Amcor has helped a US-firm transform their marinade product line from glass to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for lower freight costs while maintaining brand image.
Plasmax, a manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle
coatings, says that while it has not yet made its latest size
applications available in Europe, it expects growing potential for
the product within the bloc.
A new test that realistically determines how much oxygen will pass
through food and beverage packaging during a product's lifetime
will enable producers to speed up and improve new product trials.
Zimmer, a subsidiary of mg technologies, claims to have developed a
new process that manufactures blanks for PET bottles 10 per cent
more efficiently than at present. This, it says, amounts to a cost
saving of €100 per tonne of bottle...
The American Food and Drug Administration has given Schott HiCotec
approval for its innovative PICVD process for barrier coating in
food and beverage packaging made of PET.
Sidel will showcase a PET blowing system at the forthcoming NPE in
Chicago, US that is said to be the fastest machinery of its kind -
beating two previous records.
SIG Corpoplast, the global manufacturer of machines for
theproduction of PET bottles, has 'wrapped' its head office with
25,000 PET bottles to celebrate the 150 anniversary of the Swiss
SIG group.
