The bottle weighs just 10.9g, which, on an international scale, makes it the lightest PET container for heavily carbonated beverages of its kind and size currently on the market.
The launch to market at the end of 2013 was preceded by extensive research and development activities that involved the tried-and-tested Bottles & Shapes programme, a service and consultancy portfolio for the design and development of plastic bottles; always bearing the entire bottling line in mind.
The project was initiated by a customer request to optimise the weight of the 12.5g bottle used to date to the maximum, without detriment to consumer handling. This also meant that one of the essential requirements was that the bottle be resealable.
One of the key steps in the process was the reworking of the bottle thread. The new receptacle now has a ‘streamlined’ thread. Despite the singularly low use of materials, KHS has managed to increase the stability of the recessed grip by modifying the bottle shape.
“We believe there’s still a lot of potential here,” said Arne Wiese, bottles & shapes product manager at KHS Corpoplast. “In the future, too, we’ll continue to study all aspects and consider the line suitability of every new bottle we design in accordance with our bottles & shapes concept. Our large, longstanding customer base proves time and again that here we’re on the right track. We look for solutions which satisfy customer demands right down to the last detail and, as the most recent system for highly carbonated beverages described here shows, in an ideal world we even surpass these.”
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