Sidel launches PET aerosol container
The “Pressure Safe” PET aerosol container design shall give home and personal care brands the opportunity to offer more environmentally sustainable dispensing spray packaging. The PET product-packaging solution is approved for the traditional PET recycling stream and shall serve as an alternative to traditional metal aerosol container for use with products such as perfumes and deodorants.
Pressure Safe shall maintain the highest standards of product safety, making PET containers as safe as metal aerosol containers. The design’s name refers to the PET dispensing spray’s resistance to pressure in order to maintain a safe structure, protect against leakages, breakages and roll-out during transportation and storage.
Sidel expects it to transform the way that companies specialising in home and personal care products can respond to high consumer expectations, while addressing operational challenges and withstanding extreme supply chain conditions. The container base design shall offer maximum packaging performance by combining an optimised preform design and viscosity level with a specific container’s vault shape. This ensures that the final product is fully compliant with FEA and PARG aerosol regulations and material specifications. A specific active mould base solution, Sidel’s Base Over Stroke System, provides the on-site production-line blower configuration to produce the desired aerosol spray design. The company also offers customers laboratory bench tests to qualify the package’s performance.
Intended for use with products such as perfumes and deodorants, PressureSAFE™ will offer home and personal care brands a more competitive choice of pressurised container than the traditional metal aerosol container. This will enable these brands to choose PressureSAFE™ so that they can demonstrate their carbon-saving credentials, while responding to sustainability demands of consumers.
The nature of the PET aerosol container provides companies with greater design opportunities, compared to traditional metal packaging. The essence of the technology is its container base design that incorporates brand-specific patented structures. It can be customised with different body designs, including belt and texturing options and a conical or round shoulder. PET transparency also offers consumers direct visibility of the product and enhanced marketing with decorative options such as a partial or full body sleeve.
