Sacmi partners Mitaca for drinks pods

A Sacmi compression moulding machine

Italy-based Mitaca has, together with fellow Italian company Sacmi Group which makes equipment for plastics packaging, ceramics and food processing, worked on an investment project for the manufacture of high quality drinks pods.

This has resulted in Mitaca installing two Sacmi CCM compression presses and technology which, the companies state, will produce the best quality pods in the shortest time. The system allows control over every pod being manufactured and the technology sees plastic extrusion at lower fluidity indexes and at lower temperatures.

The machinery has led Mitaca to be able to gain a high productivity rate of around 600 pieces per minute.

It has also enabled the company to create lighter pods, weighing 2.15 grams. The Sacmi machine ensures improved thickness control of the pod bottom, allowing maximum repeatability over time and guaranteeing the hermetic seal of every single pod, states Sacami.

The Sacmi Group generated sales of €1.35bn in 2015.