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Bottled water market drives demand for lightweight plastic bottles

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2017-03-24

　　Consumers' love for plastic bottled water directly drives the market demand for such containers. Bottled water market drivers include population growth, increase in waterborne diseases, and insufficient tap water.

For safety reasons, some areas must boil water before drinking, but this process is inconvenient, time-consuming and energy-consuming, resulting in users being forced to choose bottled water.

At the same time, bottled mineral water is purified and added with dissolved minerals, which is more attractive to consumers who are highly health-conscious.

"In developing countries such as India and many countries in the Middle East, the demand for safe drinking water is very large, so these regions have become the target markets for many multinational bottled water manufacturers," said SharanRaj, an analyst at Technavio Packaging Research Company, which recently released a latest report-Global Plastic-based Packaging Market 2017-2020. "During the forecast period, the per capita consumption of bottled water will increase, which will drive the market demand for plastic packaging."

Weight issues

Lightweight, as a trend, involves the redesign of packaging materials to achieve weight reduction without sacrificing quality. The R & D team of plastic packaging suppliers has been committed to developing packaging that is both lightweight and easy to carry. Furthermore, reducing the weight of packaging materials and making structural improvements to packaging forms can also help suppliers reduce transportation costs.

Currently on the market, a 0.5-liter PET bottle weighs an average of 12 grams. The PET bottle made by Sidele weighs only 7.95 grams, which is 34% lighter than the traditional PET bottle, the maximum load performance is improved by 32%, and the raw materials can save 13 million US dollars per year.

"Lightweight PET bottles require less raw materials to produce. In turn, the recovery rate of such bottles has increased by 75%, and the energy consumption during production has decreased by 23%," Sharan said. "It also reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 26% and the amount of waste to landfill has decreased by more than 20%."

Manufacturers design PET water bottles in different ways to improve their barrier properties. Innovative technologies are constantly being developed and applied to improve impermeability and eliminate the risk of harmful substances entering these containers. One of the technologies is plasma coating, which is a protective layer coated on a PET film with a thickness of only 50 nanometers, but the bottle is still easy to recycle.

China's industrial adjustment five general plastics supply pattern changes

All plastic sheet products for food are qualified

China's industrial adjustment five general plastics supply pattern changes

All plastic sheet products for food are qualified

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