PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2010

PET bottles 34 PET planet insider Vol. 11 No. 07+08/10 www.petpla.net New energy drink from Thai Beverage The new product called Power Plus will compete with other energy drinks already famous in Asia and around the world, such as RedBull, M-Max by Osotspa and Gatorade. Its producer, Thai Bev- erage Plc, has already made major investments to promote the product on the market and is certain to make Power Plus the number two selling sports drink in SEA by 2012. The 325ml hot fill bottle was designed in coopera- tion with Sipa’s Hanghzhou, China (Sipa Machinery Hangzhou) branch. Sipa manufactured the test mould and blowing moulds for the SFL linear blowmoulders installed at a Thai converter, a partner of Thai Bev that manufactures the containers. www.sipa.com Vitaperle in a clear bottle Under the brand name “Vitaperle” the Austrian private mineral spring Gruber of Brix- legg is selling 1.5l of fruit-fla- voured soft drinks in variously shaped PET bottles. The “no label” look labels help the packs to stand out at the point of sale. Screw caps, which are coloured to correspond to the fruit flavour in the bottle, have a tear-off tamper band and nicely finish off the packs. Tinto Verano in PET Tinto de Verano is a red wine and lem- onade mix being marketed by the Span- ish beverage producer Sandevid in a slim PET bottle. The 0.5l packs have a relatively large wrap-around foil label and a printed, colour-coordinated screw cap with tear-off tamper evidence. www.sandevid.com O 2 with a rotating cap Bionic Vertriebs GmbH, a company based in Linz, Austria, are offering their O 2 soft drinks in a 0.5l PET bottle with an innovative twist-lever cap. The locking lever is very simple to twist though 90° to the “open”, or drinking, position and back again to reseal the bottle. The way that the cap works is clearly explained on the wrap-around foil label. If the whole cap is unscrewed the drink can be poured out of the wide neck opening. A clear snap-on cover protects the actuating lever during transport and distribution. www.o2alive.com New sizes for Tri Top “Tri Top“, the branded soft drink concentrate by Drink Star of Rosenheim, germany, are sold in a new 600ml PET bottle from the middle of 2010. In the lower part of the slim, easy-to- grip bottles there are cleanly legible, embossed brand logos, whilst around the neck area an adhesive foil label carries the required product and commercial data. The bottle is sealed under- neath the screw cap (which also acts as a dispensing measure) by a aluminium composition foil. “Rotbäckchen” in a PET bottle The company Hans Rabenhorst of Unkel am Rhein, Germany, is sell- ing 330 ml packs of organic spritzer with mixed fruit extracts in a handy PET bottle. The bottle is decorated with a wrap-around paper label and has clear brand embossing around the neck area. A colour-coordinated screw cap with tear-off tamper band nicely finishes off this beverage pack. Rotbäckchen is a long-established traditional brand in Germany and means “rosy cheeks”. www.rotbaeckchen.de