Injection Blow Moulding

(IBM)
Injection Blow Moulding
 Injection Blow Moulding
• Process
The heart of the injection Blow moulding
process is a triangular rotary table.
 Injection Blow Moulding
• Process
Core rods mounted on the face of the table
form the inside of the hot parison (or
preform) that is later blown into the
finished container.
Core Rods
Injection Blow Moulding
 Station 1
This is the preform mould.
Here, molten material is injected under
low pressure into the mould cavity, where
it forms a parison around the core rod.
 Station 1
• At this stage, the neck section is injection
moulded to close tolerances.
• After suitable conditioning, the moulds
open and the parison is transferred on the
core rod to station 2.
 Station 2
• This is where the blow takes place.
• The cavity of the mould defines the shape
and finish of the container.
• The parison is blown with air fed internally
through the core rod.
 Station 2
• As the blown plastic contacts the cold blow
mould, the final moulding is produced.
• The mould opens and the finished bottle is
transferred on the core rod to Station 3
 Station 3
• Here, the bottle is stripped from the core rod
for packing or filling.
Injection Blow Moulding
Injection Blow Moulding
Injection Blow Moulding
 Flutes

Label
Space

Re-entrant curve
Injection Blow Moulding
 Injection Blow Moulding
• Comparison Between IBM & EBM
With IBM it is ,
 possible to produce more bottles per cycle.
 possible to produce items with less scraps
(deflashing, trimming, re-granulation and re-
mixing are not required.)
 possible to produce products at a constant
weight and with injection moulding
tolerances.
Stretch Blow moulding
 Stretch blow molding
• Stretch blow molding is best known for
producing PET bottles commonly used for
water, juice and a variety of other products.
 Stretch blow molding
• One of the major advantages of stretch
blow molding is the ability to stretch the
preform in both the hoop direction and the
axial direction.
 Stretch blow molding
This biaxial stretching of material increases
the
• tensile strength
• barrier properties
• drop impact
• clarity
&
• top load in the container.
 Stretch blow molding
• With these increases it is usually possible
to reduce the overall weight in a container
by 10 to 15 percent less then when
producing a container in another way.
Stretch blow molding
 Stretch blow molding
(1) injection molding of the parison
(2) Stretching
(3) blowing.
 Question?

The gray The white Material

100 kg 100 kg PVC

50 kg 30 kg CaCO3
3250 kg 3 kg Stabilizer/lead
250 g 250 g Plasticizer/DOP
100 g 100 g Stearic acid
250 g 450 g Titanium dioxide (TiO2 )
50 g - Black Carbon