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    Bottles, Preforms and Closures: A Design Guide for PET Packaging
    Bottles, Preforms and Closures: A Design Guide for PET Packaging
    Bottles, Preforms and Closures: A Design Guide for PET Packaging
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    Bottles, Preforms and Closures: A Design Guide for PET Packaging

    By Ottmar Brandau

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    As a consultant to the plastics industry, Ottmar Brandau’s focus is on using his engineering knowhow and production management experience to improve quality and productivity, cut down cycle time and introduce secondary processes such as inline printing. This book is a thoroughly practical handbook that provides engineers and managers with the toolkit to improve production and engineering aspects in their own businesses – saving money, increasing output and improving competitiveness by adopting new technologies.

    In this book, Brandau covers the engineering aspects of bottle production and the relevant production processes (focusing on blow molding), along with plant layout and organization and production management, to produce the definitive handbook for engineers and managers alike.

    • Learn the tricks of the trade from an experienced engineer and manager
    • Save money: Practical strategies to improve cycle times
    • Increase productivity: Improve plant layout and organization and implement secondary processes such as inline printing
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateJun 29, 2012
    ISBN9781437735284
    Bottles, Preforms and Closures: A Design Guide for PET Packaging
    Author

    Ottmar Brandau

    Ottmar Brandau is President of Apex Container Inc. in Ontario, Canada. Brandau is a member of the Society of Plastics Engineers and was previously VP Operations at Magic North America Inc.

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      Bottles, Preforms and Closures - Ottmar Brandau

      2011

      Chapter 1

      PET Beverage Bottles

      Dr. Christian Detrois

      Thomas Steinbauer

      formerly with Krones AG

      Chapter Outline

      1.1 From the First Idea to the Finished Bottle

      1.1.1 Development Over the Past 25–30 Years

      1.1.2 Starting Point of a Product Development

      1.1.2.1 Product Life Cycle

      1.1.2.2 Competitors

      1.1.2.3 Product

      1.1.2.4 Filling Process

      1.1.2.5 Bottle Transport

      1.1.2.6 Preform

      1.1.2.7 Shape of the Base

      1.1.2.8 Mouth/Neck/Cap

      1.1.2.9 Volume

      1.1.2.10 Markets

      1.1.2.11 Labeling

      1.1.2.12 Transport Packaging Specifications

      1.1.2.13 Approval Procedure

      1.1.2.14 Time Frame

      1.1.3 Design Engineering

      1.2 Determination of Bottle Properties

      1.2.1 Top Load

      1.2.2 Internal Pressure

      1.2.3 Handling Stability

      1.2.4 Stress Cracking

      1.2.5 Barrier

      1.3 Generating the First Design in CAD

      1.3.1 The Bottle Design Already Exists

      1.3.2 Creation of a New Design

      1.4 From Shape to Full-Fledged Design for a Dependable Process

      1.4.1 From the Ideal to the Real Preform

      1.4.1.1 Standard Preform

      1.4.1.2 Purpose-made Preform

      1.4.2 Bottle Design for a Dependable Process

      1.5 Verification of the 3D Design Through Finite-element Simulation

      1.5.1 What is FEM?

      1.5.2 What FEM Can Do

      1.5.3 What FEM Cannot Do

      1.6 Selection of the Mold Concept to Meet Customer-specific Criteria

      1.6.1 Shell Molds

      1.6.2 Hot-fill Molds

      1.7 Mold Design and Mold Manufacture

      1.7.1 Mold Design

      1.7.2 Mold Making

      1.8 Mold Trials and Examination of Sample Bottles

      1.8.1 Mold Trials on Laboratory Machines

      1.8.2 Process Finding During Mold Trials

      1.8.3 Laboratory Tests on Sample Bottles

      1.8.3.1 Verifying the Main Dimensions

      1.8.3.2 Capacity

      1.8.3.3 Top Load

      1.8.3.4 Burst Pressure (or Internal Pressure) Tests

      1.8.3.5 Stress Cracking Resistance

      1.8.3.6 Fillability

      1.8.3.7 Crystallinity

      1.8.3.8 Drop Test

      1.8.3.9 Barrier

      1.8.3.9.1 Barrier Against Oxygen

      1.8.3.9.2 Barrier Against Loss of CO2

      1.8.3.10 Segment Weight Distribution

      1.1 From the First Idea to the Finished Bottle

      Think Process – Not Product

      1.1.1 Development Over the Past 25–30 Years

      The market for PET bottles has seen a dramatic growth over the past 25 years. According to figures of DeWitt & Company Incorporated, worldwide PET consumption for bottle production was only 970,000 tons in 1988 and has increased to a staggering 13,954,000 tons that was estimated for 2011. With this growth, the market and economic conditions affecting bottle production have also changed dramatically.

      Although driving down costs was a central theme in product development in the 1980s, that focus has shifted to innovation. It is no longer enough to keep costs down and shorten time to market. Today, the ability to innovate has become vital.

      Furthermore, the processes within product development have changed significantly, in particular, in countries with higher price levels. What started as a serial development, i.e., the sequential processing of tasks, became parallel or concurrent processing of individual steps in the 1990s, and is now characterized by the utilization of a company’s total resources for a single project, sometimes even on a global scale.

      With regard to organization, the 1980s were dominated by departmental thinking. The 1990s saw the introduction of project groups that have since become highly flexible teams as a result of the ever-increasing requirements of product development. For each project, the right people are brought together from the available resources to achieve the best results and keep the time to market as short as possible. Ideally (and in some large companies this has already become a reality) the employees no longer have their own desks but rolling workstations, which can be moved together for flexible project work.

      The big challenge today lies in making the technological knowledge – which in most cases is still locked up in the brains of the more experienced staff – available to the entire company and securing its availability to the company for the future. State-of-the-art CAD systems in conjunction with databases now permit such an advanced knowledge management.

      Figure 1.1 Development of know-how: Since the development of the first digital drawing the industry has evolved to an ever more sophisticated design process.

      (Picture courtesy of Krones AG).

      The figure above illustrates how documentation and use of the accumulated knowledge developed over time. About 30 years ago, the first digital 2D drawings still left a great deal of scope for interpretation, especially with respect to design elements that were complex and difficult, or even impossible, to describe in geometrical terms. The 1990s saw the introduction of 3D systems that were able to display free-form surfaces and design elements of sophisticated containers. This kind of visualization was still somewhat feature oriented, but around the turn of the millennium, larger companies started using digital processes. Unlike mere mold makers, such companies – in a manner similar to machinery and systems suppliers that offer a comprehensive mold service – have adopted a process approach, which also means that questions of transport or filling are already addressed during the development phase. This comprehensive approach can best be described by the maxim Think process – not product. Today, rule-based computer systems and software packages are used, which make it possible to examine, verify, and benchmark the required container at a very early stage. For example, modification of the shoulder part of a bottle can be analyzed and evaluated in different variants to establish the best solution as a

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