Objective
Of the 19,500 injection moulding companies in Europe, around 75% are SMEs. However the packaging market for yellow fat food products, such as margarine, butter, yoghurts and pate tends to be dominated by larger, often American owned, companies using thermoforming technology to produce round or rectangular tubs with foil sealing membranes and simple 2 or 3 colour, off line ink printed, motifs around the outside. Around 90% of the market is currently serviced by this technology. The remaining 10% is split between two in-mould labelling, injection moulding systems. One system uses special purpose printed film between 80 Microns and 40 microns, as the decoration media. The other uses much cheaper 30 micron film, commonly used in high volume food packaging applications such as crisp packets and snack wrappers. Both injection moulded techniques have a price premium of around between 15% and 25%, which has prevented mass take up of the technology within its potential markets, even though there are significant product benefits offered by the injection moulded version. The industrial objective of the proposed RTD is to provide European food packaging sectors with an in-mould decorated, injection moulded packaging technology that has the following advantages over the existing thermoformed products, but at a price that is within 5% of that offered by the existing technology; - A full colour, high resolution print capability for the package exterior. - A complete decoration coverage over all five sides of the package's base. - An integrated tamper evident lid-base interface. 100% recyclability . - A 50% reduction in set up times for new motifs, reducing price penalties for shorter runs. - The potential of gas barriers to the package, through an additional laminate on the printed film. To achieve this, a number of technical objectives must be met, including: - The development of a 4 + 4 impression `stack' tooling design technology, able to inject and cool a 500g tub base within 2.5 seconds, but with a novel form of mould plate support and opening mechanisms that give sufficient freedom of access to the cavities to allow automated placement of decoration labels-films and component retrieval. - The development of an extremely high speed film placement and component retrieval technology able to operate at a 90% reliability level with a positional accuracy of 0.25mm and within an elapse time of 2.0 seconds. - The development of a high speed, high resolution vision system capable of 100% inspection of product for film placement errors. - The development of a base and lid design meeting the emerging Eurotub standard but incorporating a tamper evident closure as well as all round decor coverage.
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