Heat Set Technology: Process, Bottles, Material

This course gives an overview of all components involved in making heat-set bottles for the hot-filling process. Topics include:

- Machines used

- Type of products to be filled

- The hot-fill process

- Inside the bottle during and after hot-filling

- Demands on the bottle

- Bottle design features

- Vacuum panels and the drive to eliminate them
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- Heat-set process

- Shrinkage control

- Molds for the heat-set process

-Base design

- Materials
-    Key parameters
-     Effect of blow mold temperature
-     Effect of preform temperature

- Effect of storage conditions

- Economics

- Check list

Who should attend?

Everybody considering entering the rapidly growing market of hot-fill bottles.