Why is PET the best choice for packaging water?
Marco Savorani: It offers design freedom, transparency and a good price for the raw material.
Is there a high level of demand for PET at the moment?
Savorani: Demand is stable in developed countries, but increasing in areas like India, China, southeast Asia and North Africa.
Describe the range of PET services that you offer the bottled water industry.
Savorani: Sacmi offers a full range of machinery, from the plastic material to the bottle on the pallet, compression and injection machines for the production of PET preforms and closures, blowers, mixers, filling lines, labelling machines, palletisers, belts and transport systems.
We provide complete lines for the PET beverage industry, as well as a high-quality service for bottle and preform designs, which meet customers’ needs and have marketing appeal.
What are the latest technical developments in PET bottles for water, and how are they broadening design possibilities for bottled water manufacturers?
Savorani: We believe that compression technology will change the rules of the market. This process makes it possible to:
How is your company addressing environmental issues?
Savorani: Sacmi is assessing several possibilities for recycling. In particular, as compression technology for preform production is a continuous process, it allows for the use of a high percentage of recycled materials. Compression also gives a very low IV drop.
What does the future hold for PET as a packaging material for water?
Savorani: We believe that in the future water will be packaged with bottles blown from very thin preforms, which offers significant energy savings. The PET water market makes very small margins – the key ways of being successful are vertical integration, efficiency, making energy savings, reducing costs and having captivating marketing.
Marco Savorani – Beverage BU PET business manager, Sacmi – was interviewed by Medina Bailey, editor of Water Innovation magazine. Subscribe here.
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