Its branding efforts certainly caught the attention of a global company with a legendary brand name, a company that wishes to remain anonymous. Stull designed and developed a patent-pending cap for its microwaveable soups.

“The company came to us for a cost-effective solution to lock the lid onto the container, while maintaining consumer convenience,” Jason Stull explains. “We came up with the current, proprietary design that improves the package’s functionality and its value to the consumer.”

The cell mentioned earlier was designed to produce the new microwaveable soup caps. Jason says the clamp decompression capabilities of the Milacron Powerline presses improve manufacturing efficiencies.

Like most all-electrics, Powerlines can unlock their clamps to “mold touch” at the end of the cooling cycle and overlap most or all of the mold breakaway time during clamp open. However, what sets Powerlines apart is that their clamp decompression can be customized by molders, saving precious cycle seconds with no impact on part quality, Milacron sources say.

Molded lids are ejected onto a turntable where a photo eye gauging part height detects any that are upside-down and triggers an air blast to blow them right-side up, thereby maintaining a fixed distance between the caps and easing further automated handling.