast machine payback
time.
Engel launches flexible
financing option for new
machinery
Increasingly, new asset financing alternatives
are becoming available that reflect
the creativity and flexibility needed by
businesses today. Now, injection moulding
machinery manufacturer Engel is catching
the trend.
The company has announced it will be
offering a pay-per-use financing model,
next to the current options available to
customers in the market for new machines,
as the first in this space to do so. The new
model will serve to reduce the investment
risk for processors while at the same time
boosting their production flexibility.
According to the company, the payment
An IntElect S all-electric high-performance injection
moulding machine by Sumitomo (SHI) Demag.
Photo: Sumitomo (SHI) Demag
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is expanding its IntElect
S all-electric high-performance injection
moulding machine range specifically
designed for high-volume packaging, medical
and automotive applications - all areas
requiring the highest processing precision
in the fastest cycle time. With the addition
of the new medium clamping force (mid-)
machines of between 220 and 450 tons, the
company says it is 'filling an important gap
in the mass-manufacturing market'.
Positioned squarely between the conventional
IntElect all-electric series and the new
high-speed packaging injection moulding
machine PAC-E, the IntElect S is geared
specifically towards plastic processors
mass-manufacturing narrow-tolerance and
thin-walled components at high speeds.
Engel now
offeringpay-per-use
on
new machines
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is calculated as a function of the machine
utilisation rate and charged per unit produced
or unit of machine operating time
based on an agreed unit price. In this way,
processors avoid having to tie up their capital
in machinery or seek approval for substantial
new investment. It also makes the
procurement process easier and faster.
In addition, all production cells delivered
within the scope of the pay-per-use model
feature come with the online support and
remote maintenance tool e-connect.24,
which also provides the utilisation data on
which billing will be based. The machinery
will also be regularly serviced by Engel
technicians.
When the contract ends, the customer
can opt to purchase the machine, or it will
be taken in by Engel's pre-owned machinery
business Engel Used Machinery, ensuring
that the potential service life of the injection
moulding machine is 'utilised to the
max', said Engel.
The financing partner backing the new
pay-per-use solution by Engel is Vienna-headquartered
linx4 GmbH.
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