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Gerolsteiner, the German mineral water company, has launched a new 0.75L package format for its eponymous brand, equipped with a 28mm Original Sport Cap.

The market environment in the mineral water industry changes rapidly. Best price offers of discounters for mineral water filled in one-way PET are the bench mark for the whole industry. In consequence, cost structures must be adapted drastically and fast.

BERICAP starts production for a sports closure suitable for aseptic filling with both, wet and dry decontamination and high flow rate at the same time

Earlier this year Plasticum Group launched Oscar, a one-piece spray cap with the Insertless Spray technology. Oscar has been developed in close co-operation with some leading players in the aerosol industry, who have already adopted this cap for their deodorants, anti-perspirants, body sprays and hairsprays.

Raw material saving, CO2 emission reduction and last but not least cost saving measures are major drivers in the industry nowadays. Understanding these necessities of the market and of the environment at a very early stage, BERICAP developed and introduced closure systems with optimized functionalities, not compromising on safety features and supporting at the same time the global target to minimize CO2 emission (greenhouse effect) by saving non-renewable resources through light weighting of packaging.

The new Sika click packaging was developed to increase ease of use and reduce consumption of Sika’s pre-treatment products.

Kornelis Caps & Closures will exhibit at the Fachpack. This fair will take place in Nuremburg from 29th September to 1st October 2009. The Fachpack is one of the largest shows in the field of packaging in Germany.

Specialist skills have been combined to provide supermarket chain Lidl with a personalised container and cap for its Minavit vitamins.

Biopack has recently joined Socoplan – Ileos Group subsidiary providing samples and unit doses.

BERICAP offers two basic types of sport closures to the market, the well known Push Pull closure, consisting of 3 different parts and the 2-piece THUMB’UP® sport closure, offering the unique advantage of one hand opening and re-closing. It is a closure for any beverage being used during sports such as cycling, when the user has only one hand available to open a bottle. The hinge closure offers an easy and safe opening/re-closing, is equipped with an ergonomic pourer shape and fulfils modern aesthetics needs. The good flow rate supports a good taste of the product for the consumer.

The Thermic Juice bottle range produced by RPC is desighed for oxygen sensitive drink products such as fresh juices, smoothies or nutritional drinks to give products a good shelf-life when stored under ambient conditions. The tamper-evident cap and induction seal liner combine to give maximum security. The Thermic Ribs® and multilayer material structure of the bottles have been specifically designed to allow the bottles to withstand high temperature processing, even sterilisation.

Since a very early stage BERICAP understood the necessity to develop light weight closures for the beverage industry in order to reduce the packaging cost for its partners and at the same time helping the environment by reducing the CO2 emission (Green House Gas effect), whilst using less raw material, which also support the saving non renewable resources.

OST-Aqua, third biggest Russian filler of carbonated soft drinks, have developed a unique range of drinks for the active lifestyle of modern-day consumers.

Global demand for caps and closures is forecast to expand 4.2 percent per year through 2012 to $36.5 billion, representing 1.6 trillion units. However, over the 2008-2010 period, growth in all regions will be negatively impacted by the ongoing global economic malaise. Continuing urbanization and rising personal incomes in the developing world will support expansion of consumer nondurable goods markets, with closures and other packaging materials among the primary beneficiaries. Gains will also be supported by the continuing growth of closure-intensive plastic packaging at the expense of closureless containers such as metal cans. Beverages will remain the dominant market for caps and closures, accounting for 64 percent of unit demand in 2012.

General Bottlers CR, the Czech subsidiary of Pepsi Americas, have selected the 28mm Original Sport Cap from Seaquist Closures for their recently launched new product Toma Natura still water in a 0.7litre bottle.

New BorPure™ from Borealis, a provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, will create new-found opportunities for the beverage industry to develop screw caps with best-in-class organoleptic performance for bottled water and soft drinks. The pioneering BorPure multimodal high density polyethylene (HDPE) grades fulfil current market trends for an ‘as bottled’ taste without compromising on cap quality, aesthetics or converters’ demands for higher productivity with manufacturing cost reductions.

Podravka has launched the first range of functional waters on the Croatian market, Studena Go, Studena Shine and Studena Defense, with a series of TV spots and press advertisements. Presented as new and original beverages, they are capped with a 28mm Original Sport Cap from Seaquist Closures.

O.BERK Company has introduced the Sunrise * Sunset Collection of jars in both plastic and glass for the cosmetics, health & beauty care, aromatherapy, cosmeceutical, and private label markets.

BERICAP once more exhibited its products at the BRAU Beviale 2008.

BERICAP received a “WorldStar 2008” from the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) for its SuperShorty®.

BERICAP has developed the closure range HexaLite® for bottling of still water. The HexaLite® exists as HexaLite® 26 FB, suitable for light weighted 26 mm neck finish and the HexaLite® 29 FB, suitable for a light weighted 30 mm neck finish.

The German Systempack Manufaktur has introduced a new range of bottles, including those with a swing cap, which it will be showing at Brau Beviale.

The new Feather tube top line combines stylish design with greater sustainability.

RPC beauté’s reputation for innovative and eye-catching cosmetics packaging solutions has been confirmed with the creation of three caps for the latest launches from the Escada brand. The designs are amongst the first to benefit from a recent € 1 million investment made to RPC beauté’s plating and assembly processes.

The current Dollar rate does not make US Business for European companies very easy. Watertown Plastics Inc. based in Connecticut (USA) together with its main customer Axilone – a well-known French manufacturer of cosmetic caps and closures – decided nevertheless to invest in Multi-injection technology from Billion. This strategic choice creates a transatlantic link to bring Know-how from Europe in the USA. The aim is to generate more added values.

BERICAP will show a variety of new closure concepts at the INTERPACK for the food, beverage and chemical industry.

Risdon has developed caps for Ralph Lauren Fragrances, which is on division of L’Oreal USA, Ralph Wild. This cap is as the fragrance open mind.

Mattoni, the Italian owned, biggest bottled water company in the Czech Republic has opted for the 28mm Original bi-colour sports cap for its range of 0.75L flavoured and functional waters.

Seidel will exhibit at the Cosmoprof (Cosmopack) in Bologna (10/04/2008 – 13/04/2008). Seidel manufactures aluminium caps for the bottles and tubes as well as aluminium design rings to decorate the caps of the crème jars for the Bvlgari skin care line. All parts are anodised in shiny silver and feature the well-known Bvlgari logotype debossed accurately into the shiny metal surface.

Silgan White Cap has launched the 51PT-Band. This patented composite metal and plastic closure features a plastic tamper evident band and safety button indicator and its universal closure design is suitable for all Press-On Twist-Off applications.

Axilone achieved a metal cap at the same time "Temptress", "Rebellious”, “Capricious”, "Mysterious "for the new Sephora fragrance.

RPC Verpackungen Kutenholz has developed a new 4 litre can for ARAL, part of the BP Group.

Maspex Wadowice, Poland, chose a special promotion for their juice and nectar brand “Kubus”: more than 40 different Twist-Off closure designs are printed with all relevant characters of “Shrek” - just in time for the launch of the new movie.

Axilone, one of the main leaders in caps and closures for the perfume, cosmetics and make up industry, is the only producer of plastic and metal components based in Europe, in the USA and in China. Axilone is positioned to respond to the global needs of its customers.

Thanks to its product development department, today Lumson can offer more than 20 cosmetic Packaging lines/collections with more than 100 accessories that go from cosmetic pumps to overcaps, from jar covers to screwing caps to different type of dispensing systems; on top of this and to offer a 360° service, Lumson can also take care of all the decorations (screen printing, hot stamping, tampo printing, laquering, metallizations).

At a time when forgeries represent 10% of world trade, perfume-cosmetic and parapharmaceutical brands, which are the first victims, have to implement systematic solutions to guarantee the origin and non-opening of their products prior to usage.

RPC Bramlage has enhanced its renowned standard range of personal care packaging with the launch of a roll-on deo container that meets demand from brands for a cost-effective alternative to bespoke designs that still delivers excellent functionality and style.

BERICAP developed two different sizes of over caps for MAXICAY. Located in Almaty/Kazakhstan, MAXICAY started with tea production, producing locally its own preform and closures in 2004. In 2005 the Kazak company already chose the BERICAP DoubleSeal™ 7056 closure for its hotfilling tea production. In 2006 it switched to the DoubleSeal™ 7060 closure. MAXICAY’s sales skyrocketed in one year being the biggest tea producers in all Kazakhstan.

GASSNER, the specialist for cap feeding systems, presents new, integrated solutions to combine conventional and oriented cap feeding for nearly all kinds of caps. We do not see the different kinds of cap feeding each by each, we offer a wide range of posiblities to combine the systems. In accordance to the needs of our customers we take the benefits of the conventional cap feeding and bring them together with the benefits of the orientated cap feeding. This combination guarantees a high effectiveness of our entire system.

At Procter & Gamble Prestige Products’ annual "Supplier Review Day" in October 2006 Seidel obtained the “Innovation Award 2006”.

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