Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Enlists Sidel to Help with Bottle Adjustments
When Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) took the decision to introduce tethered caps for its PET bottles to boost collection and recycling and prevent litter, Sidel utilized its expertise in this field to support CCEP with the transition. Required to implement the changes by July 2024 in line with single-use plastic (SUP) law, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners also identified the opportunity to move to a more sustainable package, working with Sidel to switch to a lighter neck for its carbonated soft drinks (CSD) plastic bottles.
Sidel and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners share a strong historical partnership, having collaborated for over 30 years at a global group level across multiple projects in equipment, packaging development and supporting services. CCEP’s introduction of attached caps and the implementation of a new, lighter neck, with a 1 gram saving, provided numerous technical challenges relating to the correct selection of preforms and caps, as well as the right technical equipment configurations to switch across all its existing PET packaging lines in Europe.