Pasteurizable PET jar for hot-fill
By Canadian Packaging Staff
General Bottling APPE Hot Fill pasteurization PET jarNew jar from UK firm provides benefits throughout supply chain.
Packaging solutions specialist APPE of the United Kingdom has launched a PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) jar capable of hot fill and/or pasteurization up to 95°C (203°F).
The new ThermaLite jar is the result of the company’s on-going strategic partnership with Nissei ASB GmbH—a Japanese company with European headquarters in Germany that manufactures equipment that produces blowmoulded PET packaging.
According to APPE, the ThermaLite offers food manufacturers and retailers a variety of convenience and sustainability benefits over more traditional packaging formats such as glass.
APPE says the jar is up to 85 percent lighter than glass equivalents with a smaller footprint, delivering huge savings in transport costs both before and after filling. It also uses less energy during the filling process, as well as reducing noise levels and avoiding the risk of breakages on the line. It is currently available in six sizes from 370ml to 720ml in round and octagonal designs, with further shapes and sizes in development.
The lightweight shatterproof construction offers vital safety and convenience benefits throughout the supply chain and in the home. For consumers, it provides easy handling and pouring, and its standard metal twist-off closure ensures easy opening and closing. The jar is also fully recyclable.
In retail markets, the clarity of the PET creates excellent on-shelf impact for a wide range of products including cooking sauces, pesto, tomato-based products, pickled vegetables, relishes chutneys, and fruit purées, jams and spreads. Equally important, thanks to the jar’s smaller footprint compared to glass, more units can be incorporated into the same shelf space, while its shatter-resistance offers new opportunities for product placement, for example inside the chill cabinets.
“Our new ThermaLite jar is a real breakthrough providing for the first time in a pasteurizable format, the clarity usually associated with glass with the light weight and consumer convenience benefits of plastic,” comments APPE business development director Mike Hanratty.
“Equally important, its energy and transport savings also make a valuable contribution to the reduction of companies’ carbon footprints and logistical costs.”
For more information visit www.appepackaging.com.
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