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First PET, pasteurizable

In England, Coors Brewing Co. has launched Reef, a vodka-based fruit drink, in a three-layer plastic barrier bottle that’s fully pasteurizable.

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Made of KoSa (Houston, TX) PET resin specially designed to withstand pasteurization temperatures, the bottle is believed to be the first commercially successful pasteurizable PET bottle. The 330-mL (11.15-oz) bottle weighs 32.5 g and is coinjection stretch/blow molded by UK Petplas Packaging, a division of Pechiney Plastic Packaging (Chicago, IL).

“The bottle doesn’t distort when heated,” says David Wiggins, head of packaging at Golden, CO-based Coors. “Now that we can provide our product in plastic bottles, we can introduce our beverages to venues where glass can be a problem.”

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