Design and fabrication of an industrial semi-automatic label Shrinking Machine for polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles

• Main Authors: Muralindran Mariappan, Tan, Jian Hong, Jong, Chia Sing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Journal of Innovative Science Engineering and Technology (IJISET) 2015
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/15185/1/Design_and_Fabrication_of_an_Industrial_Semi.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/15185/; http://ijiset.com/vol2/v2s11/IJISET_V2_I11_87.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

A company that produce bottled drinking water had been facing issues with manual label shrinking that involve high temperature water and steam. Thus, this project focus on the design of a semi-automatic label shrinking machine to shrink the PVC 40-Micron label around the specially shaped PET bottles...