Packaging, printing, and speciality solutions provider, Klöckner Pentaplast is set to unveil its newly developed clikPET PET-based technology for yogurt packaging.
clikPET has full polystyrene functionality, and gas and water vapour barrier properties, in addition to being transport shock-resistant.
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Incorporated in clikPET, the qualities have increased its shelf-life up to ten days.
Klöckner Pentaplast EMEA and Asia development packaging and specialties group director Rainer Schlicht said: "Competition in the dairy industry is fierce. That’s why customer orientation is key.
"We need to walk in our customers’ shoes, anticipating what they need and desire in dairy tomorrow.
"This helps us to develop innovative solutions, such as clikPET, today that offer our customers a substantial competitive edge for the market of tomorrow."
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By GlobalDataThe company expects to unveil clikPET at Propak Africa 2016, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Schlicht also added: "Allowing a longer self-life, as well as avoiding breaking cups during distribution, the new innovation contributes to Klöckner Pentaplast’s support of the initiative SAVE FOOD."
The new packaging solution can be processed on standard FFS lines without investments and helps customers to develop a packaging design according to their brand’s and product’s benefits, the company claimed.
Klöckner Pentaplast EMEA and Asia marketing, packaging and specialties director Stuart Ball said: "clikPET offers new possibilities for packaging and product innovation in the yogurt market.
"The PET-based alternative to polystyrene offers opportunities to drive reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) whilst changing consumer perception with brand differentiation in a competitive environment."
The company said that the new PET-based technology can be used on key FFS lines, seals, labels and trays.
