PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2010

BOTTLING / FILLING 31 PET planet insider Vol. 11 No. 11/10 www.petpla.net Georg Menshen GmbH & Co. KG Industriestraße 26 | 57413 Finnentrop Fon +49 2721 518113 | Fax +49 2721 518115 contact@menshen.com | www.menshen.com • no measuring out of dosage volume necessary • user-friendly one-hand-use • no over dosing • environmental-friendly and efficient one2dose ® , the innovative dosing system. A measured dosing system with a flip top cap. Enabling easy, exact and clean dosing with only one hand! Intelligent packaging, easy dosing. final product of this process is a Canada and USA-approved food-grade pellet. This turnkey line was supplied by Starlinger, of Austria, which was chosen because of its convincing performance during the SSP process and overall low energy consumption in converting clean r-PET flakes into pellets. These pellets are then used to produce the preforms. Lighter bottle design made of rPET resin Ice River Springs is currently in the process of lightweight- ing its existing 500ml water preforms from 9.94g to 8.67g; the intention is to have everything completed by spring of 2011. The challenge with lightweighting is that the processing window on the blow moulding machines becomes very narrow. However, the company has been able to make this work. The current closure is the Corvaglia design (see also PETplanet 7+8/2010) and weighs 0.97g. Ice River Spring’s goal is to have a cap and bottle under 10g combined weight. These 100% rPET bottles will have small labels made of recycled paper and cases will be produced without cardboard to further minimize packaging. www.iceriversprings.com RPET plant at Ice River Spings The Starlinger SSP line is located in one of Ice River Springs bottling plants