WORLDSTAR 2008: BERICAP’s SuperShorty® Awarded by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO)
18 November 2008
BERICAP received a “WorldStar 2008” from the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) for its SuperShorty®.
Two OSCARS from the French Packaging Institute in November 2007, won in the optimisation of packaging performances in production and environment categories, entitled BERICAP to participate at this year’s WorldStar tender.
At the beginning of 2007, BERICAP introduced its SuperShorty closure system, suitable to the short neck PCO 1881. Protecting the environment by reducing the usage of non-renewable resources, whilst saving costs at the same time, is the performance BERICAP offers to its customers, along with safety and security. This combination convinced the jury of the WPO to award the BERICAP closure system, SuperShorty.
A change from PCO 1810 to PCO 1881 reduces the weight of the entire package. In case of a CSD package, the neck weight is reduced from 5.05g to 3.82g. The total weight saving adds up to more than 2g for neck and closure. At the same time, such a reduction in resin supports all efforts to save non-renewable resources and to reduce the output of CO2 (carbon footprint).
The design of the SuperShorty Crown and the SuperShorty CSD ensures save venting on 2.5l bottles filled with up to 4.5% volume CO2. Even unscrewing the closure with excessive speed showed no blow-off problem. All SuperShorty variants are equipped with the well-proven DoubleSeal™ system for safe sealing also under hot climate conditions.
SuperShorty was primarily available in CSD for carbonated soft drinks and in Crown design for beer. Meanwhile, the SuperShorty product range has been enlarged with SuperShorty Eco as a low weight alternative to SuperShorty CSD for carbonated water and carbonated drinks. SuperShorty Still for still drinks and variants for aseptic and for hot fill application complete the product program. In addition, SuperShorty has been perfected to ensure proper rinsing after wet and dry decontamination in aseptic filling lines.
