Lightweight PET bottles for edible oil

SIPA Berchi of Veneto, Italy, manufacturer of stretch blow moulding machines for the production of PET bottles, has successfully installed a SIPA SincroBloc system for the Cargill Company in Spain which produces and packages edible oils. The machine will create lightweight PET bottles for its oil products brands such as Primadonna.

The use of extremely lightweight containers is a major focal point for the edible oil market, as the containers compensate for the product’s intrinsic weight while simultaneously maintaining a competitive price point for the end consumer. The containers are also required to be visually appealing and highly functional, transporting the valuable contents without damage or product leakage.

The SIPA SincroBloc system is a compact, integrated, blowing/filling/capping system. The SFR Evo Blowmoulder series has a production speed of up to 2200 bottles/cavity/h. The blowmoulder and filling machine are electronically synchronised and connected together with a bottle transfer unit. Bottles are positively transferred via a star-wheel module, allowing for the smooth transfer of any type of bottle.

The solution allows its own rotary blowmoulders to be synchronised with other manufacturers’ filling machines. This was a key factor in Cargill’s purchase decision, along with the quality and high production speeds of the SIPA machinery. In the case of Cargill’s, the SIPA SFR Evo Blowmoulder was connected to a third-party weight filling machine.