With
a total production of about 4,500 million bottles per year,
Western Container Corporation (WCC), headquartered in Midland,
Texas, is one of the biggest converters for Coca-Cola in the
United States. Three additional BLOMAX 24 Series III will now
expand WCC's capacities even further.
The Coca-Cola bottle producer
Western Container Corporation recently ordered three further
BLOMAX 24 Series III for its Big Spring plant in Texas, which will
increase its production capacity on BLOMAX machines to 180
cavities. Very satisfied with the first Corpoplast machine bought
in 1998 - especially because of the lower cost of production of
the bottles - Western Container had already placed several
subsequent orders, among others for a high-performance machine for
smaller bottles (BLOMAX 16 D) and a BLOMAX 20 Series III.
At the K'2004, the Texan converter
then bought one of the first BLOMAX 24 Series III, which was also
the 1000th BLOMAX machine to be sold. The SIG Corpoplast service
engineers boosted the output of this machine to 1,800 bph per
station for a 20 oz (= 591 ml) bottle and Western Container has
now ordered three additional BLOMAX 24 Series III with this
performance.
In addition to the superior energy
efficiency and the high machine availability, it was mainly the
excellent service provided by SIG Corpoplast that contributed to
this latest decision by Western Container. WCC is particularly
enthusiastic about the excellent service from the local SIG team
in nearby Plano, Texas.
As an innovative company, Western
Container likes to tread new paths and therefore very much
appreciates the openness of SIG Corpoplast to new ideas and the
professionalism of their technical implementation. For example,
SIG Corpoplast incorporated an online monitoring system into the
machines for WCC which permits monitoring the bottle quality with
camera measuring heads. All blow moulds have been equipped in such
a way that they can be used on the BLOMAX machines as well as on
machines of other manufacturers.
The business concept of a converter
such as Big Spring can only stand the test of time when the
efficiency of the entire line is optimised. With this in mind, the
BLOMAX machines of the Series III are designed to create optimum
conditions for downstream equipment such as high-performance
palletisers to meet this objective.
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