A single cap for still and fizzy water

Super 26/22 is the new 26-mm cap-neck combination developed by Sacmi and Sipa for bottling both still and fizzy water. Presented in mid April at Villa Marchetti in Baggiovara (Modena, Italy), the solution was developed particularly for the Italian market, where the need to efficiently serve both segments is combined with that of developing affordable ways to upgrade existing lines, providing a positive ROI in the short term and, more generally, greater flexibility of use to meet changing market demands.
In concrete terms, the new solution comprises a redesign of the bottle neck, cap and preform which, if adopted, will allow bottlers to use the same container for both still and fizzy water, while reducing the cost of raw materials thanks to a design that makes it possible to reduce the weight of both the cap and the bottle neck by 30-50%. Sacmi and Sipa now make this solution available to the Italian market with the objective of establishing a new standard.
According to Vezio Bernardi, general manager of the Sacmi Beverage Division, the large audience of specialists attending the presentation, including the participation of the major Italian bottlers, attests to "the great receptivity of the Italian market to truly meaningful innovations that represent added value both for the technology producer and for the bottler".