31/08/2006 - Amcor has taken out a license to bottle wine using Constar International’s oxygen-scavenging polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

Amcor’’s decision to produce the PET bottle for customers in Australia and New Zealand provides a major boost to Constar’s bid to market its oxygen-scavenging packaging to a wider range of drink makers. Amcor is one of the world’s largest packaging companies, with annual sales of about €6.5bn and 217 plants located in 34 countries.Philadelphia-based Constar has developed materials that when blended with PET, binds oxygen, thus preventing the degradation of products such as juices, teas and flavoured water…

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