Packaging of Fruit Juice
Traditionally, most beverages were packed in glass, This has many attractive features, not least that it is an excellent protective medium, but its overriding disadvantages are its weight an brittleness.
Despite this, high volume of juices are still packaged in glass, some of it multi-trip packaging.
The development of the board-polymer-aluminum packaged used to form in line boxes, which are packed aseptically has been perhaps the outstanding packaging development for beverages.
The pack provides an almost ideal combination of protection, minimal weight and economic size.
Another important packaging development area is plastic. Various plastics have been and continuous to be used: high and low density polyethylene (HDPE, LDPE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS) and various plastics.
These can be formed into bottles of conventional shape or fed into machines producing form-fill-seal packages, typically cups.
Packaging of Fruit Juice
