PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2012

BOTTLES 39 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 06/12 www.petpla.net PET bottles Beverages Bottless: hot stuff Italian company Sipa has announced the launch of a new 500ml hot fill PET bottle that weighs just 13.1 g. Sipa says that it has introduced the new range, named Bottless, as part of the drive to reduce the environmental impact of PET containers. The company asserts that neither functionality nor aes- thetic appeal have been compromised in the new design. The bottles are offered with different neck finish weights, according to customer requirements. A 28mm collar weighs 3.8 g, while the 33 and 38mm versions weigh 6.5 g. They can be produced on an SFR rotary blow moulding machine at a rate of 1,800b/h per cavity. www.sipa.it On the ball Special ball-shaped bottle commemorates Ukraine’s hosting of Euro 2012 Fans and visitors to the 2012 UEFA European Football Champion- ship matches in the Ukraine were able to buy special ball-shaped Morshinka mineral water bottles from IDS Ukraine, as souvenirs of the four- yearly inter-nation competition. IDS Group Ukraine is part of IDS Borjomi International, one of the three larg- est producers of mineral water across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Baltic countries. It is a Ukraine mineral water producer; its Morshinska brand natural water is produced at the company’s Oskar plant in the west of the country, and sold in bottles made on Sipa equipment. Sipa has been doing business with IDS Group Ukraine since 2005, when it supplied the company with two lines for production of large bottles. One is in the Oskar plant, the other is in the Mirgrodskaya plant in the health resort of Mirgorod, in central Ukraine. IDS Group Ukraine designed a limited- edition 2.5l water bottle to commemo- rate Ukraine’s biggest-ever sporting event. The bottles are made on a Sipa three-cavity SFL linear blow mould- ing unit and filled on a Sipa filling line. The preform was designed by a third party and Sipa provided analysis on optimum parameters for the reheat- stretch-blow moulding sequence. It also collaborated on critical fine-tuning of the bottle’s design; the container’s volume is close to the upper limit of the blow-moulding machine used in production. Sipa also worked to ensure that labels could be applied correctly onto the bottle, which required minor modifications to the panels of the bottle to provide a suitable surface. www.sipa.it sensitive BEVERAGES