Extrusion blow moulding is a challenging and complex process. Having a full understanding of how and why it works allows your business to make better packaging decisions that will make your new products more successful and to refine existing products to increase their performance and sales potential.
This is why the Australian Institute of Packaging’s Extrusion Blow Moulding half-day training course is an AIP regular. Bookings to attend the next one in Brisbane on May 28 with course presenter, Stephen Barter, may be made now.
Should you attend? If you are a packaging technologist or designer at any level, a marketing executive wanting to understand design options, a project manager wishing to start or refine packaging projects, a process or technical manager, or anyone that requires rigid packaging, yes – this course will benefit you greatly.
The extrusion blow moulding process is capable of delivering a wide range of plastic bottles and hollow plastic parts to suit almost any rigid packaging and industrial application.
There is a vast array of extrusion blow moulding techniques, shapes, resins and additives, and they can solve many branding and manufacturing challenges. Making the wrong choice in bottle shape and style can prove to be an expensive error. Plastic bottles are an added cost to the marketing process - traditionally termed a ‘grudge purchase’. The course will discuss how to make it a valuable part of the consumer purchase, by improving functionality and reducing the bottle cost.
The course will cover:
1. Extrusion blow moulding process overview and the associated components.
2. New bottle introduction into manufacturing: the steps required to ensure project success from design to the shelf.
3. How far can we push designs to meet the demands of marketing concepts?
4. How to avoid packaging project failures.
5. Choosing the right bottle type and material grade.
6. Cost reduction opportunities through better design and testing the true capability of bottles.
7. Improving the performance of existing bottles and how to reduce overall costs.
8. Opportunities to enhance the consumer experience.
Stephen Barter MAIP has been building his expertise since he entered the rigid plastics industry in 1986 as a toolmaker. He moved into extrusion blow mould processing on graduation and has made this field his focus since then. He has been a production technician, production manager, sales executive, plant manager and technical manager. This knowledge has directed his attention to where value can be added through processes in extrusion blow moulding plants and how this can flow on to the filling processes.
Stephen Barter, AIP Extrusion Blow Moulding course leader
