Upside-Down Beverage Containers
When we take a walk along the supermarket aisles and look at row after row of beverage bottles, the consumer can’t be impressed by the design, as almost all have […]
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Forming and Filling Beverage Bottles
One of the most important requirements for plastic beverage bottles is the option that the bottle can be filled aseptically. The most common procedure to reach that condition is to […]
Ergonomics in Bottle Design (Part 02)
When we take a walk along the supermarket aisles and look at the PET beverage bottles, the consumer can’t be impressed by the design, as almost all have a same […]
Ergonomics in Bottle Design
The term “ergonomics” is derived from two Greek words: “ergon”, meaning work, and “nomoi”, meaning natural laws. Ergonomists study human capabilities in relationship to work demands. Today, however, the word […]
Single-Serve Cap™ – A New Packaging Format
Our world is moving towards a quick and convenient way of living. But for this quick and convenient way of living the consumer is setting quite a range of requirements […]
Developments in Dispensing Caps – Tap-The-Cap
If you buy one of the ready-to-drink energy or vitamin drinks in the assumption that it will give you the necessary kick, you might be in for a surprise. The […]
Sphere or Cuboid – The Cubis
My article about the ball-shaped two-compartment PET-bottle received quite some comments regarding the inefficiency of this packaging format in the supply chain. And indeed the ball-shape isn’t the best partner […]
Renewing PET – New Types of Environmentally Sustainable Plastics
In the USA more than 13 billion plastic bottles are disposed of each year. Most plastic beverage bottles are made from PET. After being emptied and hopefully tossed in the […]
Cubis – Innovative ‘cubed’ Beverage Bottles
Notwithstanding the growing importance of cylindrical shaped aluminium cans, stand-up pouches with all types of fitments and rectangular Tetra Pak-like paperboard boxes, the most common packaging for beverages in the […]
Short, Shorter, the Shortest (Part 2)
In the first part of my article (which you find here) I wrote about the consequences of the introduction of the new PCO 1881 standard neck-finish for beverage bottles. As […]
Short, Shorter, the Shortest
The item I want to handle today, doesn’t belong to the glamorous part of packaging. However its existence and eventual evolution have tremendous impact on the beverage industry and as […]
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