PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2017

10 NEWS PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 09/17 www.petpla.net Currier Plastics awarded patent for tamper evident cap Currier Plastics has been granted a United States Patent for their new design of a Tamper Evident (TE) closure. The Research and Development (R&D) Team at Currier has spent the last three years in the design, development and testing of their TE closure design of which the Currier team expects to cross over into multiple markets includ- ing medical, healthcare and personal care. One of the positive features that Currier designed into their TE closure includes a confirmation window which provides an immediate indication that the lid has been opened. The TE clo- sure design includes a frangible TE finger that keeps the lid in the closed position. When the lid is lifted, the finger becomes separated from the lid and is captive between the lid and the bottle neck. When Currier built the prototype closure, they also designed a bottle and built prototype samples of both the closure and the bottle to complete testing. The team received their United States Patent on May 16, 2017. The TE closure is intended to be beneficial to multiple industries such as in vitro diagnostics and medical packaging, where there is a focus on health safety and reliability. www.currierplastics.com Sesotec has a new managing director in Italy With Andrea Festelli, the Sesotec group, with effect from April 1, 2017, has recruited a new managing director for the two Italian subsidiaries. The Genoese-born Festelli studied electrical engineering at the university of Genoa. Before he moved to Sesotec, Festelli had worked for seven years for the Italian subsidiary of the GEA group, where he held the position of managing director, and before that headed up the service department. In the course of his professional career he has held positions in international sales, marketing, and R&D departments. One of the major tasks of Andrea Festelli (47) will be to merge the two Italian companies Sesotec Italy, specialised in product inspection, and ASM, who focus on food sorting. www.sesotec.com