New Hot Stamp machine added to Hanes Erie complement of Decorating equipment.
To fill the gap of a high speed hot stamp machine for all plastic bottle shapes, Hanes Erie has recently installed a machine purchased from OMSO North America. This machine is completely controlled by a computer which instructs multiple servo motors to perform the hot stamp process onto plastic bottles. The bottles can be any shape that will fit the parameters of the machine. Flats, ovals, rounds, squares, tapers and combinations of all of these can be handled by this new technology developed by Omso.
Programming the bottle into the computer is performed by a Laser beam teaching mode. Once this step is complete, the bottle parameters are stored in the computer memory for future recall. Setting up to hot stamp a new bottle shape takes typically about two hours.
Hot stamp speeds are up to 60 bottles per minute depending upon the shape and complexity of the printing.
Typical methods of hot stamping on plastic blow molded bottles are by the vertical press system and the bottles must be enclosed in an upper and lower shroud and inflated with air during the stamping process. The tooling for this process is very expensive and the rate of production is relatively slow. For large volume jobs multiple setups are required to be able to produce orders in a timely fashion.
With the new OMSO machine, Hanes can offer the customer far less expensive tooling, faster production rates and, very important, lower prices for the highly decorative hot stamp process on blow molded bottles. This is a win for the customer… and pleasing the customer is what Hanes Erie strives to do.
Thomas A. Hanes
PRESIDENT
Hanes Erie, Inc