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News Release from: Husky Injection Molding Systems | Subject: Single-serve PET bottle
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 November 2005
Single-Serve PET Bottle Responds To
Beverages Law
Husky Injection Moulding Systems, along with bottle manufacturer PET Engineering and closure molder Corvaglia, has developed a lighter, more cost-effective single-serve PET bottle.
Husky Injection Moulding Systems, along with bottle manufacturer PET Engineering and closure molder Corvaglia, has developed a lighter, more cost-effective single-serve PET bottle The bottle has been created in response to proposed Italian legislation that would require all bars and restaurants to serve bottled beverages exclusively
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The legislation, expected to be passed in Italy in the coming months and potentially adopted across Europe, responds to growing food and beverage purity and security concerns.
For consumers, it means the days of being served a glass of mineral water, for example, are essentially over.
Instead, food establishments will be required to serve bottled beverages alone.
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Whilst the legislation has created a new growth opportunity for single-serve bottles, currently available in Italy in sizes such as 250ml and 330ml, it has required a new, more efficient approach to making preforms for the bottles.
Traditionally, PET bottles of this size have not been in great demand and, as a result, have been produced using preforms in the 16 grams to 20 grams range - preforms have been normally used for 0.5L bottles.
Realising the waste in resources and costs in this approach, PET Engineering, of San Vendemiano (Italy) set out to re-engineer the single-serve beverage preform and container.
To do so, it drew on its own bottle and preform design strengths, Husky's expertise in hot runners, mould making and preform production and Swiss-based Corvaglia's experience in caps and closures manufacturing.
The first of several new containers from PET Engineering, a 200ml bottle for carbonated drinks dubbed the monodose bottle, uses a 10-gram preform.
The technology, initially offered to drinks producers serving the Italian market, is likely to spread as other European countries are expected to pass similar legislation.
Moreno Barel, PET Engineering's president, said: "These lighter and smaller preforms have two main purposes.
One is to optimise the existing 250ml and 330ml bottles on the market.
The other is to expand the range of bottle sizes, extending it to a wider market for new single-use beverages such as wine, juice and coolers." Samples of the new preforms and bottles can be seen on the Husky stand (hall A6, stands 335, 341, 536 and 542) at the Drinktec/PETpoint 2005 exhibition.
Samples can also be seen at PET Engineering's stand (hall A6, stand 644).
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