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Altajir Glass Bottle Factory Expansion,
Diagram showing the set up of the glass bottle manufacturing plant.	System for quality control on the hot end.	Emhart 340 forehearth.
Glass melt in a furnace crucible.	Exhaust and sampling probe at the facility.	Exhaust cooling unit and carbon filter.

Amcor Beverage Can Plant Upgrade,
The 202 SuperEnd of the Ezi Drink Can format.	Amcor has upgraded its can manufacturing plant at Rocklea, Queensland, to produce the new 'Ezi Drink Can', which replaces the old format 375ml, 206 (2 6/16in) diameter can.	Part of the SIG EndoMat system used to extrude the can bodies.
Various cans produced under licence from Crown Cork and Seal, Inc. and the Victoria Beer 'cricket shirt' can.	The SIG EndoMat system used to produce the 202 Super End.	The stamping press used to produce the blanks from sheet aluminium prior to 'blanking' and 'deep drawing'.

Amcor Flexibles Forge Short Run
Amcor's forge concept is to print, by gravure, a high number of short run designs each day, while at the same time reducing lead times.	The dedicated Wickeltechnik slitter has special features that enable it to be set up much faster than a conventional slitter.	Because of its low cost base and its responsive and flexible culture, Amcor Flexibles S&R operation near Edinburgh, Scotland was chosen to host Amcor's first short run gravure operation based on the Forge concept.

Amcor PET Bottle Production Line, Blythewood, SC
Sidel's SBO Universal PET bottle molder installed at Amcor's Blythewood facility.	Amcor feels the SBO Universal is the best machine running at its plant today.	Polyethylene terephthalate is provided as pellets and the blow molding equipment produces a range of bottles.

Amcor Wine Bottle Manufacturing
400 million wine bottles of varying designs and colours are produced at the plant every year.	Special bottle shapes manufactured at the facility.	The Gawler bottle manufacturing plant is located 15 minutes from the Barossa Valley, the heartland of one of Australia's major wine producing regions.
The melting furnace has a capacity of 450t a day and feeds two production lines, each installed with two inspection loops and one palletiser feeding into a single automatic shrink wrapper.	Coloured bottles are becoming frequently requested as a way of enhancing brand image.

Avery Dennison Roll Materials Europe New
The new coater, Lux2, will give high quality coating and laminating capability.	Storage tanks for inks and coating materials.	A close up of film lamination.
Lux2 and is capable of siliconisation, adhesive coating and lamination in line.	Lux2 will free up some capacity on the other coater (Lux1) for more specialist, performance-critical products and for R&D work.

Colorpack Print Packaging Line, Berlin
Colorpack installed a six-colour Rapida 142 with two coater towers, with intermediate drying and extended delivery.	The Bobst Group supplied the automatic flat bed diecutter because of its ability to adapt to a variety of substrates.	Quality monitoring at the console and at the Densitronic S colour measurement.
With a maximum trim size of 1,450mm x 1,035mm and production speed of up to 9,500 sheets per minute, the Sprintera series allows a continuous production flow with minimum downtime.

Hood Packaging Bottomer and Palletising
The PB 2555 pinch bottomer processes flat and side gusseted tubing into open mouth pinch bottom sacks that have ultrasonically sealed mitered corners.	Acromat 2 robot palletiser improves logistics of the production line and reduces time in the paper sack filling process.	Transystems manages the logistics of the multiwalled production process.
Transystems protects intermediate and finished products from damage caused during handling and transport.	The AD 8310 has multiple valve units and bottom patch capabilities.

ISO Poly Films Co-Extrusion Film Line,
VAREX® blown film line is a modular blown film system for monolayer and coextrusion, including barrier films.	VAREX® blown film line tailored to specific requirements of ISO Poly Films.

Knick Knack Double Pack
The Latta im Frischeduo twin pack.	The pack has the convenience of leaving half the product untouched to stay fresher.	The pack is being targeted towards single households.

OAO Ufa PSZ Glass Bottle Production Facility, Ufa
Anadolu Cam is building a new glass beverage container plant in Ufa, central Russia.	Glass bottling taking place at the Ruscam-Ufa plant.

Paul Freund Rigid Box and Folding Carton Plant,
Stokes and Smith fully automated D-Line produces high quality boxes suitable for many retail applications.	Paul T. Freund recently invested in Emmeci's MC92 and MC94 converting machines.	Stokes and Smith H and B models provide the choice between an automated or semi-automated line.
Layout of the automated line.	Layout of the semi-automated line.

Riverside Plastics Extrusion Blow Moulding
Riverside Plastics' new facility required a new investment of £50,000 (€70,000) in moulding equipment.	Hesta extrusion blow moulding machine.	The two new extrusion blow moulding machines (the Hesta HS 451) will handle the production of containers from 5ml to 250ml.
Riverside Plastics made the design for the Freshorize three-in-one bottle.	Extrusion-blow-moulded STP Fuel System Treatment bottle to be manufactured by Riverside Plastics.	The Pug bottle is stackable and available in many different colours.

Smurfit-MBI Corrugated Container Plant Ontario
Different corrugated board flute forms.	Edge crush testing machine.	Examples of the wall thicknesses of corrugated card.
Module facer and double facer, as will be installed in the new facility.	Glue unit and preheater used in manufacture of the board and boxes.	Rotary shear used to cut board to size and a slitter scorer which forms the box template.
Splicer and stacker machine.

Steklarna Hrastnik
The new glass container and tableware production plant represented one of the largest investments in Slovenia in 2004 and is one of the most modern of its kind in Europe.	The facility produces a wide variety of glass containers suitable for the packaging of products such as food (bottled vegetables and sauces), olive oil, perfume, soft drinks, spirits and wine.	In October 2004 RUDIS d.d. Trbovlje was awarded the turnkey EPC contract for the new facility.
The new plant required an estimated investment of €27 million and was completed and operational by autumn 2005.	RUDIS constructed the facility in a standard steel frame, concrete block and aluminium panel design.	The new plant has been designed around four furnaces and four production lines.

Stora Enso Corrugated Board and Packaging Plant,
The total construction cost of the Arzamas corrugated board and packaging plant was €33 million.	The construction included 15,000m² of production and storage facilities.	Arzamas is located 400km east of Moscow.
The plant produces double- and triple-wall corrugated board.	When the Arzamas plant reaches full capacity, the plant will produce 120 million m² of corrugated board per year.	The corrugator was supplied by BHS Corrugated.
The rotary die cutter was supplied by Martin.	The flexo folder and the rotary die cutter (both Martin) convert the corrugated sheets to boxes.

Trafford Press Group Multi-Colour Carton
Trafford Press Group has doubled its multi-colour print capacity in Doncaster by installing a new Komori Lithrone 528C press for multi-colour carton printing.	Trafford Press Group can now expand its carton printing services with four-colour and five-colour jobs.

Vacumet Plastic Film Metallising Facility,
The Galileo metallisers at the Austell facility will measure the thickness and uniformity of deposited aluminium coatings with their non-contact CMS Dual-Mode Deposition monitors.	Integrated with the new metallisers are Galileo Masterslit 3312 slitter/rewinders.	The Austell facility has two metallisers, each capable of metallising plastic film in roll sizes to 132in wide at speeds of up to 995m/min.
Galileo vacuum system Gold 3310 metalliser.	Rewinding system used at the new plant.	Galileo vacuum system Gold 3312 metalliser.
The metallisers feature a computer control system to provide operators with real-time analysis of critical parameters that are displayed and controlled through two touch-screen monitors.	Vacumet's Polytype gravure coater handles webs 86.5in wide and 50in roll diameters. It can coat aqueous and solvent formulations in direct, reverse or offset gravure modes.

Valdese Packaging & Label Sheetfed Press,
The Diamond 1000LS is a 28in, six-color press that enables Valdese to produce high-quality printed packaging products.

Zumbiel Packaging Production Plant, Hebron, KY
Zumbiel Packaging, a paperboard consumer company which produces a range of packaging for soft drinks, peanut butter and many other consumer goods, is moving its operations to a new plant in to Northern Kentucky.	The Zumbiel Packaging Flexpress 16 S is a 67in (1,700mm) wide, eight-colour, gearless, servo driven press.	Control centre of Flexpress 16S.
The new facility will be able to offer a full range of printing technologies - flexographic, lithographic and roto-gravure - and also state-of-the-art graphic and structural design.	Reels of printed paperboard prepackages prior to being converted.

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