Driving sustainability without compromising performance
Husky features 200 cavity HyPET 6e, PET caps and other new solutions
Husky Technologies was showcasing its latest breakthroughs in sustainable beverage packaging production at drinktec, amongst them the global debut of the HyPET 6e 200 cavity platform, the HyCAP SecuRE PET closure technology and the global monitoring solution Advantage+Enterprise.
Bradley Selleck, Husky’s CEO, told visitors to the company’s stand at drinktec 2025 that the company firmly believes that sustainability should never mean compromise. “The industry has moved beyond the old trade-offs between recyclability, performance, quality, or speed. PET is uniquely positioned as the most circular packaging material and at drinktec 2025, we’re proud to showcase how Husky is enabling beverage packaging producers to build a truly circular future while continuing to grow their businesses.”
Husky’s stand at drinktec hosted four product launches, led by the world premiere of the company’s next-generation HyPET 6e platform. It features a 200 cavity system and new, advanced vacuum drying technology that Husky says advances rPET processing with superior energy efficiency, precise control, material protection, and higher uptime. The platform enables producers to process higher levels of rPET while maintaining consistent part quality and lowering overall part costs, the company claims.
Another version of the system, launched at the same time, was HyPET NX6, which is described as a ‘next generation mid-volume PET system’. It is designed to deliver high production efficiency and preform quality, at an affordable entry point.
Closure forming solution
The third global launch was presented by Michael White, Director Business Development – Closures. He focused on the HyCAP SecuRE+, a novel closure forming technology that enables both bottles and closures to be made entirely of PET, thus creating a fully circular, mono-material package. The technology features a new tamper-evident design that helps to boost consumer security and improved capping performance, which contributes to greater line efficiency. It is compatible with industry-standard CETIE neck finishes and with complex closure geometries, such as tethered caps. It offers lightweighting opportunities at the dispensing system level, leading to cost savings and improved sustainability.
Husky says that the combination of its established advanced closure development expertise and HyCAP SecuRE+ enables producers to align with global circular economy goals while delivering high levels of package performance. “With HyPET 6e, producers can achieve unparalleled scale and efficiency while processing higher levels of rPET with confidence and consistency. SecuRE+ complements this by enabling a true complete mono-material PET package, bottle and closure together, delivering new levels of consumer security and recyclability,” said Robert Domodossola, Husky’s President of Systems and Tooling.
Global monitoring platform
Drinktec 2025 also saw the official launch of Advantage+Enterprise, a new global monitoring solution that builds on the company’s proven Advantage+Elite platform, which has been deployed in more than 1,500 customer contracts worldwide since its introduction in 2021. Husky says that customers connecting entire factories to Advantage+Elite realise even steeper gains, according to data collected during operations. These insights directly informed the development of Advantage+Enterprise, which expands monitoring to the enterprise level, across single factories or multi-site networks and leads to improved decision-making for labour allocation, rPET integration and predictive maintenance. It also offers improved resilience and efficiency, thus helping producers to better manage variability and to reduce waste.
Husky says that Advantage+ Enterprise was developed in response to market needs for visibility beyond single system-level predictive monitoring and proactive alerts. “Our customers need visibility across entire plants and even multi-factory, multi-country networks,” said Tony Black, Husky’s President of Service. “Advantage+Enterprise delivers exactly that, providing manufacturers with powerful enterprise-wide insights through targeted dashboards designed for operations, maintenance, and executive teams.”
The objective is to help customers to drive efficiency, quality, performance, and resilience in personnel management, integration of rPET, improving OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) and enabling producers “to make faster, smarter decisions that protect both their bottom line and the planet”.