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.
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Branko Djokic from Serbia claims to have invented a hygienic lid for beverages. The full description of it in his unedited letter to us is given below:
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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.
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BERICAP’s DoubleSeal SuperShorty closure range for PCO 1881 is already well established for carbonated beverages and still water in markets like Europe, Americas and Asia. This closure range together with the PCO 1881 light weight neck offers the opportunity of significant weight reduction of up to 30%. With this closure range BERICAP claims to support industrial efforts to reduce costs, but also to improve environmental sustainability of their businesses.
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COCA-COLA China decided already in Quarter 1 2008 to take advantage of reducing material usage by converting their aseptic PET beverage packages from PCO 1810 neck finish to PCO 1881. One of the closures they selected was the 1881 SuperShorty® closure.
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Whether beverage cans, spray cans or capsules and dishes for the food industry – the market for metal packaging is huge. According to the sector association APEAL, some eleven billion steel aerosol cans are produced every year. Almost another six billion cans are made from aluminum. The figures for beverage cans are even more impressive: experts believe around 230 billion aluminum cans are produced every year.
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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.
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The Cosmetic Packaging Group, a division of O.BERK Company, has introduced a new line of flint glass perfume bottles beginning with the Carelis Collection. These square-shaped bottles for perfumes and colognes are available in 30-ml, 50-ml and 100-ml, all with 15-mm crimp neck finishes. The Carelis Collection can be further enhanced with optional frosting, ceramic decorating, and labeling.
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Alpha Packaging has added a new line of three Indented Large Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Rounds to its stock packaging for the nutritional industry. The 2000cc, 2500cc and 3000cc Indented Rounds fill a need in the industry for a single reliable source for all three popular sizes. All three bottles are built off the same 141 gram preform and feature a 110-400 continuous thread neck.
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BERICAP will show a variety of new closure concepts at the INTERPACK for the food, beverage and chemical industry.
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