Milacron’s Uniloy product brand installs Meech’s 929IPS DC bars on blow moulding machines
Milacron’s Uniloy blow moulding product brand, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of plastic processing systems, has been installing Meech’s Hyperion 929IPS DC ionising bars for the past three years to reduce the level of static activity on its blow moulding equipment.
Founded in the USA in 1950, Uniloy’s European facilities are located in Magenta, Italy, with multiple manufacturing facilities situated in Germany. Milacron employs more than 5,000 people worldwide across all of its product brands and generates annual sales of more than $1 billion.
Milacron is the world’s only supplier of a complete product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection moulding, blow moulding and extrusion equipment, DME mould technologies and CIMCOOL fluid technologies. Uniloy machines are used to manufacture various parts and containers for a number of industries, including packaging, automotive, medical and cosmetics.
Massimo Davoli, Global Product Manager – Shuttle Blow Moulding at Uniloy, explains how his company came to recognise the need for an anti-static solution. “Depending on the processed material, speed and ambient conditions, high static charges can build up on the extruded parisons during the blow moulding process. Static can have a serious effect on parison alignment, with a particularly high concentration of static being able to cause the parisons on the blow moulding lines to swing out of place. Product misbehaviour can potentially result in malfunctioning equipment, loss of production and poor container quality which will lead directly to increased rejection rates.”
NOTICIAS