Weighing in at 32g, the bottle (currently undergoing trials with a number of Nampak’s customers) represents a 20% material saving on the standard four-pint version found in most supermarkets.
This is the latest incarnation of Nampak’s award-winning Infini bottle, which claimed a World Star prize earlier this year and the ‘Best Dairy Packaging Innovation’ at the Global Dairy Congress in 2012.
The Infini bottle is already the lightest and strongest bottle on the market, but further innovation from Nampak’s design and engineering team meant that new achievements were possible.
Estimates from Nampak also reveal that a move towards the 32g bottle could herald significant environmental improvements for the wider milk sector.
If the company was to move its entire annual output of two billion bottles to the new, lighter Infini, 15,000 tonnes of resin would be saved each year. More importantly, if the lighter Infini was to become the bottle of choice, it would reduce the overall amount of resin used in UK milk packaging by 30,000 tonnes, which is a 25% saving.
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