Sica is investing in new technologies capable of guaranteeing high performance, process flexibility, and ease of use while enabling reduced energy consumption.
Sica
Shape your pipes, shape your future and ‘go green’
The need for innovative green technology in the plastic pipe production industry is capable of guaranteeing high performance, process flexibility and ease of use while enablimng reduced energy consumption. The need has become increasingly pressing and has had a marked influence on the design of various types of extrusion line machinery, including belling machines.
Sica, an Italian plastic pipe machinery manufacturer, has ‘gone green’ with its machinery in order to save energy, materials and process costs. All the machines in Sica’s line, from haul-off to packaging, has its own specific green features.
Regarding belling machines, the use of short-wave ovens that are active only during the heating phase and for the time needed to reach the final set temperature of the material helps reduce energy consumption and avoids scrap material.
Another aspect of the new belling process is the electromechanically operated socket forming unit in place of conventional hydraulic and pneumatic solutions. The decision to utilise electrical technology has produced several benefits, including highly dynamic operation, low noise levels, exceptional precision and repeatability of positioning, total real-time control of process parameters in terms of working strokes and speeds, and no contaminating fluids emission. These are important advantages for belling machines for small dimension pipes that were originally pneumatically operated.
All of Sica’s new belling machines, including Unibell and Multibell for PVC pipes, or Everbell for PP pipes, are highly productive (many models process more than one pipe simultaneously) and efficient.
Sica's decision to invest in these new technologies encourages not only a regard for the environment, it also leads to a reduction of pipe production costs, thus enabling faster returns on capital expenditures.
