PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2011

BOTTLE MAKING 35 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 10/11 www.petpla.net The latest bottling design choices include the FreeShape bottle, the Cluster bottle and the Daily dose package, all offering maximum levels of flexibility and creativity. A bottle tree The Cluster bottle bundles a number of short-neck bottles using green neck rings that are attached to a main branch resembling fruit hanging on a tree. The customers in the shop simply “pick” the bot- tles they wish to buy. Cluster bottles are suitable for a range of different products, from water and flavoured water to sensitive beverages includ- ing juices and dairy. The bottles can be light-weight and can be made of recycled material and/or biosourced material. Because of their attractive design, they lend themselves to pos- sible reuse at home as a second-life package. The daily dose of fruit DailyDose is a multipack solution directed at families and consumers who wish to consume small amounts of fruit doses or yoghurt drinks on a regular basis. Six bottles are sleeved individually and linked with one unique label in a handy set. For packaging companies, they enable flexible and cost-effective production as one label, or, alternatively, one sleeve is used for a pack of six bottles. The daily dose is one pack for a family with one dose a day of healthy product. The DailyDose package again is a flexible concept offering one design for different prod- ucts. It is suitable for on-the-go con- sumption as the small bottles fit into the smallest of handbags. Liberating bottle shapes for sensitive beverages FreeShape offers the possibility of using a similar bottle design for both hot fill and aseptic filling. The secret of FreeShape lies in its specific pat- ented bottle base profile, which acts like a membrane or piston: it pulls up and falls depending on the contained product’s volume variations. This solu- tion responds to the packaging needs of sensitive products such as juices or teas filled at temperatures between 85 and and 92°C, which lead to bottle swelling during hot fill and then shrink- age when the liquid is cooled. www.sidel.com Flexible PET packaging solutions All shapes and sizes New market trends and consumers’ expectations require constant adaptations of bottle designs and shapes. Beverage producers not only pose high demands on design and mar- ketability of their packaging products, but also require top quality and safety standards. In addition, bottlers and converters attach high importance to sustainable production pro- cesses at low cost and high profitability. Sidel offers new packaging solutions that help its customers achieve variety in designs while fulfilling all additional market demands.