From new ‘lightened’ necks that upgrade the consumer experience while optimizing energy and resources, to new certified standards (26/22 mm, GME 30.40) with which SACMI is taking packaging into the future. At Gulfood Manufacturing, SACMI will be showcasing its best technology alongside the market’s widest range of vision and process control systems. Dateline: Dubai, from 5 to 7 November 2024
Tailor-made solutions, certified by the global industry’s top players, and technology ready to rise to the challenges of new standards and innovative materials: SACMI will be showcasing all this and more at the international Gulfood Manufacturing 2024 fair (Dubai World Trade Center, 5-7 November, stand E1-43 HALL 1 Processing & Packaging), the Gulf’s biggest packaging & processing technology event.
New ‘lightweight’ necks for an unrivalled consumer experience: saving energy and resources
15% less PET consumption, without any impact on the market’s most widespread standards, such as caps for 29/25 mm necks: this is just one of several opportunities SACMI offers the industry, smoothing its transition to more efficient standards by putting customers’ needs - and the consumer experience - first at all times.
The new lightweight neck proposed by SACMI requires no modifications to the standard cap. Moreover, the unmatched skills of the SACMI Rigid Packaging Lab and the dedicated technologies - which span from cap forming (CCM, continuous compression molding) to preform production (IPS, injection preform system) - make the solutions highly customizable.
New 26/22 mm standards certified by the world’s major brand owners
The industry’s technological leader, a provider of transformative solutions that ensure tip-top efficiency and profitability, SACMI combines new ‘lightweight’ solutions with a comprehensive cap range on the new 26/22 mm standard, GME 30.40: the latter is increasingly popular on account of next-level environmental performance and resource optimization.
Still water, CSD, hot filling: for each production type, SACMI offers the widest range on the market, available in both tethered and non-tethered versions, with virgin resin consumption savings that can, considering neck and cap, be as high as 30% compared to today's most widespread standards.
From a recycling perspective, SACMI offers both cutting-edge technology, such as post-processing tamper band slitting, and a new generation of cap and preform presses that are designed to meet the challenges of alternative materials, recycled resins and, looking ahead, innovative components such as cellulose fiber.
Unequalled expertise and experience
Thanks to its unmatched expertise and experience in developing integrated solutions - from neck to cap and stretch-blow molding of the finished container - the SACMI Rigid Packaging Lab acts as a true ‘Competence Center’: this means customers whose investment decisions also target product development can count on the best available technology and close support every step of the way.
Service excellence encompasses every phase of product design, development of the cap-preform system and the relative seal tests. This ensures perfect compliance with guidelines thanks to daily teamwork between the SACMI Lab and the industry's main global brands.
With Velomat, SACMI’s expertise extends to the assembly of complex caps (sport caps, dispensers, etc.) with electronically-controlled machines that deliver the highest speeds on the market.
Process vision system. New opportunities with AI
With SACMI, quality control is evolving away from the inspection of individual products towards process control, allowing better management of machines and the production line as a whole. Once again, what makes the difference is unrivalled expertise. Systems (e.g. quality control of slit and tamper band on the new tethered caps) are available both embedded in SACMI machines and located downstream from alternative technologies such as cap-making injection machines.
For customers, this translates into a dual opportunity: all-round partnership with SACMI – with all the advantages that brings in terms of process management, versatility and footprint optimization – or intervention on existing lines to equip them with next-gen vision systems for every stage of the process, their performance enhanced even further by new software and AI.
This futuristic scenario – machines capable of self-adjusting and ‘talking’ to the operator – is already a reality at SACMI, thanks to new cutting-edge systems such as the GILDA-AI virtual assistant.
Visit the SACMI stand at Gulfood Manufacturing 2024. Dubai World Trade Center, 5-7 November, E1-43 – Hall 1 Processing & Packaging.