For a while now,
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), while using less
raw material.
Recently one of
BERICAP’s business partners, the French ALMA Group, converted its
PET bottle range from PCO 1810 neck to a short neck derived from PCO
1881. BERICAP has supported the conversion, especially the cap and
closure application, based on experience gained from numerous other
PCO 1881 conversions in recent months. In addition, another BERICAP
customer in the European beverage industry is about to begin the
conversion to PCO 1881 and SuperShorty® Eco as well.
Those companies
have chosen the SuperShorty® Eco from BERICAP because it is suitable
for carbonated soft drinks up to 8g CO2/l due to its economic and
technical advantages. The closure ensures safe venting even on large
size bottles up to 2.5 liters. The design of the tamper evidence
band allows proper and easy application of the closure, plus the
combined weight of closure and neck amounts allows a resin saving of
up to 30% compared to the traditional PCO 1810 neck plus closure.
The PCO 1881
conversion of the French bottler and of the next player in Europe is
another step for BERICAP toward the completion of a 5 billion
capacity installation of SuperShorty® 28 in 2009 in Europe, North
America and Asia.
For further
details, please visit
www.bericap.com.