Rotary blow moulding machine with 24 stations

From March 4 to 12, Techne Graham Packaging Company Italia has organized a showroom at its headquarters in Castel Guelfo, near Bologna (Italy), to present its mechatronic rotary extrusion and blow moulding machine Rotax. RX24 is a high capability machine in terms of production and redeployment. The 24 stations in dual parison configuration allow to reach very high production capacities (more than 30,000 containers per hour for 250 ml ones) with a high repeatability.
The products which can be manufactured on this machine range from small containers (250 ml to 500 ml) produced in neck to neck, to medium containers (1 to 2 litres) or bigger ones (up to 5L), for food, detergent or lubricants. In case of small containers, a chord adjustment system allows to use appropriate moulds and to limit the production of scraps.
The machine presented during the showroom is producing 6-layer 800-ml coround jars for food, neck to neck, for a total capacity of 17,000 bottles per hour. Machine comes with a complete downstream to take out the log, cut the jars and upright them.