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It is safe to say that the today!ˉs world is a fast-paced one!ait is not only in the moldmaking shop that people want to get things done quicker than ever. With a majority of the population constantly onthe go, the market for single-serving containers (plastic bottles) ofboth beverages and foods is exploding. While designing and buildingblow molds is challenging, it is a niche worth exploring.

On the molder end, production requirements for a single typepackage can reach 100, 200, or even 400 million containers peryear, so molders need the best, least complex, and the mosteconomical machinery that can handle these extreme productionrates!aalong with blow molds tha can stand the test of time andtake a beating.

According to Jeff Newman, VP of sales and marketing at Wilmington,NC-based WilmingtonMachinery!aa provider of machinery andprocesses to produce high output packaging and structural plasticparts!athis trend is a global one that is driven by many factors,including the following: school milk programs conversion from paperto plastic, new package developments targeted at the convenienceand health food markets, and changing economical factors andconsumer habits in Latin American and Asian countries.

This translates into some lucrative business on the blow moldingend. Some blow molding equipment manufacturers have respondedwith new machines designed to handle this trend, which results indesign challenges for blow moldmakers.

The  Machinery has built a rotary blow molding wheel system that blow molds small bottles in a single cavitymold and uses a proprietary method of guiding the containers from under the blow molder through the trimmer atextremely high speeds with maximum efficiency. This article will detail blow mold design/build requirements as wellas challenges and how to overcome them through the use of this new machine.