PET wine bottle is an airline first.A New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. PET bottle maker has developed what it says is the airline industry's first PET wine bottle with a shelf life of 12 months. The 187-cc bottle, developed by Linkplas in Auckland for Montana Wines Montana Wines is New Zealand's largest wine company, owning vineyards in Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough, and Waipara. History Montana was founded by a Croatian immigrant, Ivan Yukich ( Jukić ), who planted his first vines in 1934 in the Waitakere Ranges west of , weighs just 33 g vs. 154 g for the glass version. Air New Zealand Parameter not given Error... ''Template needs its first parameter as beg[in], mid[dle], or end. Parameter not given Error... achieves weight savings of more than 2 tons a day on its flights to and from Australia. Other airlines are expected to use the PET bottle later this year, according to Steve Morrison, Linkplas managing director. The stretch-blown bottle was produced on an Aoki single-station machine (sold here by Aoki Laboratory America, Inc., Elk Grove Village Elk Grove Village, village (1990 pop. 33,429), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1956. With a population of c.100 at the time of its establishment on open farmland, the village has grown dramatically and steadily, largely because of its , Ill.). The bottle shape is a modified version of the glass bottle and can run on standard filling lines. It is considerably heavier than similar-size PET bottles in order to maintain a glass-like appearance and withstand 150-kg topload pressure when the aluminum cap is fitted. In addition, a minimum wall thickness is necessary to provide adequate barrier. Morrison declined to disclose the barrier technology but said the monolayer mon·o·lay·er n. 1. A film or layer one molecule thick formed at the interface between water and either oil or air by a substance such as a partially esterified fatty acid that contains both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups in the same bottle was manufactured utilizing a proprietary processing technique that optimizes the oxygen barrier of PET. Linkplas: +64 9-444-3691/www.linkplas.com * Aoki: (888) 638-2323/PTDirect: 662KH [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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