Petainer Innopac Packaging, has collaborated with Pune Mineral Water Association to launch the petainerCooler, a high quality 20L bulk Jar for the mineral water industry, which significantly improves the quality, consumer safety, increases strength & life cycles, reduces waste and drives significant supply chain gains (estimated economic savings of up to 30-40%). This collaboration will bring this game changing PET packaging solution for the water industry in Pune, with improved sustainability.
The Pune Mineral Water Association has 85 brands under its umbrella, out of which approximately 55 brands use the 20 litre bulk water jars. Based on the mutual understanding, the members have agreed to launch the petainerCooler Jar for the Pune market to promote healthy, sustainable and safe drinking water for the consumers. Petainer Innopac Packaging provide customers with high quality, high performance and sustainable PET/plastics packaging solutions using the company’s advanced polymer engineering technology.
With this alliance Pune Mineral Water Association moves further in its continuous efforts towards consumer safety. The good looking and rigid petainerCooler will be out in the Pune market in February.
Pune Mineral Water Association has also offered warehousing space to Petainer Innopac for local storage. This will facilitate immediate answer to any demand for the product.
Vijay Singh Dubbal, President of Pune Mineral Water Association said, “The association constantly works towards reaching out and bringing to the members latest world class technologies which improve the quality of our packaging and makes our water safer for the consumers.”
Talking about this new collaboration, Atit Bhatia, Managing Director, Petainer Innopac Packaging, said, “We are very pleased with this association and look forward for working closely with our new Pune customers to deliver on our promise.”
Key features of the 20 Litre bulk petainerCooler jar:
- the lightest 20 litre container weighing 627gms
- meets the Indian BIS Standards and also meets migration test as per IS12252 and IS9845
- high temperature resistance up to 63 degree Celsius (normal PET container can resist 43-45 degree Celsius).
- Reduced shrinkage rates and also more UV resistant when exposed to sun.
- Free from BPA (an element that has harmful health effects on humans and is banned in countries like France etc).
- stronger and robust compared to local PET and polycarbonate jars
- high reusability up to 60 trips (standard PET – 15 trips and polycarbonate jars – 40 trips)
- lower total cost of ownership – down by 30-40%.
- customizable and imparts no flavour to drinking water.
Petainer Innopac Packaging is a joint venture between Petainer UK Holdings and Innopac Containers. The company manufactures high quality, high performance and sustainable PET/plastics packaging solutions. The company has its head office in Delhi and has recently launched its manufacturing unit in Mumbai. The manufacturing hub uses preforms made by Petainer in Europe and is equipped with world class blow molding equipment to provide better and on time deliverables to the market.
Another key product is petainerKeg, which reduces transport costs and environmental impact without impacting taste for manufacturers of beer and wine etc.