SO THAT THE CONTENTS KEEP
WHAT THE PACKAGING
PROMISES.
NATURALLY SUSTAINABLE.
Intelligent solutions from ALTANA help to ensure that food not only looks great
on the outside, but stays fresh longer. These innovations often also ensure that there
is less packaging waste and better recycling.
Antipasti for a cozy dinner with family or friends at home or a few
soft drinks for a picnic in the park? When we have to shop
quickly, most of us intuitively choose particularly original or attractively
packaged products. ALTANA’s ACTEGA and ECKART divisions
have literally brilliant solutions for this. But they also pay attention
to “inner values” such as freshness, shelf life, hygiene
protection of food, and of course resource efficiency. As a consequence,
we consumers can enjoy exactly what the beautiful
exterior promises without undesirable ingredients in the packaging.
Unrivalled for ten years: PVC- and plasticizer-free can seals
Consumers can recognize the innovation from the blue ring
on the inside of jar lids. Selected specialty food manufacturers
even advertise PROVALIN® on the label. This comes as no surprise,
because for ten years this ACTEGA brand has been the only
alternative to conventional PVC seals for metal vacuum closures.
The background: PVC contains plasticizers that can migrate into
the food and thus be harmful to human health. The PROVALIN®
product family from ACTEGA, however, is PVC- and plasticizer-free
and today offers suitable solutions for all types of bulk goods,
metal vacuum closures, and filling processes.
Large beverage producers, in particular, not only focus on the
quality of their products and having the ideal packaging, but
also want to conserve packaging material. This not only reduces
production costs but also protects the environment. And more
and more consumers are attaching importance to this. For decades,
therefore, the trend has been toward ever-thinner glass bottles.
However, reducing the amount of steel needed with thinner crown
caps long seemed to be an almost unattainable goal. Since the
American William Painter applied for a patent almost 130 years
ago, the principle of the crown cork has hardly changed. The
problem: Thinner crown caps deform more easily, for example
when bottles collide during transport.
But the experts at ACTEGA didn’t give up. Their solution:
a more efficient, softer, and more flexible seal. The result is a minor
revolution that makes each individual crown cork 0.4 grams
lighter. That doesn’t sound like much, but just one bottler saves
around 10,000 tons of steel from the 25 billion crown corks
produced each year. So the CO² footprint is improved almost
automatically, as less steel also means less energy and lower
transport costs. Almost all of the leading beverage brands have
switched to the ACTEGA solution.
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