Integrated PET Processing: Technological Advancements and
Solutions Innovation

PET bottle production encompasses a series of processes that starts from the delivery of the raw resin to the production plant and continues through storage, conveying, distribution, blending, drying, injection moulding and cooling. A further process may either be preform storage or bottle stretch-blow.

The evolution of preform production methodologies and technologies has pushed processing performance to the limit, to the point that any of all those processes has reached maximum physical efficiency.

Process control, as well, has evolved at the same high pace, so to allow the very high level of outputs and quality achievable today.

The very latest development trends, that more and more characterise our industry, aim at further enhancing constancy of productivity, efficiency of operation and quality of the product. In such respect Piovan has launched a new technology development program, that started in the late 2012 and was concluded in the first half of 2015. The resulting new innovations in PET processing technology will be lectured at GEPET 2016 and will focus on the auto-adaptability feature for the processes of drying and cooling, that Piovan first introduced to the industry in 2009. Piovan holds a patent for “High efficiency system for dehumidifying and/or drying plastic materials”, obtained in 2013, in recognition of the extensive research and results in process consistency and optimization.