Italian blowmolding machine manufacturer SMI has selected Agr International to provide pressure testing equipment for its quality management and testing programme.
The Agr PPT3000 Packaging Pressure tester will enable SMI to qualify bottles created in their design centre and ensure that they meet pressure strength and volume expansion design goals.
The PPT3000 offers high-precision pressure, volume expansion testing capabilities for PET containers with the versatility to perform a number of standard and custom test profiles. Furthermore, in addition to traditional tests, the PPT3000 can also be used to provide immediate predicted shelf-life characteristics of individual PET containers for CO2, oxygen or water loss, in a matter of 60 seconds.
SMI technical production department manager Erika Luiselli said: “We are using the PPT3000 in a number of ways – to validate bottles produced in prototype molds to ensure they meet SMI quality specifications and to test our blow molding machines during final checkout in order to certify and guarantee that the bottles produced with these systems conform with what was prototyped by our customer at the initial stage of their project. Following qualification, results from the PPT3000 tests are submitted to the customer as part of final acceptance process.
This information is very useful during the design of containers that will be produced by our integrated blow-fill systems.
“We think that the introduction of the Agr PPT3000 in our laboratories has brought considerable improvements in our daily testing activities, increased the level of accuracy and improved the time efficiency.”
“The SMI acquisition of an Agr PPT3000 has opened a new collaboration between our companies,” added Agr Europa service manager/regional sales engineer Davide Bartoli.
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