100% recyclate: KHS and startup share develop unique PET bottle
Bottle designed using Bottles&Shapes? / Systems provider supports concept of sustainability / Products filled into PET bottles made of 100% recyclate
(PresseBox) - Berlin startup share is the first beverage producer in Germany to sell its water in PET bottles made of 100% recyclate. With its expertise from the Bottles & Shapes? consultancy program the KHS group supported the company by helping to design and develop the bottle in a very short time indeed.
The plans are ambitious: in 2019 share wants to fill water into about a million bottles a month made entirely of recycled PET and thus save over 200 metric tons of plastic waste a year, according to the company. For several weeks now the product has been on sale at Germany?s supermarket chain REWE and drug store dm and has caused quite a stir in the media. ?It took a long time for the original idea to be implemented,? says Iris Braun, head of Product and Social Projects at share. ?Finalizing the technology and obtaining certification are both lengthy processes. Your partners are thus crucial.? Besides the two aforementioned retailers share?s other partners are bottler Mineralbrunnen Allg
Experience from over 4,000 realized bottle designs
The German engineering company supported the startup in several ways, including in the development of the recyclate bottle design, states Marc Eysel, who is responsible for sales in Northern Europe at KHS Corpoplast. ?We implemented the development very quickly and worked on a suitable design together,? he says. Thanks to its holistic Bottles & Shapes? consultancy program the systems supplier was able to contribute to the share project experience drawn from over 4,000 designed bottles. ?KHS developed the bottle very quickly for us which was enormously helpful,? says Braun.
Eysel states that there were no unusual hurdles or challenges to be overcome through the use of 100% recyclate. ?Manufacture is actually simpler as the material?s darker color makes the preforms easier to heat than PET bottles made of virgin material.? Besides providing advice on the bottle design KHS also helps with production. share?s still and carbonated water is bottled at the Allg
Following the market launch of the recyclate bottle, interest is now also growing among other beverage producers, emphasize Braun and Eysel. ?A number of bottlers wishing to increase the amount of recycled PET they use have now contacted us,? claims Eysel. ?The protection of the environment also plays an important role at KHS. We support this by providing resource-saving plant engineering and also by developing sustainable PET bottles.? share hopes that it has provided the right incentives for more sustainability, states Braun. ?In the end it?s the consumer who decides.?
KHS is one of the leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries. The KHS Group includes the following companies: KHS GmbH, KHS Corpoplast GmbH, NMP Systems GmbH and numerous subsidiaries outside Germany.
KHS GmbH manufactures modern filling and packaging systems for the high-capacity range at its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, and at its factories in Bad Kreuznach, Kleve and Worms. The KHS Group''s PET expertise is pooled at KHS Corpoplast GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, where innovative PET packaging and coating systems are developed and produced. NMP Systems GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KHS GmbH based in Kleve in Germany, designs and markets new, resource-saving packaging systems.
In 2017 KHS and its 5,070 employees achieved a turnover of around ?1.137 billion. The companies in the KHS Group are 100% subsidiaries of the MDAX-listed Salzgitter AG corporation.
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KHS is one of the leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries. The KHS Group includes the following companies: KHS GmbH, KHS Corpoplast GmbH, NMP Systems GmbH and numerous subsidiaries outside Germany.KHS GmbH manufactures modern filling and packaging systems for the high-capacity range at its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, and at its factories in Bad Kreuznach, Kleve and Worms. The KHS Group''s PET expertise is pooled at KHS Corpoplast GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, where innovative PET packaging and coating systems are developed and produced. NMP Systems GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KHS GmbH based in Kleve in Germany, designs and markets new, resource-saving packaging systems.In 2017 KHS and its 5,070 employees achieved a turnover of around?1.137 billion. The companies in the KHS Group are 100% subsidiaries of the MDAX-listed Salzgitter AG corporation.
Datum: 30.10.2018 - 11:27 Uhr
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