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Sidel ’ s ultra-small , ultra-light PET bottle for liquid dairy product
The new PET bottle from Sidel is designed to offer an increased competitive advantage for liquid dairy manufacturers .
This mini-size has been designed for products such as drinking and probiotic yoghurts withcapacities between 65ml to 150ml and is ideally suited for ambient and cold chain processes . The bottle would also suit applications within the juice , nectar , soft drinks , isotonics and tea sector .
“ This new format has been launched to support the liquid dairy product industry where the use of PET packaging has increasingly become an attractive alternative ,” comments Laurent
Naveau , Packaging Innovator Leader at Sidel . “ Part of Sidel ’ s continuous packaging optimisation programme , this bottle is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and costs while also offering new marketing opportunities and high production performance for manufacturers .”
Advanced sustainability and cost efficiency With Sidel ’ s new ultra-light bottle , manufacturers can benefit from PET ’ s heightened sustainability credentials . Not only is it the most affordable plastic on the market , but it is also the only food grade bottle-to-bottle recycled plastic .
By switching to PET , manufacturers can achieve up to a 40 percent cost reduction when moving from polystyrene to PET and a 20 percent reduction from HDPE ( high density polyethylene ).
Laurent Naveau says : “ Our new size has the bestin-class bottle weight with just 3.9g for a 100ml extended shelf-life bottle and 5.4g for 100ml aseptic bottle achieved through a dedicated
18 | November - December 2023