Algar Agro has been working with Sidel, a leading provider of production equipment and services for liquids in PET, to reduce the total weight of its finished bottle from 18 to 14 grams.
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Algar Agro bottle line
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The Sidel Matrix blower is a modular blow moulding system that delivers very fast changeover times, lower environmental footprint, higher oven efficiency, and greater uptime, all contributing to a lower TCO. The machines were installed in bottling lines producing 25,000 PET bottles of vegetable oil per hour.
Three sizes of blowing stations make it possible to produce a variety of distinctive bottle shapes for single-serve (up to 750ml), multi-serve (up to 2 litres) or extended bottles family (up to 3.5 litres).
The machine is equipped with electrical stretching for better control of material distribution and the embedded machine intelligence increases self-monitoring and automation of processes to achieve safe packaging. Specially designed to reduce scrap, the Sidel Matrix blower can also automatically detect and eliminate bottle process deviations.
Algar Agro was able to make savings in weight and in raw material used. It has also minimised the cost to produce, package and transport the finished product, along with lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the production equipment itself. With the acquisition of two Sidel Matrix blowers Algar Agro believes it is the first oil producer in Brazil with integrated injection and blowing in its PET production process.
Edney Valente Lima Filho, a Project Manager with Algar Agro, explained: “The success of Sidel was assured by the know-how demonstrated during the negotiation to propose and ensure the new bottle for vegetable oil was the lightest in the world!”
