Complete plants are a hallmark of SACMI in Nigeria, with numerous projects already completed or underway with some of the country’s largest players. With SACMI, they can count on a single partner and rapid – and cost-effective – adoption of new market standards focused on sustainable packaging.
SACMI’s comprehensive facility engineering skills are in high demand in Nigeria, a growing country where major local and international beverage brand owners operate. Hence SACMI’s return as a key exhibitor at the 2023 edition of ProPak West Africa (September 12-14, 2023, Landmark Centre, Lagos, Nigeria), where it intends to show current and potential customers the advantages of transitioning to the most popular new standards in the market.
Two giant leaps in quality thanks to a single partner
SACMI offers Nigerian manufacturers great opportunities by enabling them to move towards the adoption of more sustainable standards and lighter, better performing closures/packaging, while allowing them to innovate on the product and design fronts.
In this region of Africa, in fact, numerous customers have already turned to SACMI for complete solutions that provide them with this “double leap” in quality. One of SACMI’s strengths is its in-depth knowledge of the development of closures and preforms, the corresponding technologies and their integration into complete bottling lines.
New standards, new advantages
One of the most recent developments in the global rigid packaging industry concerns the transition to new standards for neck caps that also – and above all – guarantee manufacturers savings in raw materials without sacrificing the same performance. Among them are the 26/22 mm for water and CSD and the 25/22 mm for water, in which SACMI offers the widest range of plugs on the market.
For example, following the huge success of its lightweight solutions for CSD in Nigeria, SACMI has introduced an ultra-lightweight solution for water, consisting of a bottle+cap weighing 1 g and 0.8 g respectively. In addition to the opportunities offered by the latest standards, SACMI creates very specific solutions to lighten some of the most commonly used collars (e.g. the traditional PCO 1881) and achieve significant raw material savings.
SACMI also offers a complete consulting service to ensure that the solution is adapted to the customer’s production and market needs. Whatever the neck-cap combination, SACMI can recommend a solution that is the lightest available and, at the same time, compatible with the end-users’ consumption habits and preferences: all thanks to SACMI’s in-depth knowledge of the market and SACMI’s extensive network of dedicated manufacturing and service facilities around the world.
Technology and integration with bottling lines
In Nigeria, SACMI’s CCM (continuous compression molding) lines – the benchmark in closure manufacturing – are increasingly being combined with SACMI’s IPS preform presses; these are available in an ever-expanding range that includes the increasingly popular IPS 400 Cool+ and IPS 300. In this way, producers can take advantage of all available opportunities related to the development of new products, with all the guarantees of having SACMI as a unique partner.
But that’s not all: the SACMI Beverage range of complete bottling lines – ranging from stretch blow molding to filling, labeling and capping of containers – has demonstrated to local bottlers the advantages of SACMI’s turnkey solutions, which merge capping and preform lines into the complete plant. Again, SACMI offers several unique solutions, such as the double cavity stretch blow molding technology, which can double productivity in medium-small formats, and the new fully electronic cap positioning system FEC (full electronic capper).
Alongside the SACMI Beverage range, customers can benefit from the new Packaging Center: operating in concert with the SACMI Rigid Packaging Laboratory, the Center provides full bottle and closure design consultancy, has an extensive database of certified solutions and can help customers develop innovative proposals from both a technical and aesthetic perspective.
