Sidel

Packaging Optimisation Tool

Now available on Sidel.com, Sidel’s new Packaging Optimisation Tool delivers an interactive experience where visitors can calculate packaging savings as a result of customisable scenarios. The tool offers a comprehensive range of levers such as bottle neck, body, and base changes, on top of the adoption of partial labels or the integration of recycled PET. As users play with possible shifts in these areas compared to their current production, they see the changing savings per year – both in costs and GHG emissions.

Vincent Le Guen, VP Packaging, Moulds and Line Solutions, shares “Rising and dynamic costs of PET are a significant challenge for customers, and every opportunity to optimise the package weight helps, both for their bottom line, and their sustainability goals.”

Joint savings in costs and GHG emissions

Achieving savings and sustainability targets is possible by making important choices, and producers can achieve significant PET savings through lightweighting and optimising their packaging design, with reductions such as up to 40% less bottle neck weight, 35% body weight reduction, and 20% in the bottle base. 

Sidel experts smoothly assist with the best line conversions and moulds to meet requirements, following comprehensive packaging feasibility and performance qualifications. The investment quickly pays for itself in savings on PET, while benefitting from a lighter carbon footprint.

High performance technology

Beyond packaging design itself, producers can go even further with state-of-the-art technology for additional savings. Redefining lightweighting, the EvoBLOW Laser brings an additional 10% lightweighting on average without sacrificing performance. Sidel’s newest partial label roll-fed labelling solution can deliver labels with up to 75% material reduction, and the EvoFilm Stretch secondary packaging solution reduces plastic film by 50%1. These technologies make additional savings possible, to stay competitive and contribute to sustainability.

From the beginning

Historically, Sidel has been leading the way with solutions to reduce raw materials in packaging and promote circularity. The first to industrialise blowing for PET packaging, its company name translates to “Industrial Company of Light Packaging” (from Société Industrielle Des Emballages Légers in French).

Jerome Neveu, Packaging and Moulds Product Manager concludes by encouraging visitors to try the tool for themselves “This new online calculator is flexible, interactive, easy to use, and freely available, helping create awareness of what is possible for cost savings and advancing sustainable packaging.”