Tuesday, 7 April 2009

PET LIGHTWEIGHTING – UPDATE

In response to my blog of 27th March, I was asked where the lightweighting benchmarks are being achieved. With thanks again to Sipa, I have added an extra column showing the countries leading the way.

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

If you would like to know more, I recommend you go to Nicola.Morellato@zoppas.com

1 comments:

harrysg said...

Useful data - thank you Richard.

I find your blogs interesting, and hope others do too, and that - as they become better known - they will stimulate thought.