Lighter than ever

The latest Sipa development in water sector brings to the market another step towards cost effectiveness, lightweight and technology development particularly needed in the water market: the lightest bottles in the world produced, filled and labelled in the Tribloc technology. The 1,500-ml bottle for flat or carbonated mineral water at 22 g is blown in Sipa rotary blow-moulders at 2,000 bph per cavity, and filled and labeled in the new Tribloc including the innovative PE roll-adhesive labeler. For a Greek customer, the company has developed such a bottle, holding 60 kg of top load, and is supplying a complete turn-key line including a Tribloc systema and a packaging and pallettising line. The Tribloc gives the following advantages: neck handling of very light containers through the complete blowing-filling-labelling process; the PE roll-adhesive technology eliminates all the burdens and headraces of hot melt glue and traditional label cutting knives; the packing line becomes much simpler since bottles are delivered from the Tribloc into table-top conveyors straight to the shrink packer, slowing down to easy low conveying speeds; the space required for such a line is reduced by 40% versus a conventional line.