Flexible packaging solutions for all products, shapes and sizes

New market trends and consumers’ expectations require constant adaptations of bottledesigns and shapes. Based on its strong expertise in plastics packaging solutions, Sidel offers avariety of bottle and multipack designs that fulfil today’s key packaging requirements.Beverage producers not only pose high demands on design and marketability of theirpackaging products, but also require top quality and safety standards. In addition, bottlersand converters attach high importance to sustainable production processes at low cost andhigh profitability. At interpack, Sidel presents four packaging solutions that help itscustomers achieve variety in designs while fulfilling all additional market demands.As a complete solution provider with expertise in both engineering and creative design, Sidel offersa number of bottling designs and toolings. What’s more, Sidel advises and supports its customersthrough its Packaging and Tooling Centres at six locations throughout the world. The latest bottlingdesign choices include the FreeShape™ bottle, the Cluster bottle and the Daily dose package, alloffering maximum levels of flexibility and creativity. Modulomold™ adds to the concept offlexibility by allowing different bottle designs to be produced in a single mold using removablemold inserts with quick and easy change-overs.Cluster™ bottle: unique creativity   It is not just the bottle itself, but also the way it is presented, that makes it attractive to retail andconsumers alike: the cluster symbolizes the “jewel case” made for a precious product such as water.Sidel has come up with a new packaging concept that signals a new approach to product promotion:rather than placing bottles on a shelf, the Cluster™ bottle bundles a number of short-neck bottlesusing green neck rings that are attached to a main branch resembling fruit hanging on a tree. Thecustomers in the shop simply “pick” the bottles they wish to buy. Cluster bottles are suitable for arange of different products, from water and flavoured water to sensitive beverages including juicesand dairy. The bottles can be light-weight and can be made of recycled material and/or biosourcedmaterial. Because of their attractive design, they are an ideal 2nd-life package for possible reuse athome.DailyDose™ package: an innovative pack   DailyDose™ is a multipack solution directed particularly at families and consumers who wish toconsume small amounts of fruit doses or yoghurt drinks on a regular basis. Six bottles are sleevedindividually and linked with one unique label in a handy set.For packaging companies, they enable flexible and cost-effective production as one label, or,alternatively, one sleeve is used for a pack of six bottles. The daily dose is one pack for a familywith one dose a day of healthy product.The Daily Dose™ package again is a flexible concept offering one design for different products. Itis ideal for on-the-go consumption as the small bottles fit into the smallest of handbags.Modulomold™: Productivity and “marketing-ability”   As liquid food packaging companies strive to give consumers ever more choices, the need for quick format change-overs becomes increasingly important. To respond to these productivity needs as well as the greater customization of packages, Sidel presents its Modulomold™ technology. It allows several bottles of the same size (up to 0.7 liters) to be produced in a single mold using removeable mold inserts. It is an intuitive solution for quick and simple format changeovers.The bottles have two shared parts, the labeling area and the base, and either one or two areas, the shoulder and/or the body, can be customized using the inserts. It takes less than 30 seconds to change a set of inserts, from opening the first mold to opening the second. No tools are required to perform the change-over. Thus, Modulomold™ perfectly fits with the current trend in terms of packaging designs turnover allowing proposing some limited packaging series or dedicated to a special event as well.FreeShape™: Liberating bottle shapes for sensitive beverages   With FreeShape™, PET bottle shapes are no longer constrained by the choice of filling technology. FreeShape™ offers the possibility of using a similar bottle design for both hot fill and aseptic filling. This development is based on Sidel’s in-depth knowledge of material characteristics, aseptic packaging, hot filling and blow molding technologies. The secret of FreeShape™ lies in its specific patented bottle base profile, which acts like a membrane or piston: it pulls up and falls depending on the contained product’s volume variations. This solution responds to the packaging needs of sensitive products such as juices or teas filled at temperatures between 85 and 92°C , which lead to bottle swelling during hot fill and then shrinkage when the liquid is cooled.