Blow Molding

Plastiblow PB15ED is suited for multiple applications

April 8, 2024

The all-electric extrusion blow molder offers energy savings, repeatability and lower maintenance costs.

Plastiblow is introducing the all-electric PB15ED blow molding machine at NPE2024.

PB15ED This Plastiblow double-station all-electric extrusion blow molding machine with a 15.4-ton clamp can produce plastic bottles and hollow-body containers for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, and personal hygiene, medical, food, cleaning, chemistry and automotive goods. It is ideally suited to clean-room applications. Globeius is the exclusive U.S. distributor for Plastiblow.

What’s new? The machine, which will produce 500mm oval cosmetic bottles in HDPE in a 4+4 cavity setup at NPE. It will be equipped with a quad parison extrusion head at a 4X100mm center distance, an extruder with a 90mm screw diameter and a high-throughput barrier design, and a servo-drive parison cutting unit. An automated bottle take-out unit with servo-driven motors on two axes will pick up bottles from the deflashing station and transport them onto a conveyor for further downstream operations.

Benefits Energy savings, repeatability and maintenance cost savings, compared with hydraulic machines.

Globeius Inc., Medley, Fla., 305-889-1782, www.globeius.com, https://plastiblow.it/en/

About the Author

Bruce Geiselman | Senior Staff Reporter

Senior Staff Reporter Bruce Geiselman covers extrusion, blow molding, additive manufacturing, automation and end markets including automotive and packaging. He also writes features, including In Other Words and Problem Solved, for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. He has extensive experience in daily and magazine journalism.