Stretch film bundle for PET bottles halves the production costs

Consumption of plastic film halved, 60% energy saving, 40% costs reduction of plastic film: these are the objectives achieved by the innovative bundling stretch plant of PET bottles designed for the beverage industry, produced and distributed by A.l.m.a.c Packaging of Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milan).

On the table a unique proposition, since the shrink film is replaced by stretch film: as an example, a bundle of 6 bottles of mineral water of 1.5 l is wrapped with a maximum of 10 g of stretch film.
Each machine is designed for the exchange of grippers for bottles of 2 l, 1l up to 50 cc.

Almac Packaging has reached this result after more than 20 years of experience in construction of machines that produce and transform LLDPE stretch films like cast coextrusion plants, rewinding machines, prestretch and cutting machines.

A deep knowledge of the stretch films properties and the introduction on the market of new more performant films have contributed to the search of innovative technological solutions, which have allowed to realize a simple and versatile machine that substitute the heavier shrink film, eliminates the shrinking oven exploiting instead the cling properties and the new technical properties of stretch films, even in very low thicknesses.
The exclusive international patent no. PCT/B2010/002062 has exceeded the comparison of 19 claims as novelty (N), 19 such inventive processes (IS) and 19 of industrial applicability (A).

Almac Packaging has delivered the first pilot plant to Antalis Packaging (Leinfenden-Echterdingen-Germany) part of the European Antalis Packaging group.
Almac Packaging has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Antalis Packaging for the majority of the European countries, while the italian and non-european markets are directly managed by Almac Packaging.

With the intention to guaranty the best performances of the plant with the use of qualified stretch films, Antalis Packaging will operate in its area of competence , in close cooperation with the German manufacturer of high performance stretch films Orbita-Cast (Weissandt-Gölzau, Germany), a company affiliated to the multinational group Poli-Film.

 The plant performances also meet the requirements of environmental sustainability due to 50% reduction of plastics consumption even 100% recyclable, 60% reduction of energy costs and almost 50% reduction of carbon footprint

Antalis is the leading European distributor of paper, packaging solutions, and visual communications products ranking #3 worldwide, with sales of 2.7 billion Euros in 2012. Our 6,000 employees serve more than 135,000 print and business customers worldwide, in 44 countries through its 108 distribution centres. Antalis makes 12,000 deliveries per day in Europe, and distributes 1.9 million tons of paper per year worldwide. Antalis is the distribution arm of Sequana. Per further information: www.antalis.com or www.antalis-packaging.com For Italy: www.antalis-packaging.it