PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2019

18 PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 06/19 www.petpla.net JUBILEE Together with Greiner Packaging, the company U-Boot Getränke realised a “bottle-in-the-bottle” packaging which consisted of a 30ml inner bottle filled with schnaps in a 140ml outer bottle filled with soda – both sealed by the same cap, as shown in issue 5. Company Jussara bot- tled UHT milk in PET and thus stood out in the domestic market, dominated by carton packaging (issue 6). A Sidel aseptic blow-fill-cap solution equipped with dry preform contamination ena- bled the Brazilian dairy product pro- ducer to realise that. 2016 Issue 7+8: The lightest 900ml PET bottle hitherto was pro- duced by Brazilian Algar Agro com- pany in collaboration with Sidel. The weight: 14 g. Huiyuan Suntory Beverage told us in issue 9 about their lightweight developments: By design optimisa- tions and a new neck finish, weight could be reduced for hot fill bottles over the years from 26.5 g to 21.3 g, and for aseptic bottles to 14.8 g – only to realise that Chinese customers are looking for heavier bottles and that the weight had to be increased again. In 1989, AGD was the first brand in Argentina filling vegetable oil in PET bottles. 27 years later, the weight of the square bottles with recessed grips could be optimised with the Bottles & Shapes programme by KHS. Via computer simulation, possible weight savings in the bottles’ bodies were detected. Without compromising on stability, the original target could even be topped. In the same issue we introduced the first 100% PCR rPET bottle for liquid laundry, realised by Amcor and Method. Colour stability of the laundry detergent in PET, hand grip design and neck design were the challenges which had to be mastered. At Brau Beviale, KHS featured a lightweight 0.5 l beer bottle. By making the neck ring much smaller and reduc- ing the wall thickness in neck and thread, the weight was cut down to 20.9 g, as featured in issue 12. Coca-Cola developed a 250ml KHS Plasmax-coated container to coincide with its very first appearance on the Indian market. 2017 IPC and Lanfranchi replaced stackable HDPE containers with PET. As we report in issue 4, a horizontal handle was incorporated during the blowing process. Manjushree Tech- nopack from Banga- lore, India, devel- oped a PET fusion jar made up of a main jar, small jar, main cap and small cap. The main cap and the small jar have a locking mech- anism which interlock to form a single component. The two jars cannot be separated without breaking the locking mechanism. Thus the consumer can access two different taste enhancers which can be blended to create a unique brew (see issue 5). 2018 An alternative approach: In issue 3 we introduced the Spanish business Vitbot with their oval shaped bottles. Besides offering a unique dif- ferentiation at the POS, the bottles’ shape is claimed to preserve the prop- erties of the liquids. For issue 5 the PETplanet Editour visited a boutique bottling company in California. What we learned here: High quality durable PET bottles with the classic heavy PCO 1810 cap are a growing trend again for premium waters. The Factor 100 still water bottle – a collaboration between KHS and Husky – were on stage at NPE. The extremely light packaging solution weighs only 5 g for 500ml. In the very same issue, another extremely lightweight solution was introduced: The Krones 200ml water bottle weighs 4.4 g and features a droplet-shaped design. The beginning of the year saw the commercialisation of the first consumer package produced via Amcor’s Liqui- Form technology, as reported in issue 7+8. Amcor partnered with Michigan- based Greenblendz to develop and com- mercialise packaging for the Nature’s Promise brand of hand soap. Amcor 360 produced the 12oz PET bottle on a proprietary Amcor-built machine pow- ered by the LiquiForm process. The new machine was the industry’s first manu- facturing unit to successfully utilise the LiquiForm technology. Successful tests in the beverage sector have also been mastered, as Ashish Saxena, then Vice President and General Manager of Liqui- form, told us during NPE. In issue 12, the German start-up Share introduced water bottles made from 100% rPET. The KHS group sup- ported the project in design and bottle development. 2019 For a report in issue 3, we visited Ice River Springs in Ontario, which has been producing 100% rPET bottles for a number of years. When we wrote about them back in issue 11/2010, the company was in their final stages of producing their 100% rPET bottles. A PET growler with a handle plus providing barrier protection with a 120 days shelf life – an industry first, claims manufacturer W. Amsler Equip- ment, and intends to provide craft beer brewers with a lightweight alter- native to glass (see issue 5). 200ml droplet- shaped lightweight bottle