Collapsible Core Technology Saves Time, Maintenance and Money

摘要

Levent Uzkan - President of Flavor Shakes (Dallas, TX) - a manufacturer of containers that also provides food packaging services - needed a more efficient way to mold the caps to the jars the company produces, so he turned to collapsible core technology from Romeoville, IL-based Collapsible Core, Inc. Doing so has not only reduced cycle times and maintenance, it has also saved the company thousands of dollars. Flavor Shakes' containers are filled with sugar sprinkles as well as spices - and shipped to places such as Disney World, grocery store chain Aldi's and food company World Market. Uzkan outsources his molds, and runs them on his own presses - nine injection molding machines ranging from 15 to 220 tons. Uzkan wanted a better method to produce the caps to his containers, as the screwing/unscrewing design often extended cycle time. An unscrewing tool has a rack mechanism that cycles between six seconds for a single thread to 30 seconds for eight threads, whereas a collapsible core mold cycles similar to a stripper mold by opening and closing two to three seconds to eject the part. He began to work with Garry Zydron, president of Collapsible Core, Inc. and together they developed a prototype using collapsible core technology.