PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2012

BOTTLES PET bottles 35 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 01+02/12 www.petpla.net Oil and dressings UK company King’s Fine Foods specialises in luxury products such as caviar, smoked salmon, cham- pagne, chocolates, handmade bis- cuits and hampers. It has selected M&H Plastics of Beccles, England, to manufacture PET bottles and caps for its new range of British rapeseed oil and apple balsamic dressing, which is being used by British Air- ways in-flight catering. M&H created new tooling specifically for the 12ml PET square bottle (Ref. 4172) with a 13mm screw cap. The company says that the bottle and closure is suitable for picnics, salads and lunch boxes, as well as in-flight catering. M&H has over 1,000 standard products plus a full custom moulding service for exclusive designs. It undertakes virtually all operations in-house, from concept design through toolmaking, production, art- work and decoration. www.mhplastics.com Pip-free Lemon Juice “Pip-free Lemon Juice“ is the additional name given by the Italian company B & G Srl to their no-added-sugar lemon juice extracted from fresh fruit and marketed under the “Limmi“ brand name. The trans- parent PET bottle is in a round body format and decorated with a shrink sleeve appro- priate to the product. The screw-on cap is secured both by the shrink sleeve and by a tear-off guarantee strip. www.limmi.it Lemon Lychee in PET Pfanner, the Austrian beverages manu- facturer, is launching an increasing number of new, multi-fruit drinks on the market, in some cases with exotic flavours and packed in made-to-match PET bottles. The latest example of this is the Lemon Lychee variant with added vitamins in a pale yel- lowish coloured PET bottle with a content of 1.5 litres. The bottle, with its easy-to- hold waisted shape, sports a shrink sleeve label and is sealed with a yellow plastic screw closure complete with printing and tamper-proof guarantee. www.pfanner.com Double power in PET Gedima Soft Drinks GmbH from Hück- elhoven in Germany is producing “Magic Man“, an energy drink that contains taurine as well as caffeine. By comparison to other drinks, the caffeine content is increased to 32mg per 100ml. Magic Man is bottled in a 500 ml transparent bottle made from PET with an all-round belly label made from paper. The bottle, which features diamond- shaped indentations, is sealed with a tamper-proof screw closure. Freshly harvested juice from Valensina Since December 2011 Valensina GmbH has been selling 1l of freshly harvested pressed juice in a transparent PET bottle with a screw top and sealed for freshness. The available variants are Pink Grapefruit, Valencia Orange and Moro Blood Orange. The bottle features embossed brand name lettering and a transparent all-round belly label in plas- tic. The juice, made in each case from 2.5kg of hand-picked fruit, is carefully extracted shortly after harvesting, gently pasteurised and subsequently marketed in a closed cold chain so as to ensure optimum quality. www.valensina.de