Who and how made stadium plastic seats for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia
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Folding stadium plastic seats manufactured by Kai Mei extrusion blow molding machines have already attended three FIFA World Cups as participants. In 2002 in Japan and Korea, in 2014 in Brazil and in 2018 in Russia fans of all countries felt comfortable at the stadiums thanks to the cozy "blown seats".
Quantity and Terms
The company, which received a contract for the new World Cup stadium seats production, had high requirements to the blow molding equipment. In order to manufacture more than 300,000 sets of seats for the 2018 World Cup stadiums, the company from Izhevsk, Russia, needed two Taiwanese extrusion blow molding machines Kai Mei PBI-905 and 250 days of 24-hours-a-day-job.
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| Kai Mei PBI-905 |
A specialist of a Russian company commented: "Kai Mei extrusion blow molding machine has proved to be a reliable worker. The mould design is complicated and producing seats with minimal burr (casting material) is quite a challenging task. But the machine managed it perfectly. Machine and moulds high stability and accuracy allowed us to get a product at a minimum cost. The machine is equipped with simple and clear interface resulting in less time for operators' training. Besides, long service interval helps to minimize operating costs considerably. The Kai Mei machine allowed us to produce world-class products. Our project is exclusive in Russia, since, as far as I know, blown stadium seats of such quality and structure have never been produced in our country. Our company has become a pioneer and leader in extrusion blow molding of stadium seats in Russia."
Kai Mei PBI-905 extrusion blow molding machine has a powerful hydraulic clamping system and equipped with high-quality hydraulics, pneumatics and electronics. Machine's special characteristics are first-in and first-out die head, a wide range of optional equipment and user-friendly control interface. All parameters of the machine and the production process (temperature control, pressure in the hydraulic system, timer, choice of parison) are displayed on the monitor and set by the control unit. The control interface is translated into Russian directly by Russian engineers according to generally accepted technical terms. Main technical characteristics of Kai Mei PBI-905 extrusion blow molding machine are listed below.
About the company
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Kai Mei Company is a globally recognized manufacturer, a leader in extrusion blow molding machines for plastic containers of various sizes, shapes and purposes production. The company was founded in 1977 in Taiwan. The company produces machines for the containers from 5 ml (Series PBA) to 1500 liters (Series PBI-XL) of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polycarbonate and polyethylene terephthalate.
Computer-driven control system produced by the Japanese company Mitsubishi is used for automation, to increase technological process safety and to control the main functions and parameters during operation of the blow molding machines. Other world brands also contributed to equipment components production: the extruder gearboxes were made by the Italian Zambello, the inverter by the Japanese Sanken, pneumatics FESTO (Germany), parison control from the Japanese company MOOG".
The equipment of the Taiwanese company Kai Mei is used by more than 3,500 companies in 85 countries around the world, including EU, USA, Australia and China. In Russia, the status of the official exclusive representative of Kai Mei Company is held by the Polypak group of companies (Samara, polypak.ru), which also provides warranty and post-warranty maintenance of equipment.
