krones Lightweighting

The fitness regime for high-performance PET bottles

Low weight, low costs

Perfect job sharing: Krones is put- Every gramme counts

ting its PET bottles on a diet - and What difference can one gramme
allowing you to benefit from con- more or less make?
siderable cost savings as a result. A practical example proves that it
Regardless of whether you would can really make all the difference!
like to slim down an existing design
or drastically change your bottle’s The task:
appearance: with Krones, you can ■■ To reduce the weight of a 0.5 litre
take the direct route to reach your bottle weighing 15 g.
goal. How is this possible? Krones ■■ The bottle is run on three lines,
designers are specialists in the field each with a speed of 36,000
of lightweighting and are guaran- containers per hour, a production
teed to whip any bottle into pre- time of 5,000 hours per year and
mium shape. an overall equipment effective-
ness of 75 %

The result:
A saving of ...
■■ 3 g per bottle – with a consistent
quality and processability
■■ € 1,822.500 per year (using PET
costing € 1,500 € per tonne)
This is possible: PET bottles in tip-top shape

PET lite 9.9 carbonated: Design features

Bubbly on the inside, light as a ■■ Striking shape Advantages
feather on the outside ■■ Ring-pull closure ■■ Also makes lightweight con-
■■ Winner of the iF packaging tainers that are suitable for
Dimensions design award 2014 carbonated beverages
■■ Capacity: 0.5 l ■■ Can be fully recycled
■■ Total weight: 9.9 g ■■ High machine output pos-
■■ Neck finish: 2.5 g sible
■■ Can also be pressurised us-
ing innovative direct pres-
Technology sure technology
Krones Contiform 3:
■■ Produces up to 81,000 bottles per
hour
■■ Is suitable for a great variety of
container shapes and sizes
■■ Saves energy and recycles com-
pressed air
■■ Can be converted quickly and
easily to other containers
Vorteile
This is possible: PET bottles in tip-top shape

A square deal: the bottle for the Design features Advantages

Contiform Asept Bloc ■■ Innovative design ■■ Is perfectly suited for asep-
■■ Square bottle cross-section
tic filling
Dimensions ■■ Round cross-section in the ■■ Reduces material consump-
■■ Capacity: 0.5 l middle of the bottle to ensure tion
■■ Total weight: 12.5 g optimum handling ■■ Can be fully recycled
■■ Neck finish: 3 g

Technology
The Contiform Asept Bloc:
■■ Blow moulds, fills and seals con-
tainers in a continuous sterile
chain of sequences.
■■ Does not shrink the bottle dur-
ing sterilisation and is therefore
suitable for reduced-weight con-
tainers
■■ Only consumes a small amount
of sterilisation medium as it ster-
ilises the preform, not the bottle
■■ Sterilises with particularly pro-
ductive hydrogen peroxide steam
This is possible: PET bottles in tip-top shape

NitroHotfill 15.5: hot filling without Design features Advantages

compromising on design ■■ Straight, slim design ■■ Opens up a completely new
■■ Vacuum panels omitted
freedom of design due to
Dimensions the omission of the vacuum
■■ Capacity: 0.5 l
panels
■■ Total weight: 15.5 g ■■ Allows for considerable sav-
■■ Neck finish: 4.2 g
ings in the amount of PET
material and flushing air
Technology used
■■ Filling with Krones
NitroHotfill procedure:
–– Bottle is pressurised with
nitrogen after filling
–– Increased bottle internal pres-
sure compensates for the
shrinking behaviour – and
therefore makes the unattrac-
tive vacuum panels on the
bottle unnecessary
–– Suitable for filling tempera-
tures of up to 87 °C
On the road to the perfect Bottle Mass Index

If you want to lose weight, you

Structured elements for
have got to do it right: Reducing the
Thinner walls more stability
weight of bottles is a tricky busi-
ness. For even minor changes can
Improved neck geometry for
have unpleasant implications for
optimal material distribution
the bottle’s processability. There-
fore, lightweighting means more
than just cutting off a few grammes.
Behind lightweighting lies a com-
plex design process which uses ideal
material distribution to save weight
and achieve quality.

Neck finish and cap:

smaller/thinner
Reduced-weight
Higher stack load base
using an adapted
shoulder design
Personal training for branded products

Just imagine you have lost weight

and nobody notices. A wonderful
idea - at least where beverage bot-
tles are concerned. For they should
be sturdy and fit perfectly in your
hand. This should also be the case
once they lose weight. Just as well
that Krones designers are experi-
enced professionals when it comes
to bottle anatomy. As a result, they
can also find areas where a gramme
or two can be shifted on contain-
ers in the high-price segment. This
weight loss is unnoticeable on the
bottle itself - but is extremely vis-
ible when you take a look at your
budget.

A workout which only has visible re-

sults on the scales. The bottle’s stability
and its feel both remain the same.
Design that works

A lot of things only look good on Benefits to you: KRONES design

paper. Krones containers also ■■ Creative design combined
shape up well in both production with technical feasibility
and sales. The secret: In our com- ■■ Groups together all of the
pany, marketing professionals, process steps under one
designers and engineers all work roof: from the initial design
together as a team. The result: An concept to the production
exceptional design that is easy on bottle
your line yet still expresses your ■■ Guarantees that the bottle
brand personality. A fact that will can be both produced and
make both your customers and your processed in an optimum
production managers happy! way
■■ Allows smooth coordination
between machine technol-
ogy and bottle design
 We do more.
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