PET plasma coating barrier system

Actis Coating

Actis® (Amorphous Carbon Treatment on Internal Surface) is the industry’s pioneering plasma coating technology that significantly increases PET barrier performance and product protection while enabling container lightweighting. Applied inside the bottle, its amorphous carbon barrier helps preserve product quality for oxygen sensitive and carbonated beverages through a simple, reliable and cost efficient process.

Increased product quality

Oxygen barrier	CO2 barrier	Water barrier	Functional barrier
Up to 30x higher	Up to 7x higher	Up to 5x higher	100%

Features

Up to 35% bottle lightweighting, reducing PET consumption
Significantly lower maintenance costs compared to other coating technologies
Long equipment lifetime with no major replacements over decades
Increased ability to meet seasonal demands thanks to extended shelf life
Fewer consumables using only one unique gas widely available
Lower units lost in storage thanks to extended product shelf life
Best payback time compared to other market alternatives

Simple coating process with a single coating layer, compared to up to three layers for other coating technologies
One unique coating gas - industrial acetylene - widely available with local sourcing
Only 5 process parameters to set, monitor and control from the HMI
50% less maintenance time with limited weekly activities - compared to other coating technologies
High production flexibility, enabled by simple recipe adaptation when changing SKUs, and a bypass option to run non‑coated bottles on the same line

Carbonated beverages: up to 5 times longer shelf life; Beer: up to 7 times
Oxygen sensitive beverages (juices, tea, coffee, edible oil…): up to 30 times longer shelf life
Up to 35% PET material savings
Water vapour barrier improved by up to 5 times - helping prevent product level decrease and bottle shrinkage caused by vacuum effects
Beverage taste and functions preserved
Food safety approved worldwide, including compliance with the FDA

Homogeneous coating treatment
Stable, controlled coating process, even in varying temperature and humidity
Coated bottles compatible with sterilising applications
Embedded inspection and self‑regulation, ensuring consistent coating quality
Laser coding after the coating enabling full traceability and diagnostics
Standalone or integrated combi configurations, including blowing and coating, or blowing, coating and filling
Available for up to 60,000 b/h
Integration with EvoBLOW Laser available

Proven bottle and coating quality with 100% rPET
Certified recyclability (APR, EPBP, PETCORE, Japan local authorities)

Low total cost of ownership
Unique operational simplicity
Less weight, more protection
High performance
Designed for circularity

Low total cost of ownership
Unique operational simplicity
Less weight, more protection
High performance
Designed for circularity

Low total cost of ownership

Up to 35% bottle lightweighting, reducing PET consumption
Significantly lower maintenance costs compared to other coating technologies
Long equipment lifetime with no major replacements over decades
Increased ability to meet seasonal demands thanks to extended shelf life
Fewer consumables using only one unique gas widely available
Lower units lost in storage thanks to extended product shelf life
Best payback time compared to other market alternatives

Unique operational simplicity

Simple coating process with a single coating layer, compared to up to three layers for other coating technologies
One unique coating gas - industrial acetylene - widely available with local sourcing
Only 5 process parameters to set, monitor and control from the HMI
50% less maintenance time with limited weekly activities - compared to other coating technologies
High production flexibility, enabled by simple recipe adaptation when changing SKUs, and a bypass option to run non‑coated bottles on the same line

Less weight, more protection

Carbonated beverages: up to 5 times longer shelf life; Beer: up to 7 times
Oxygen sensitive beverages (juices, tea, coffee, edible oil…): up to 30 times longer shelf life
Up to 35% PET material savings
Water vapour barrier improved by up to 5 times - helping prevent product level decrease and bottle shrinkage caused by vacuum effects
Beverage taste and functions preserved
Food safety approved worldwide, including compliance with the FDA

High performance

Homogeneous coating treatment
Stable, controlled coating process, even in varying temperature and humidity
Coated bottles compatible with sterilising applications
Embedded inspection and self‑regulation, ensuring consistent coating quality
Laser coding after the coating enabling full traceability and diagnostics
Standalone or integrated combi configurations, including blowing and coating, or blowing, coating and filling
Available for up to 60,000 b/h
Integration with EvoBLOW Laser available