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40 Years of Weber Maschinenbau
Complete slicing and packaging lines
Survey on tethered caps
Consumers prioritise product safety
and user-friendliness
Tethered caps – closures that stay connected to the bottle when
opened and used – will become an everyday part of life for
consumers in the EU starting in July 2024. Sidel carried out a
survey to get a better understanding of consumers’ environmental
perceptions, their requirements for closures in general
and their opinions about these new tethered caps. Results show
that although participants agree that tethered caps contribute
to a greener perception of plastic bottles, a cap should mainly
guarantee product safety and user-friendliness.
The survey results show that 87% of participants agree that
plastic pollution harms the environment and that caps are a
part of it. Meanwhile, 67% of consumers are convinced that
changing their own behaviour in terms of waste sorting and
reduction can make a difference for a greener environment.
Interestingly, 45% of panellists realise tethered caps reduce
the risk of cap loss because they remain attached to the bottle,
therefore keeping them from getting dirty or lost. Only a
minority of respondents (26%) believe that tethered caps will
really help reduce plastic littering.
Digitalisation activities combined
Krones Ecosystem
Family-owned company Weber Maschinenbau is 40 years
old this year. From a small company in central Hesse, Germany,
the company has developed into a globally active
world market leader. Today, Weber is a strong partner for
the food industry. The company develops and produces
complete slicing and packaging lines for food processing,
in particular sliced meats and cheeses.
Since the company was founded, the entire product
range of high-tech machines has been manufactured
exclusively at five production sites in Germany. Weber
Maschinenbau operates at a total of 22 locations today
and also has a large number of sales and service partners
in its own network. This means that the system provider is
close to its customers all over the world.
Krones brings mechanical engineering and digitalisation
even closer together
In line with the one-stop-shop concept, Krones is now
bringing the fields of mechanical engineering and digitalisation
even closer together. Everything will take place
within the Krones Ecosystem, which will stretch over all
the Group’s new machines like an invisible dome and interlink
them at the data level.
The resulting line and production data will provide the
basis for using existing cloud services and other digital solutions
that Krones will be offering in future.
Sidel has conducted a survey on the consumer
perception of tethered caps (photo: Sidel)
Picture from left: Tobias Weber and Günther Weber share
the management of Weber Maschinenbau
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