A PET wine bottle offers numerous advantages, from its recyclability and lightweight nature to its resemblance to traditional glass bottles. In collaboration with the Wegenstein winery, where the bottle is already in use, packaging specialist Alpla has developed such a PET bottle. The advantages are significant: The bottle can be entirely made from PET recycling material. Additionally, weighing only 50g, it is about one-eighth the weight of glass, purportedly reducing the CO2 footprint by up to 50% (when using recycled PET) and resulting in up to 30% cost savings.
The bottle is already available in white and green, with capacities of 0.75 and 1 liter. Additionally, the first wine bottled in Alpla's PET bottle, sourced from Wegenstein winery, is already on the market in Austria.
Large volumes planned
The manufacturer's plans are ambitious. The internationally active company aims to reach several million bottles by 2025. A significant advantage resulting from the close collaboration with Wegenstein during development is the practical testing and easy adaptability. The new bottle is compatible with standard screw caps and fits into common wine bottling systems. Since Wegenstein closely collaborates with the Rewe Group and processes over 20m liters of wine in regular years, widespread adoption can quickly reach large volumes.