PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2015

PET bottles 44 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 06/15 www.petpla.net Beverage + Liquid Food Coca-Cola with Stevia Responding to consumer demand for a lower sugar content, preferring light products with artificial sweet- eners, Coca-Cola has developed a Coke featuring a proportion of stevia. This first appeared on the market in South America, the home of the stevia plant, and was then succes- sively introduced and marketed in the other countries, most recently in Europe / Germany. In the case of “Coca-Cola Life“, 37% of the sugar is replaced by stevia extract. In this way it has been possible to reduce the calorie content from 42 to 27 kilocalories per 100ml. In order to emphasise the natural origins of the sweetener and to make Coca-Cola “greener“, the well-known transparent PET bottle has been combined with a green paper label and a green screw closure complete with tamper-proof guarantee strip. www.coca-cola.com Punica Saft-Limo Under the name of “Punica Saft- Limo“, Pepsi-Co Deutschland GmbH is marketing three different carbon- ated Saft-Limos with a juice content of 15%. The varieties (orange and passion fruit, lemon and raspberry and red fruits) contain less sugar than traditional lemonades and are free of any preservatives. In each case 1.25l are packaged in a return- able bottle with an attractive shape made from transparent PET. In the neck area the bottle is fitted with two embossed brand logos and an all- round plastic label and closed with a screw cap incorporating a tamper- evident strip. www.punica.de Spanish mineral water in blue PET bottle Spanish beverages purveyor Aquas de Solán de Cabras is bottling its natural mineral water in a blue - tinged PET bottle with a content of 500ml. The water boasts a long tradition and it used to be available in chemists‘ shops as a medicinal water. The shape of the bottle is also remi- niscent of this time. Even today health-promoting qualities are still attributed to the water. On the front is the name of the spring and a coat of arms, while the back contains information in braille. A paper label in the vicinity of the neck and a tamper-proof, white screw closure for the bottle opening with a diameter of approx. 35mm complete the packaging. www.solandecabras.com New brand and new bottle Two years after intro- ducing Volvic Juicy to the market in a 0.5l bottle, Danone Waters Deutschland is continuing to add to its range of flavours and container sizes. Follow- ing the introduction of the 1.5l bottle, the latest vari- ation is the deployment of a transparent PET bottle with a content of one litre. The bottle has all-round reinforcement grooving and 3-dimensional recesses pro- truding inwards that increase stability and grip whilst ena- bling the weight of the bottle to be reduced. The bottle is decorated with a transparent plastic label and closed by means of a screw closure with embossed brand logo and guarantee strip. The picture shows the 0.5l bottle with pine- apple and the 1l bottle with orange/mango flavour. www.volvic.de