PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2019

17 PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 06/19 www.petpla.net JUBILEE The 63mm wide-mouth jar could be hot filled by up to 93.3 °C. 2013 PET Engineering’s ultra lightweighted projects were at the core of their Drinktec stand as fea- tured in issue 7+8. EvoLight, a 500ml bottle, weighed in the version for still water, with 7.5 g a full 31.5% less than the average of bottles on the market by then. Amcor developed Powerblock 3.0 container, a lightweight 64 oz hot fill bottle for juices and teas, and slashed 9 g (13.2%) from the typical 68 g con- tainer (issue 9). Packaging solutions specialist Appe launched in issue 10 a wide-mouth PET jar capable of hot fill and/or pasteurisa- tion. The ThermaLite jar could be hot filled at temperatures up to 95°C and could then be pasteurised for up to 20min. 2014 In issue 1+2 Sidel cracked another lightweight record with their RightWeight 7.95 g bottle, which was NEW RANGE HIGH PRESSURE LOW PRESSURE HIGH& LOW PRESSURE SIMULTANEOUSLY 100% 100% or or said to offer a superior consumer experience and a top-load perfor- mance of 33 kg. Sidel’s 7.95g RightWeight bottle Kortec and Sidel developed a 3-layer light blocking technology for milk, as we reported in issue 3. The black inner layer excluded the light from the bottle’s content. KHS launched the to date world’s lightest 0.5 l PET bottle with a screw cap for highly carbonated beverages to market weighing just 10.9 g. The competition is not asleep: In issue 4 Krones featured a lite bottle, weighing 9.9 g for 500ml carbonated water. Issue 10 highlighted PET Engineering’s Devin bottle. The designers used the regular forms of crystal glass as their starting point. The elabo- rate decoration began at the base and contin- ues upwards along its conical and essential shape. The bottle’s three dimensional decoration and the use of Nova- pet’s Glasstar reproducing the vibrant transparency of glass produced an interesting refraction effect. 2015 Turkish fruit and vegetable beverage producer Doganay company invested in KHS aseptic Plasmax lines. A still lemon soda pop was the company’s first product bottled aseptically in “GlasPET” (issue 1+2).