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C-20 DeDuster® – removes dust and streamers Better systems for brilliant products and higher margins. Learn more: www.pelletroncorp.com streamers Better systems for brilliant products and higher margins. streamers streamers Better systems for brilliant products and higher margins. No dust + No streamers = Reduced scrap rate and production costs www.pelletroncorp.com www.pelletroncorp.com and production costs Visit us at booth # W2153 NPE 2018: May 07 – 11, 2018 Extrusion Line Control System The new maax 400S extrusion control system from Maag (U.S. office in Charlotte, N.C.) can control up to four variable-speed drives and can be upgraded up to a maximum of 32 heating/cooling zones in the basic software configuration. The maax 400S retains the intuitive user control, screen page layout, and color concept of Maag's existing controllers. It also enables customer-specific requirements, such as page layout, additional pages, or special component control. Integrated statistical functions and process-data memory enable traceable quality management. 888-622-4872 • maag.com EXTRUSION New Buffer Integrates Bottle & Cap Molding with Filling Operations What's said to be "the world's first cross- process platform" capable of integrating bottle blow molding and cap injection molding inline with filling was shown operating at September's Drinktec 2017 beverage technology fair in Munich, Germany. SACMI of Italy (U.S. office in Des Moines, Iowa) present a system using its new CPB cap and preform buffer magazine, which reportedly permits synchronizing the two molding operations, despite their differing productivity param- eters. SACMI says the CPB unit offers converters "the ability to move closer to bottlers" by using through-the-wall or in-house manufacturing solutions. Other news from SACMI at Drinktec included HeroBlock, an all-new "quad- block" system that combines stretch-blow molding, filling, capping, and labeling in one machine. "Total elimination of conveying systems and intermediate stages" offers "unique compactness," according to SACMI. Also new was digital label printing, a further advance on SACMI's Colora Cap digital (inkjet) cap-printing technology, which offers "agile customization"—the ability to change the print image from cap to cap. Drinktec 2017 also previewed a new digital label-printing module, integrated into the bottle labeler, which allows agile customization of preprinted labels without the difficulties that come with printing directly on the bottle. This is described as an affordable device that can be retrofitted to existing equipment and can be used with any bottle shape. 515-276-2052 • sacmiusa.com BLOW MOLDING @plastechmag 75 Plastics Technology N E W P R O D U C T S F O R P L A S T I C S P R O C E S S I N G