What makes NoBottle™ work?
The lightweight bottle’s creation, mass production, and its ultimate durability are an engineering triumph. Our Research and Development (R&D) teams responded to the challenge with:
Flex™ technology: putting strength in flexibility
Until now, making a lighter plastic bottle involved adding ribs to give the bottle more strength. But the added stability made the bottle more brittle and less attractive. To create NoBottle™, Sidel thought outside the box and developed its Flex™ technology, combining:
- The flexibility of PET (polyethylene terephthalate, the most widely used plastic to make bottles for beverages) to create a more elastic bottle that flexes instead of breaking,
- PET shape memory so that the filled bottle springs back to its original shape even when squeezed and compressed during manufacturing or shipping,
- Shape freedom: Flex™ offers a wide range of shapes and designs. NoBottle™ currently presented by Sidel is just one of myriad design possibilities.
FlexLine customized production line
Packaging a bottle this light is no easy task when every step in the manufacturing process presents a challenge. So we developed the customized FlexLine that guarantees flawless packaging of NoBottle™ on a line that is:
- Environmentally friendly, consuming less energy, water and raw materials during manufacturing, and
- A sound economic investment for companies, producing bottled water faster and at lower cost.
