Premium Beverage Packages for Paquito Fruit
Juices
"Paquito" brand premium fruit juices
are now conquering the French market with a new design relaunch: the Antarctic
company has migrated its fruity product range from the gable top package to the
aseptic combiblocPremium (1,000 ml) carton fitted with the combiTwist screw cap.
The transition process was preceded by an intense
market research phase during which the 1,000 ml volume combiblocPremium carton
achieved better consumer response compared to the gable top variant. Moreover,
the high satisfaction level at Antarctic with three already successfully
commissioned combibloc filling machines was a key factor in the decision process
to migrate to this modern packaging system from SIG Combibloc.
Full of energy
Antarctic is part of Intermarché, a retail chain
that operates 4,000 outlets across Europe and has a manpower strength of some
112,000 employees. Annual turnover stands at around 38.4 billion euros. In
addition to the points of sale, Intermarché operates more than 40 facilities
producing fruit juices, milk, mineral water, ice cream, fresh and deep-frozen
finished products, fish, meat products and canned items. Antarctic is one of
those many operations and produces 80 million litres of juice annually. The
company not only fills fruit juices, but also cereal-based products.
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About SIG:
SIG is a global supplier of packaging material, plant
systems and services for the beverage industry and a leader in selected markets.
The SIG Beverages Division is an internationally leading
manufacturer of plant systems for the production of plastic packaging as well as
complete solutions for the beverage industry.
SIG Corpoplast is an internationally leading supplier with
30 years of experience in the design, construction, sales and servicing of
machines and systems for producing PET bottles. The machine range comprises
stretch blow molding machines of the BLOMAX Series III with outputs of more than
40,000 PET bottles per hour and PLASMAX coating machines for enhanced barrier
properties, improved quality and longer shelf life of sensitive drinks in PET
bottles.
With its 6,671 employees, the SIG group generated sales of
about 1.7 billion euro in the fiscal year 2004.
