Petainer launches light weight jar

Petainer, a plastic packaging supplier, is launching the petainerJarT. The new PET jar can be supplied as a fully blown jar or as a PET wide mouth preform to be blown by food manufacturers on their premises.

The petainerJarT weighs less than traditional jars, so more can be transported in one truck. The preform offers additional benefits, as they require less storage space. The jars are manufactured using a PET blend which ustilises barrier technology to extend shelf-life and is fully recyclable. The petainerJarT is available in sizes ranging from 300 ml to 7.6 litres, with standard neck sizes from 63 to 120mm.

Annemieke Hartman-Jemmett, group commercial strategy director at Petainer, says, “The launch of the petainerJarT is an exciting move for us and means we can bring our wealth of expertise into this part of the packaging market for the first time.  Our new jars have so much going for them, and it’s our mission to ensure that as many food manufacturers as possible can enjoy these benefits.”

“We know that food companies are concerned that their cash flow is severely impacted due to the long period taken up by production and logistics, which outside of Europe can take as much as 12 – 16 weeks.  With petainerJarT, whether supplied ready-blown or as a preform, we offer customers far shorter lead times, as well as a highly engineered quality product at a lower cost offering with improved sustainability, and, they are produced in Europe.”