W. Amsler sold PET SBM machine from booth at NPE

Chicago, IL—Blowmolding machinery supplier W. Amsler (Richmond Hill, ON) brought two machines to NPE2009 for the first time in its history, and before noon on the first day of the show it finalized a sale price for one of the systems to a customer it had been in negotiations with. Custom blowmolder Dahl-Tech (Stillwater, MN) will take delivery of the L-25 stretch blowmolding (SBM) line directly from McCormick Place, bringing its stable of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) SBM machines to three. The lines join 12 Uniloy extrusion blowmolding units, according to Mark Dahlke, Dahl-Tech VP of manufacturing.
 
Heidi Amsler, sales and marketing manager for W. Amsler, said the L-22, and L-25 systems in its booth gave the 20-by-20-ft stand a possible throughput of more than 5000 bottles/hr. Dahlke said his company settled on a price with W. Amsler that Monday morning, after it started looking for an upgrade to its older systems that would allow it to produce wide-mouth containers. The company has a lot of business in applications like honey and juice bottles, and it’s currently having molds created for the new system.

W. Amsler’s lines offer throughputs from 1800 to 24,000 bottles/hr, with systems over 10,000 bottles using a rotary design. At the show, the company was stretch blowmolding jars that utilized a spin cutter to remove the top. —tony.deligio@cancom.com