Innovative SIG barrier technology for PET plastics bottles proves its industrial capability in production with beverage customers in Europe.

In addition to its carton packaging arm for beverages and food products (SIG Combibloc Division), SIG is unremittingly expanding its superior range of production and filling systems for plastic bottles (SIG Beverages Division) under the concept of its “value added bottling” strategy.

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A key part in this strategy is the innovative barrier technology from SIG Plasmax, the most important long-term growth driver of the future for the division. In the course of this year, three further pilot units were installed with notable customers; Since April, Eckes-Granini, one of the leading producers of fruit juices in Europe, has been producing PET bottles with the new, invisible PLASMAX barrier, at Henniez’s facility in Switzerland. For several months now, production of the coated bottles for the brands “granini” and “hohes C” has been operating smoothly and at full speed. In the meantime, over five million plastics bottles have been produced for the Swiss market. Eckes-Granni are impressed and convinced of the industrial capability of the PLASMAX equipment under full production conditions.

PLASMAX technology from SIG. Click Go for larger image. photo: SIG

Plasmax is a cutting-edge technology for coating PET bottles. A barely perceptible layer of glass, applied by plasma, forms a barrier against oxygen ingress and carbonation loss from the bottle. This shielding effect increases the shelf-life of products filled in PET bottles.