It’s not just the massive investments made by Nestle in Anderson, IN; HP Hood in Sacramento, CA; and SunOpta in Modesto, CA. New twists on technology have also surfaced.
The so-called “dry” decontamination approach from Sidel is but one example. Using vaporized hydrogen peroxide to sterilize PET preforms instead of the more conventional use of hydrogen peroxide to sterilize blown bottles saves huge amounts of rinse water and minimizes the amount of hydrogen peroxide required. The cover story in the upcoming November issue of Packaging World describes how a dairy in France became one of the first to commercialize Sidel’s Predis technology. Byrne Dairy in Syracuse, NY, is weeks away from shipping ESL milk in PET bottles produced on the Predis system.
