PETnews 6 NEWS PETplanet Insider Vol. 24 No. 03/23 www.petpla.net Danone North America to invest up to US $65 million to create a new bottle production line Danone North America announced it will invest up to US $65 million over the next two years to create a new bottle production line in Jacksonville, Florida. The investment is intended to support Danone North America’s long-term growth strategy and to deliver key benefits across the U.S. business, including advancing operational excellence, enabling flexibility in bottle design, accelerating the company’s sustainability goals, and driving cost efficiencies. This multi-million-dollar investment will increase production of several of Danone’s coffee and creamer brands in the U.S., including International Delight, Silk and Stok. It also serves to meet consumer demand in these categories while supporting the company’s sustainability goal by reducing overall water consumption, decreasing carbon emissions and accelerating the company’s goal of packaging circularity. The expansion will also create up to 40 new full-time jobs with competitive wages and benefits. New employees will be eligible for Danone North America’s parental bonding leave policy, enabling all manufacturing employees with one year of tenure to take up to 18 weeks of paid time off after the birth or adoption of a child. www.danonenorthamerica.com Berry and Coca-Cola collaborate to implement tethered caps in EU markets Berry Global Group, Inc. is the first plastic packaging manufacturer in Europe to supply The Coca-Cola Company with a lightweight, tethered closure for its carbonated soft drinks in PET bot t les. Bolstered by EU Single-Use Plastics Directive, Berry’s new tethered closure for Coca-Cola is designed to remain intact with the bottle – making it less likely to be littered and more likely to be recycled. In 2019, Coca-Cola held a supplier event to brief for this project. Berry – who has had an existing supply relationship with Coca-Cola for more than 20 years – was short-listed as a supplier in January 2020. Over 400 million closures have been applied to date on Coca-Cola bottling lines in Germany, Spain and the UK, with the rollout to continue to the company’s other European plants. Maintaining a convenient and comfortable user experience, in addition to product safety and security, Berry’s new tethered closure for Coca-Cola features a special tamper-evident band that, once broken, does not impact the closure’s ability to remain attached and is positioned out of the way for drinking but can easily be reclosed. When open, it is claimed to provide a wide angle for easy access to the beverage and comfortable on-the-go drinking. Berry’s closure for Coca-Cola is based on its patented CompactFlip hinge solution which unscrews and flips-open intuitively, according to Berry. It is the first to be used in conjunction with the new lightweight 26mm GME30.40 neck, developed by Cetie (The International Technical Centre for Bottling) Single-Use Plastics Group, of which Berry is a member. The new neck finish is claimed to deliver an over 1 g saving in PET compared to the current PCO-1881 neck. Combined with a 10% weight reduction from the Berry closure, the new pack is now around 20% lighter than the PCO-1881 version, states the company. Berry says that the production process remains the same, however, the filling line needed fine-tuning – with adjustments to feeding lines, capping chucks and cameras. www.berryglobal.com ALL- IN- ONE-MACHINE ASSEMBLY FOLDING SLITTING TETHERED CAP CONTEXO GMBH Tel. +49 (0) 7181 / 606-100 info@contexo-gmbh.de www.contexo-automation.de
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