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Amcor introduces the industry's lightest 16oz PET container

Amcor introduces the industry's lightest 16oz PET container Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of PET packaging, has made a major advancement in weight reduction with the development of the lightest 16oz PET salad dressing bottle in North America.

Amcor Introduces the Industry's Lightest 16oz PET Salad Dressing Container

Amcor Introduces the Industry's Lightest 16oz PET Salad Dressing  Container Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of PET packaging, has made a major advancement in weight reduction with the development of the lightest 16oz PET salad dressing bottle in North America. The 16oz Curve, a stock oblong container, weighs in at just 29.5g, almost 20% lighter than the industry standard (35.3g). It also beats out a competitive 30.4g PET bottle, which until now was the industry’s lightest salad dressing container.

New Amcor's 12oz ring neck PET bottle

New Amcor's 12oz ring neck PET bottle Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of PET Packaging, has launched a 12oz ring neck PET bottle as a glass replacement option for premium food and beverage brands including sauces, dressings, condiments, and ready-to-drink (RTD) teas and juices.

French Vodka in PET

French Vodka in PET White Rock Distilleries extends the use of PET for Pinnacle Line of imported French Vodka.

Skyward and Curvy: new PET bottles produced by Sidel

Skyward and Curvy: new PET bottles produced by Sidel Sidel has announced the development of what it says are the world’s lightest hot-fill PET bottles.

The smallest hot fill PET container

The smallest hot fill PET container Amcor PET Packaging, a leader in hot fill PET technology, has broken new ground with the introduction of the industry’s smallest hot fill PET container.

New Kortec's Multilayer Color Gradation Technology’ (MCGT)

New Kortec's Multilayer Color Gradation Technology’ (MCGT) Kortec Inc. will introduce an all-new high barrier, multilayer molding technology that allows for molded-in color gradation to clear PET bottles.

European PET bottle collection increases by more than 11%

European PET bottle collection increases by more than 11% Petcore announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.26m tonnes in 2008, an increase of more than 11% on 2007.

PowerFlex PET bottle

PowerFlex PET bottle Cliffstar Corp., one of the largest private-label beverage suppliers in the U.S. , is offering for the first time its own brand of premium beverages. The Chadwick Bay line, produced by Harborside Inc., a Cliffstar subsidiary, includes single-serve enhanced juice, enhanced water, organic juice, and smoothies bottled in an attractive and lightweight PowerFlex polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle from Amcor PET Packaging.

Drinktec 2009 in Munich

Drinktec 2009 in Munich Why is alcohol-free beer so trendy? Is PLA a serious challenger to PET? Is the sun going to be the main source of energy for the beverages industry of the future? And what does the label of the future 'say'? At drinktec 2009, World Fair for Beverage and Liquid Food Technology, it´s not all about the technology used to manufacture and bottle beverages and liquid food – it is also of course about the products themselves.