OMV Machinery presents new thermoforming machine for yogurt container

During the NPE 2009 fair in Chicago last June, OMV Machinery has exhibited the new thermoforming machine F33 in production with a 27 cavities forming and trimming tool for a yogurt container with diameter 75 mm running at 40 cycles per minutes.

The F33 is a new medium-capacity thermoforming machine with forming size 33x10 inches, capable to install multi-rows tools.

The F33 is a fully automatic, electro mechanically driven thermoformer with in-mould trim, which nullifies shrinkage effects on trim accuracy. Flexibility is the key word for this machine that has been designed to process al types of thermoplastic and coextruded materials, and that can also thermoform independent of type and shape of products.

F33 special features: Effective and precise stacking robot for multi-rows moulds that is an OMV’s patent; Motorized plug assist; Platen movement performed by a double toggle, driven by servomotor; Performance/Price ratio very compatible; IML version available; Standard delivery time: 5 months; Compression rim-rolling for cups as option.

Through a simple change of software, the new F33 Thermoformer can adopt, besides the classic punchand-die moulds for PP, also specific moulds for PET containers ( tray, clam-shells, lunch-boxes etc ), using the “steel-rule cutting” technique. Such F33 utmost flexibility allows the thermoformer to comply with all possible market demand, without any machine modification.