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Light weight development for plastic closures

Less than 10 years after having introduced on the market the first plastic closures for still water, traded as HEXACAP®, that weighted less than 2 g and that were produced on large scale across the world (almost 10 billion closures per year), BERICAP is now engaged with another major challenge with HexaLite® closures at less than 1.5 g, saving a minimum of 0.5 g of plastic resin (HDPE), on new light weight neck finish for PET bottles saving at least 1.5 g of PET resin, allowing savings of 2.0 g per package.

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Weight reduction earns Coca Cola gold

Coca Cola took the 2008 Gold medal in the “Environment - Pack Optimisation category at the prestigious annual UK Starpack Awards for its lightweight contour glass bottle manufactured by Ardagh Glass. Judges were impressed by the 20 per cent reduction in weight to 210g whilst maintaining the bottle's iconic identity.

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Machine claimed to aid cosmetics packaging

The latest model of the range of weight-filling machines developed by Serac, Athena is a linear machine especially dedicated to productions in small series with a great number of references in cosmetics.

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Growing ecological food trend looks for natural packaging

Shown for the first time at Anuga, SilviPak is a new generation of natural packaging, based on pulp made from virgin wood fibres. The trays are dual ovenable and suitable for frozen and chilled ready meal products, challenging the “traditional” CPET and aluminium trays by being more natural and reducing both packaging weight and oil consumption.

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Sidel develops NoBottle

Sidel has developed an elegant, high-performance package that is also the lightest PET bottle yet for water (9.9 g per 500 ml bottle). This novel concept, dubbed NoBottle, is possible due to another Sidel innovation known as Flex.

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