Filling technology for beer in plastic bottles Oxygen pick-up is crucial
All the indications are there that the beer market, both national and international, will in the medium term enter a phase in which the sales of beer in plastic bottles (including the smaller-volume sizes) will assume ever-greater significance. According to independent sources, 3.5% of worldwide beer sales may already be being filled in PET containers by 2005. The state-of-the-art of the according technology is described in this article.
Plastic bottles for beer have both advantages and disadvantages. Chief among the former are their low weight, their robustness, their flexible design options, their transparency and their dimensional accuracy.
Plastic bottles cannot, moreover, be heated up too far, i.e. they cannot in general be pasteurised either...
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