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Amcor Rigid Packaging created a 100% recycled PET wine bottle for Ron Rubin Winery’s Blue Bin line that launched this month. The partners say this is the first 750-milliliter, or standard size, premium wine bottle made from 100% rPET to be released in the United States.
The key reason the partners landed on this material is that “rPET has such a dramatically lower CO2 output in the production of the package versus glass,” according to Jonathan Jarman, marketing manager for Amcor’s spirits and wine group.
While Amcor developed the initial 100% rPET bottle specifically for Ron Rubin and it bears the winery’s logo, the company also created a generic mold that it can use for other wine brands as well, Jarman said.
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