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February 4, 2008
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A collaboration between Concord, MA-based juice maker Welch’s and Amcor
PET Packaging proved fruitful last year with the launch
of Welch’s six-variety 100% juice line in a 14-oz custom PowerFlex™ PET
bottle from Amcor.
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Providing a smooth, panel-less design, the gently contoured bottle bears a full-body shrink label bursting with colorful fruit graphics that appear ripe for the picking.“We were looking for a bottle that was upscale and would attract more consumers to the premium, 100% juice line,” says Welch’s senior engineer Stratos Dimas. “It had to be very smooth with no bumps so that it could accommodate a full-body label. It also had to be hot-fillable, attractive, and easy to hold.”The Welch’s bottle represents the first custom application of the PowerFlex design, formerly available only in stock 16-oz longneck and 16.9-oz dome-shouldered designs. As Amcor explains, patented PowerFlex technology uses a unique diaphragm within the bottle base that draws upward during liquid cooling, absorbing the vacuum created during the hot-fill process. Several iterations of the PowerFlex bottle were designed for Welch’s, which wanted a new single-serve size that was narrower, slimmer, and taller than its other PET and glass containers.Lending a premium appearance to the shapely bottles, brilliant graphics were designed to adorn full-body PET-based labels, which are gravure-printed in eight colors by American Fuji Seal.Available in convenience stores and in club-store multipacks, the juice has an average retail price of $1.25 to $1.50 per bottle. —Anne Marie Mohan
Providing a smooth, panel-less design, the gently contoured bottle bears a full-body shrink label bursting with colorful fruit graphics that appear ripe for the picking.“We were looking for a bottle that was upscale and would attract more consumers to the premium, 100% juice line,” says Welch’s senior engineer Stratos Dimas. “It had to be very smooth with no bumps so that it could accommodate a full-body label. It also had to be hot-fillable, attractive, and easy to hold.”The Welch’s bottle represents the first custom application of the PowerFlex design, formerly available only in stock 16-oz longneck and 16.9-oz dome-shouldered designs. As Amcor explains, patented PowerFlex technology uses a unique diaphragm within the bottle base that draws upward during liquid cooling, absorbing the vacuum created during the hot-fill process. Several iterations of the PowerFlex bottle were designed for Welch’s, which wanted a new single-serve size that was narrower, slimmer, and taller than its other PET and glass containers.Lending a premium appearance to the shapely bottles, brilliant graphics were designed to adorn full-body PET-based labels, which are gravure-printed in eight colors by American Fuji Seal.
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