Packaging specialist focuses on quality for new production lines

1st December 2018

Dienes Packaging GmbH (www.dienespackaging.com) is investing in new production lines for the manufacture of stackable 5 – 15 litre canisters with handles at the site in Kaiserslautern. This order for several BEKUM blow moulding machines (www.bekum.de) to manufacture canisters with transparent strips sees the packaging specialist, with more than 55 years of experience in the field, further expanding the long-standing business relationship of both companies.

“In order to manufacture qualitatively high-grade packaging, while taking our requirements, such as sustainability and high production availability, into account, resource-saving technology and a reliable partner are vital. This is why we made the choice for BEKUM” explained Klaus Dienes, Managing Director of Dienes Packaging GmbH.

Thanks to the excellent order situation at Dienes Packaging, options for additional systems have also been discussed along with the BEKUM blow moulding machines that have already been ordered. Dienes Packaging is responding here early on to the growing demand for stackable 5 – 15 litre canisters with handles, and it wants to further boost its production capacities at the site in Kaiserslautern for the future.

The blow moulding machines have been ordered with continuous BEKUM extrusion heads with spiral mandrel distributors. This technology enables Dienes Packaging to cut back on the amount of material used and to reduce the changing times for material and colour. Spiral mandrel distributor extrusion heads are designed for a lengthy production period as well as uniform homogeneity of melting and temperature, and they can be used with almost all blow-mould compatible thermoplastic synthetic material. This permits Dienes to have a much larger production window, along with an increase in article quality and a reduction in article weight. A partial wall thickness controller is used for ideal parison manipulation for the canisters, that in turn enables uniform production of both lightweight and stacking canisters.

Dienes Packaging is represented in 17 countries and it supplies more than 2,000 customers around the world. On a production area of 45,000 square metres, a total of 2,000 different products are manufactured and marketed in accordance with quality management standards ISO 9001:2015.

About BEKUM 

Pioneer and Trendsetter in Blow Moulding Technology

Founded in Berlin in 1959, BEKUM Maschinenfabriken GmbH is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of extrusion blow moulding machines.

Founder Gottfried Mehnert conceived the name BEKUM as the acronym (Berliner Kunststoff Maschinen).

The company began to flourish in its founding year with the development of the world’s first neck-rim calibration. Numerous innovations and patents followed, confirming that BEKUM, with its innovative and customer-oriented machinery solutions, has always been ahead of its time – and remains so to this day.

When innovative and economical machinery solutions with high productivity for individual packaging requirements of hollow packaging are in demand, then BEKUM, with over 55 years of experience in blow-moulding technology, is the first choice worldwide.

Product Range and Applications in Food and Non-food

With future-oriented and reliable production processes and fully electric, as well as hydraulic machinery for the commercial production of blow moulded containers ranging from 5 ml to 3000 l, BEKUM offers everything for plastic packaging from one source.

Philosophy of the Company

Building and maintaining long-term relationships with market partners through future-oriented, predictable company policy determine the actions of the first and second generation of the family, represented by Michael Mehnert. This strategy ensures the jobs of dedicated and experienced staff. The preservation of traditional structures, an established network of partners and far-sighted adaptation to change form the basis for continuous development and inspiration for the company in the interest of partners, customers and employees.

Press release from Bekum