Short-height neck finish

The SuperShorty PCO 1881 is a 28-mm closure designed for a short-height PET neck finish. The co. describes the development as providing weight savings in the PET preform and the closure as well as offering an attractive closure design for single-serve bottles. The closure fits on the new short-height neck standard PCO 1881, which has been recently agreed upon within the International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT). SuperShorty is available with two different external designs: a crown look; and a soft-drink look. The crown design targets PET beer bottles and soft-drink bottles in smaller package sizes. Both closure variants can be equipped with an in-shell, molded oxygen-scavenging liner for oxygen-sensitive products like beer or juices. The SuperShorty incorporates the co.'s DoubleSeal system, which has proven its superior sealing performance over the last years. The shorter-height neck PCO 1881 generates weight savings of 1.3 gm compared to the PCO 1810 or the PCO28. The co. adds that the closure can offer weight savings of 0.4 gm for the crown design and 0.6 gm for soft-drink design. The co. began supplying the SuperShorty closure in early 2007. The co. says that it offers capper adaptation and settings as well as technical support from its factory and its own hysteresis capping head for easy and constant application.

Bericap Holding GmbH,909/390-5518. 
www.bericap.com