PET LIGHTWEIGHTING

Also from our Global Soft Drinks Congress earlier in March came some useful bottle weight benchmarks for companies to compare their own efficiency.

	Size in litres	Grams of PET	Grams per litre
For bottled water	0.3	7.9	26.3
	0.5	9.9	19.8
	0.6	12.0	20.0
	1.5	25.5	17.0
	2.0	33.0	16.5
	10.0	115.0	11.5
For carbonated soft drinks,	0.4	17.0	42.5
Based on Coca-Cola	0.6	20.5	34.2
	1.0	33.5	33.5
	1.5	42.5	28.3
	2.0	46.5	23.2
	2.5	52.5	21.0
	3.0	54.5	18.2
For hot fill still drinks	0.35	20.0	57.1
	0.5	22.0	44.0

These figures were kindly provided by Sipa Plastic Packaging Systems.

For further information on the Congress presentations, please go to www.zenithinternational.com/events.