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PET preform inspection

For high PET container quality.

Faulty preforms are immediately rejected and not fed to the blow-molding system.
Faulty preforms are immediately rejected and not fed to the blow-molding system.

Most bottling plants handling PET containers blow-mold the bottles themselves from outsourced preforms. For the quality of the blowmolded bottles the quality of the preforms is inevitably crucial. Krones has accordingly developed an inspection unit which checks the PET performs either after the unscrambler or on the infeed wheel of the Contiform stretch blow-molding machine. At speeds of up to 72 preforms an hour the perform inspector monitors compliance with ovality inner diameter and quality of the sealing surface.

The IRIS technology used here photographs the raw preforms with a high resolution of 0.05 mm/ pixel using special light sources and a camera installed above the passing preforms. The camera itself detects even the tiniest of preform defects with 640 x 480 pixels and 12-bit halftone resolution.

Faulty preforms are rejected immediately and no longer fed to the blow-molding machine. The inspection unit is operated from a touch-screen secured against unauthorized access by a password system. A statistical log provides a detailed overview of the inspection results.

Fast dependable and affordable support in the event of any problems is assured by the Krones Teleservice operation.

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