The key aspect of the offer, which SACMI makes available to customers through the new SACMI Beverage Packaging Centre – which in turn makes use of the skills of the Group's Beverage and Rigid Packaging Laboratories – was identifying a specific ‘design key’ to create lighter bottle designs while maintaining both a high aesthetics and performance characteristics.
The latter is an integrated approach that includes the configuration of the neck and cap, and the structure of the bottle itself once it has been blown, right up to the design of the moulds, which is also carried out using advanced simulation techniques such as finite element analysis (FEM analysis). In all cases, the result is not limited to a paper copy; it is prototyped and industrially tested either using test benches and simulators or using anthropomorphic robots that simulate the behaviour of the actual machine.
