Companies in the food, beverage, detergent, personal hygiene, household cleaning, and pharmaceutical industries require increasingly efficient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly plants; to meet these needs, SMI has been constantly developing solutions that embed these features even in the container study and design phase, offering a comprehensive portfolio of innovative technologies with a low environmental impact.
Companies in the food, beverage, detergent, personal hygiene, household cleaning, and pharmaceutical industries require increasingly efficient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly plants; to meet these needs, SMI has been constantly developing solutions that embed these features even in the container study and design phase, offering a comprehensive portfolio of innovative technologies with a low environmental impact.The system of blowing, filling and capping with integrated inspection devices – 8 L bottles of water – 3,200 bottles/hour.
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The rPET solutions and tethered caps helping the use of sustainable materials
- rotary stretch-blow moulders for producing high-quality, lightweight rPET containers;
- integrated systems for producing, filling and capping (both traditional and tethered cap) rPET containers of different capacities, suitable for flat and carbonated products, milk and edible oil.
Even secondary packaging plays a key role in the marketing strategies of consumer goods manufacturers. Every day in the world billion doses of beverage, food and cleaning and personal care detergents are consumed, sold in containers with thousands of shapes and with several features that require proper protection during the handling and with a captivating design to draw the consumers’ attention.
The plastic-free solutions
The use of lighter cardboard packaging is strongly growing in companies that want to reduce the amount of material used, ensuring the same level of product protection and the same functions of a heavier packaging material. Among the most innovative solutions developed by SMI in this respect stand out the packers from the TPP range, machines suitable for realizing multipacks by means of the application of a top pad and a wide range of cardboard packers suitable for processing corrugated, kraft or Arcwise® cardboard.
The packs in 3×4 with 100% recycled film – 1.5 L bottles of water.
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Stretch or recycled film
Depending on the type of product to be packed and on the target market, the range of SMI packers enable to choose the most appropriate solution for the secondary packaging in stretch or 100% recycled film for the use of sustainable materials; the latter can be used on all machines equipped with hating tunnel supplied by SMI, allows to obtain packs with the same quality of the ones in non-recycled film and can be neutral or printed to enhance the brand visibility.
