Krones PET bottle wins iF packaging design award

Krones-iF packaging design award-9.9An ultralight PET bottle from Krones was among the winners at this year’s packaging design awards in the beverages category. The ‘PET lite 9.9’ carbonated bottle is suitable for being filled with carbonated beverages, and has a capacity of 500 millilitres. It only weighs 9.9 grams – making it 30 to 45 per cent lighter than comparable PET containers on the market.

The lightweight bottle marries affordability to ecological awareness. Since it can be produced with minimal expenditure of energy and material, it also reduces production costs and environmental impact. This is achieved, for example, by dividing up the bottle into several functional areas with different wall thicknesses. Most of the PET material is located in the upper part of the bottle, where it is held and opened. The walls in the lower section, by contrast, receive only half as much material.

Further significant weight savings are achieved with the special neck finish, since in contrast to other PET bottles this one does not have a screw-cap, but a tear-off ring-pull closure.

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