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Top award for C2C bottle
Date: 28/05/2010
A lightweight aluminium bottle made by Exal and Alcoa has won a diamond award at the 22nd annual DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. The resealable Coil-to-Can (C2C) aluminium bottle is made from a combination of Alcoa’s bottlestock sheet and Exal’s C2C manufacturing technology.
The DuPont Awards are the packaging industry’s longest running, independently judged competition, honouring packaging materials technology and service innovations.
Diamond Award winners are those determined to demonstrate excellence in innovation, sustainability and cost/waste reduction by the judges, comprised of global packaging executives, industry experts and consultants, and industrial designers. Exal/Alcoa was one of only two of the 160 entries to reach the diamond award standard.
“This year we focused the DuPont Awards program on the essential elements needed to drive breakthroughs in packaging. Innovative new developments, along with cost/waste reduction and improved sustainability, are what packaged goods companies and retailers are seeking to respond to consumer needs,” says Carolann Haznedar, global business and market director, DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers.
Exal’s C2C technology combines the manufacturing speed and lightweight of standard drawn and ironed aluminium beverage can technology with dynamic shaping technology that at one time was only available with heavier walled extruded aluminium containers. In the past, all aluminium bottles for the North American market had been made using impact extrusion-based technology.
C2C aluminium bottles made from bottlestock sheet weigh about 40% less than impact extruded aluminium bottles, and while the wall thickness of the C2C container is thinner than the wall of the impact extruded bottle, the C2C bottle is stronger in the areas of container deformation and burst strength. In addition, the benefit of less metal and a higher run speed offers a competitive price when compared to an impact extruded aluminium beverage bottle.
“We are pleased to be recognised with the DuPont Packaging Awards’ highest honour for our commitment to innovation, sustainability and cost improvement. It is a testament to the power of the true partnership we have with Alcoa. We are particularly proud of the creative, committed, hardworking “Coil to Can” operations team at Exal that made the lightweight bottle a commercial reality,” says Edward Martin, Exal business development director.
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