350 billions units: this should bet he quantity of PET containers produced this year, according to Euromonitor, a London based company specialised in market researches. Out of these containers, many are utilized in the beverage industry, whereas PET confirms to bet he most used material in the world.
Side-by-side to the constant increase of the PET bottle utilisation, the importance of the factor of efficiency and profitability in the production of PET containers grows-up as well: this requirement is fully satisfied by the manufacturers of filling and packing machinery, which offers technologically advanced solutions allowing to save space and costs.
Among its features, it is a quite light material (40 grams approx per a 1.5L bottle), unbreakable and 100% recyclable.
For instance, the amount of companies utilizing bottles for cosmetics in recycled PET are in constant growth. In fact, the new technologies ensure the same mechanical properties of the raw PET and a similar brightness, without giving up to capturing packaging thanks to a wide possibilities of decorative subjects.

Manufacturing fillers dedicated to the chemical/cosmetic market means, first of all, understanding the requirements of the end-users. Nowadays Customers require flexible machines: this requirement is felt by both the big and the small users, generated by the universal reduction of the lots and by the simultaneous product differentiation.

In a previous post  we already argued about the production of mixed cases.

Another aspect, responding to the demand of flexibility, refers to the quicker and more efficacious wash-up process, achieved thanks to an extreme simplification of the relevant parts of the project.

Today it is possible to fill, through the same machine, shampoos with different fragrances, hair conditioners, hair-comb creams, without any risk of contamination by product residuals.

As a matter of fact, in the Fillers produced by Ronchi the wash-up of the parts in direct contact with the product is achieved by a simple flow of the washing solution, that can be recycled by means of the customized CIP system. After the wash-up operation, the parts in contact with the product can be sterilized with disinfectant solution or with steam up to 130°C. (S.I.P.).

Moreover, the lack of a reservoir dramatically reduces the quantity of detergent (max 15 liters for the filler), thus allowing a remarkable saving if we consider the high costs bound to the disposal of washing solutions.

Roll-on deodorant was invented at the end of years 1940 in the United States.

The intuition came to Helen Barnett Diserens while observing an invention that at those times was revolutionizing the handwriting: the ballpoint pen

Ink flew perfectly dosed while rolling on a ball. So she thought: why not using the same mechanisms in the cosmetics?

And it is how the roll-on came to light, a system that, from that moment on, has become one of the most utilized applicators worldwide.

In pocket version, ergonomic shapes, dosing practicality, the roll-on is a quite committing challenge for the packaging conditioning companies, as it requires more and more sophisticated filling and capping solutions.

The incomparable experience in the application of the filling technology by means of flow-meters introduced by Ronchi in the early nineties has enhanced the reputation of the filling lines manufactured by the Italian company to be the main reference in the forefront of  the weight and volumetric filling lines available on the worldwide marketplace. 

More than 330 flow-meter fillers installed all over the world are the evidence of Ronchi’s constant commitment and investment in research and development, which translates into  the engineering of such products and processes to meet the most severe specifications and satisfy the most peculiar applications, thus responding to whichever requirement of the chemical, cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical industries.

The application of flow-meters to the filling lines, to be either of the magnetic inductive type for the volumetric measuring, or of the mass type for weight measuring, assures the utmost dosing accuracy, in the order of 0,2%. Moreover, being instruments with no moving part, no maintenance is consequently requested. (more…)