The GALILEO® II closure opens the door to high differentiation and cost reduction.

The GALILEO® II closure is a two-piece, flip-top closure. The base, which is the sealing element between bottle and closure, is made of Polyethylene. The tamper evident hinged over-cap is made of transparent Polypropylene allowing a one hand pouring. Thus, different color combinations are possible. Incorporated to the closure are two independent tamper-evidence seals. The consumer needs to first break the over-cap seal before being able to remove the pull-up ring, which eventually breaks the second seal. The transparent overcap allows the consumer to see the integrity of the membrane, which acts as a secondary tamper evident feature.

BERICAP has developed two different versions of the GALILEO® II closure.

The GALILEO® II version ref. 7873 developed for the Edible Oil market is
equipped with best features which can only be wished for a non drip closure:

- Orientation of the ring of the membrane so that the finger is always in the right position to pull up the safety seal.
- Curved shape of the lip of the pourer for clean pouring.
- Flow regulators to control the flow of the edible oil.

The GALILEO® II variant ref. 7875 for vinegar offers same features than edible oil variant except the pull-up ring which opens four small holes acting as “flow regulators”. The vinegar can thus freely be dosed, either by droplets, sprinkles or even “be showered” over the salad, depending on how much the consumer presses onto the bottle.

These features can be adopted to any new closure, fitting on existing standard bottle necks of diameter 29/21mm, 32/27.5mm or 36/29mm.

In substitution of those current standards, BERICAP conceptualised a new and lighter neck finish.

The new 26/21mm neck-finish with 1.3 g fewer weight per bottle compared to its 29/21mm predecessor has the potential to quickly be adopted by the edible oil industry.

COMIGO, edible oil company in Brazil, is the first customer to adopt the edible oil version of GALILEO® II closure (ref.7873). The vinegar version ref. 7875 has already successfully been adopted by the Brazilian Vinegar market leader ALIMENTOS CASTELO.

Potential PET resin savings are substantial, translating into a more economic package.

The GALILEO® II closure perfectly fits on the 26/21 neck-finish.

Smaller necks together with the light GALILEO® II 29/21mm closure ( 3,1g only )
offer a lot of potential for savings.

For further information please contact:

Sandra.david@bericap.com, Francois.deprez@bericap.com

BERICAP is a globally acting manufacturer of plastic closures with 18 factories in 17 countries across the world,on-going projects in several countries of Asia and Middle East and a network of licensees and partners to supplysimilar products made according to the same quality and service standards to its global customers; with 4central R&D centres in France, Germany, Spain and Turkey, 2 mould shops in Hungary and Poland and severalsatellite R&D offices in its main operations, BERICAP is particularly committed to development and innovationin plastic closures for its customers.