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Awards for Bericap

These two OSCARS among the 12 which were granted to the packaging industry this year rewarded two aspects of BERICAP’s SuperShorty® program :
1. optimisation of packaging performances in production, and
2. environment

During the lecture that was done to present the product, BERICAP insisted that SuperShorty® closure system not only provides outstanding packaging performances for carbonated beverages (tightness, security at opening, comfort to consumers, capping at high speed, etc…) but demonstrates the commitment of BERICAP to help the beverage industry to reduce its consumption of non renewable raw materials and the carbon footprint of its packaging components.

At this occasion, BERICAP delivered some of its latest carbon footprint (CF) calculations, including CF for resin production, for resin transportation, for production of energy and for transportation of packaging components to the fillers.

Based on those calculations, the replacement of traditional 28 mm plastic closures at 3.20 g for carbonated soft-drinks (CSD) used with a PCO 1810 PET neck finish at 5.05 g by this new 28 mm SuperShorty® closure at 2.40 g used with the new PCO 1881 PET neck finish at 3.82 g would create the following savings on non renewable raw material (HDPE and PET) and reductions in green house gas emissions expressed in g of CO2 equivalent (CF) :
· for any bottle, 2 g savings in resins and 15 g less CO2 emissions in atmosphere (CF)
· for 1 billion bottles, 2 000 tons of resin savings (between 2.5 and 3 million Euros worth) and 15 000 tons less of CF
· for 500 billion bottles (world market estimate for beverages): savings of 1 million tons of resins and 7.5 million tons of CO2 equivalent emissions
· and such world CF savings would correspond to the CO2 equivalent emissions of 20 million cars during one year (@ 25 000 km per car and per year); or of 14 000 flights from Paris to New York; or to 10% of the emissions of all the traditional power stations of Europe burning coal, gas or fuel.

This SuperShorty® program that is currently rolled out in many places of the world where BERICAP is operating, is one of the various commitments of BERICAP to offer sustainable packaging solutions to its customers.