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Top 10 Articles of 2022 – No. 10: Coca-Cola, Suntory Cross the 100% Plant-Based Bottle Finish Line

Join us as we look back at ProFood World’s most popular articles of 2022. At No. 10 is an update on 10+ years of R&D efforts to develop beverage bottles made from 100% bio-based PET.

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In the Packaging Technology section of ProFood World’s June 2022 issue, a report from Packaging World’s Anne Marie Mohan updated us on developments in plant-based bottles. After more than a decade of rigorous R&D work and significant investments with their respective partners, Coca-Cola and Suntory each unveiled first-of-their-kind beverage bottle prototypes made from 100% bio-based PET.

Since 2009, when The Coca-Cola Company announced the launch of the first PET bottle made partially from plants, the race has been on among beverage brands to crack the code on developing a commercially viable, 100% bio-based PET bottle with the same functionality as a petroleum-based bottle. Earlier attempts by other drinks companies to use bioplastics— specifically corn-based polylactic acid—for beverage bottles had proven disappointing, as the material lacked stability and contaminated PET recycling streams. So, when Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle, made partially from a “drop-in” bioplastic having identical properties to virgin PET, including recyclability, came on the scene, it was a game-changer.

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