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Petainer brings all the<br />
benefits of PET to the<br />
food industry with the<br />
new petainer jar<br />
etainer, the leading supplier of plastic<br />
packaging, has launched the petainer-<br />
Jar, a PET jar that offers significant<br />
cost and sustainability benefits over jars made from<br />
other materials. The new petainerJar can be<br />
supplied with short lead times either as a fully<br />
blown jar or as a PET wide mouth preform, ready<br />
to be blown by food manufacturers on their own<br />
premises as and when needed. This two stage<br />
process offers inbound freight savings of up to<br />
90%, and, significantly reduces costs.<br />
The petainerJar is more cost effective and<br />
sustainable than jars made from other materials<br />
because it weighs much less, which means more<br />
can be carried on a truck without breaching weight<br />
restrictions whilst making maximum use of the<br />
load space. In turn, this saves dramatically on<br />
freight costs and fuel consumption. Transporting<br />
jars in preform format improves environmental<br />
performance since many more can be transported<br />
in fewer shipments, further cutting down on road<br />
miles. Preforms additionally offer operational<br />
benefits because they require less storage space.<br />
Petainer manufactures the petainer Jar<br />
creating a highly engineered preform made from<br />
our PET blend that offers significant benefits over<br />
standard PET, including superior barrier technology<br />
for extended shelf life (if required), and maximised<br />
weight reduction in design saving materials, thus<br />
reducing costs. The PET petaine Jar is also made<br />
from material that is fully recyclable.<br />
The petainerJar is available in sizes ranging<br />
from 300ml to 7.6 litres, with standard neck sizes<br />
from 63 to 120mm, with the most prominent<br />
current sizes of 100mm, 110mm and 120mm.<br />
Petainer offers a portfolio of jars and is able to work<br />
with individual customers to create a range that<br />
meet their exact requirements.<br />
Petainer is already a well-established supplier<br />
of PET preform bottles, kegs and water coolers<br />
to the beverage industry. The addition of the<br />
petainerJar to its packaging portfolio means the<br />
multiple advantages of PET can now also be<br />
enjoyed by companies in the food industry.<br />
Annemieke Hartman-Jemmett, Group<br />
Commercial Strategy Director at Petainer, said: “The<br />
launch of the petainerJar is an exciting move for<br />
us and means we can bring our wealth of expertise<br />
into this part of the packaging market for the<br />
first time. Our new jars have so much going for<br />
them, and it’s our mission to ensure that as many<br />
food manufacturers as possible can enjoy these<br />
benefits.”<br />
She continued: “We know that food companies<br />
are concerned that their cash flow is<br />
severely impacted due to the long period taken up<br />
by production and logistics, which outside of<br />
Europe can take as much as 12 – 16 weeks. With<br />
petainerJar, whether supplied ready-blown or as<br />
a preform, we offer customers far shorter lead<br />
times, as well as a highly engineered quality<br />
product at a lower cost offering with improved<br />
sustainability, and, they are produced in Europe.”<br />
The petainerJar will make its official debut at<br />
the forthcoming FIBO <strong>2014</strong> exhibition, the leading<br />
international trade show for fitness, wellness and<br />
health. The petainerJar is perfect for products<br />
such as protein powders – making FIBO the ideal<br />
platform for launching the new packaging<br />
concept. The show took place in Cologne in April<br />
<strong>2014</strong>. The petainerJar is also suitable for a wide<br />
range of other food products, including coffee.<br />
Petainer supplies the petainerJar with<br />
varying levels of service, depending on a<br />
customer’s requirements, from a full service<br />
contract to delivery of the preforms only, providing<br />
a product and service package that will help<br />
food companies of all types and sizes to deliver<br />
their objectives.<br />
www.petainer.com<br />
Sensor breakthrough bridges the gap<br />
for packaging productivity<br />
ICK UK has announced the launch of the<br />
DeltaPac, the first ever photoelectric<br />
sensor able to detect individual packs on<br />
a conveyor without a gap between them. The<br />
DeltaPac will help production teams achieve high<br />
levels of accuracy and throughput speeds whilst<br />
reducing the risk of pile-ups and stoppages.<br />
“SICK DeltaPac is a true breakthrough in sensing<br />
for packaging applications using patented technology<br />
to eliminate the need to separate packs on<br />
a FMCG production line,” explains Phil Dyas, SICK<br />
UK’s industrial sensor specialist.<br />
“Up until now, a clear gap had to be left<br />
between packs in order for an<br />
optical sensor’s beam of light to be<br />
returned by the reflector positioned<br />
on the opposite side of the conveyor.<br />
“The DeltaPac differentiates<br />
between packs in a completely new<br />
way, detecting changes in their outline<br />
contours at speeds of up to 3<br />
m/s and 200,000 units an hour. The<br />
result is more reliable upstream<br />
process control and downstream<br />
accuracy for printing, labelling and<br />
palletisation.”<br />
The DeltaPac opens up new<br />
possibilities for the design of packaging machines.<br />
Pack buffering and separation mechanisms are no<br />
longer needed. The product flow is stabilised<br />
because collisions due to falling packages are<br />
reduced.<br />
The DeltaPac sensors can detect folded edges,<br />
rounded, radiused and faceted corner packages.<br />
The advanced background suppression technology,<br />
developed by SICK for many different sensors,<br />
ensures that glare, reflections, bright colours,<br />
changes in contrast and other potential distractions<br />
are ignored.<br />
Sick DeltaPac sensors are pre-configured for<br />
fast and simple ‘plug and play’ installation, and<br />
fault-free operation.<br />
The sensor’s patented technology uses light<br />
beams from four SICK PinPoint2.0 LEDs to track<br />
contours of packaging edges moved across them<br />
by the conveying line. Two sensors in stereo formation<br />
detect the change in reflected light angle<br />
caused by a package edge and send a switching<br />
signal to represent each gap. There is a leadingedge<br />
tolerance of +/- 15mm to allow for product<br />
position variations.<br />
The SICK DeltaPac is contained in a 42mm by<br />
42mm by 45mm IP67 housing, suitable for side or<br />
overhead mounting. The four LEDs<br />
and two energy sensors are controlled<br />
by SICK‘s advanced SIRIC® ASIC technology<br />
which has been one of the<br />
most significant recent developments<br />
in sensor software. The optional I/O<br />
link communication facilitates data<br />
communications with downstream<br />
operations as well as diagnostics and<br />
sensor optimisation.<br />
For more information on the new<br />
SICK DeltaPac multitask photoelectric<br />
sensor, please contact Andrea Hornby<br />
on 01727 831121 or email<br />
andrea.hornby@sick.co.uk.<br />
28 Innovations in Food Processing & Packaging | May <strong>2014</strong> | www.innovationsfood.com
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