Sidel celebrates 40 years of blowing & packaging expertise for PET

Forty years ago, Sidel launched its first commercial blower to produce PET bottles for the beverage industry. Since then, the company has been supplying and pioneering innovative PET packaging solutions for the beverage and the food, home, and personal care (FHPC) markets to meet the growing and fast-changing consumer demands. Through its extensive PET packaging and engineering expertise, combined with unique package design and blowing process capabilities, Sidel has been strongly supporting the market in the use of PET and will continue to do so as PET is the optimal sustainable material for packaging. In 1980, Sidel introduced the world’s first commercial production solution to package beverages in PET – the SBO blower (In French – Soufflage Bi-Orienté – meaning Bi-oriented blowing) for carbonated soft drinks (CSD). The company has driven many performance improvements in PET bottling technology that cover all beverage and FHPC categories, achieving considerable advances in complete lines’ productivity ever since.   Guillaume Rolland, vice president for PET and Sensitive Products Portfolio at Sidel, explains the fundamental values that underpin the development…

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