Foods & Aerosols:
Coster’s Integrated Solution Model
for companies seeking innovations
in the Food Industry - Soda Water Market
By Dr. Alejandro García, CEO of Coster Packaging SA, Argentina
Beverage Companies wishing to
offer clients an
innovative packaging solution may now rely on Coster
to adopt aerosol technology.
Thanks to its “Integrated Solution Model”, Coster is able
to assist Clients with a singlesource solution, offering everything from packaging components to filling technology.
Product innovation in the
water market for personal
consumption has always been
tough challenge, how to differentiate and innovate a
product like drinking water?
Developers have been asking
this question for a long time,
coming up with innovative
ideas such as flavored water,
fancy bottle designs, new types
of cap-closures among others.
However, in the case of
sparkling water, the question
is coupled with one more
interesting variable: how to
preserve the product’s carbonation level over time after
the protective seal has been
removed?
The aerosol technology may
be well suited to respond to
these needs: aerosol valves
guarantee a perfect seal of the
product contained in the bottle
over time and after each usage.
Furthermore, by means of an
innovative dispensing system,
they provide customer’s a new
usage experience.
On the other hand, the aerosol
technology is, for companies
active in the beverages market,
to a large extent almost unknown
Above: the finished product Manaos soda-water, that use special single-piece
actuator designed for Aguas Manaos, used with a special high-throughput
Coster valve. The Manaos soda-water product is packaged in PET bottles
2
pressurized with CO ; the product is filled using an automated filling line
designed and built by Coster Group. The special actuator and valve are
manufactured in the Coster plant in Buenos Aires.
Left, a close-up of Manaos actuator.
AEROSOL VALVES
So far, companies willing to
innovate the packaging of
traditional sparkling beverages employing aerosol technology face a series of major
challenges, such as:
• Complexity of the aerosol
filling technology
• Assembly of a three
component pressurized
device (PET bottle, valve
and dispenser)
• Compliance with regulatio
in the Food Industry
• Dosage pattern
FILLING MACHINES
Leveraging on its extensive
technological know-how, 50years market proven experience
and leadership for developing
innovative solutions in the
Aerosol industry, Coster has
developed an “Integrated
Solution Model”, allowing
Clients willing to develop
new products in the form of
aerosols and/or innovating
their product portfolio with
new forms of delivery from
pressurized devices, to singlesource all machinery, components and know-how necessary
for employing aerosol technology for carbonated water.
This “Integrated Solution
Model” is supported by the
following pillars:
ACTUATORS FOR FOODS
• Complete product offer: aerosol valves, dispensing systems
and filling lines may all be
offered by Coster, the only
company in the Aerosol Industry with both machinery and
valves/actuators manufacturing capability. Thanks to strategic partnerships, specifically
designed PET bottles to comply
with may also be offered.
• Turn-key solutions: Coster
designs and installs the filling
line, assisting the Clients
during development and the
production phases.
• Technical assistance: due
to its know-how on both
components and filling lines,
Clients may rely on a unique
contact point.
gle solution provider. It enabled us to concentrate on
our core competencies, such
as marketing and distributing the product, while Coster
took care of the development,
implementation and production”, Mr. Orlando Canido, President of Refres Now.
Coster is successfully offering
its “Integrated Solution Model” also in other fields of
application, such as Pharmaceuticals, where it supports
Pharma Companies with no
prior experience in developing
aerosol-related products (e.g.
MDIs for asthma inhalers as
Coster introduced its aerosol
technology for carbonated
water firstly in Argentina,
thanks to a partnership with
Manaos. Later, it further enhanced the dispensing system,
marketing the product to an
other major Company such as
Refres Now: “Employing aerosol
techonolgy for carbonated
water has several advantages:
first of all, it preserves the
carbonation level along the
product´s life. This is major
a difference in comparison to
similar screw type systems.
Secondly, it avoids product
adulteration thanks to the
crimped hermetic closure of
the valve onto the bottle neck.
Thirdly, it gives Customers a
new usage experience and a
premium product which helps
to enrich our overall product
portfolio”, in Mr. Orlando
Canido´s, President of Refres
Now, words on Coster’s soda
water dispensing system.
Consumers are appreciating
the solution: in Argentina,
where Coster first marketed
the product, nearly 40 million
soda water 2 liter bottles
with an aerosol dispensing
system are being consumed
every year, with an ongoing
growing trend. “For us, it was
key to have Coster as a sin-
Top, the Coster Packaging S.A.
plant near Buenos Aires
(Argentina): Aerosol valve and
special actuator manufacturing.
Above and left, interior view
of the new moulding department.
Right, the section of EM/PET
high output aerosol valve
used for the Soda water.
well as Bag on Valve (BOV)
technology for the delivery
of saline solution and sun protective lotions all the way to
standard continuous aerosols
for Topical applications such
as burn and pain relievers and
anti fungal, among others).
There is potentially no limit
in the set of applications
which might take advantage
from the usage of the aerosol
technology. Coster is the right
partner to develop new product applications in the form
of aerosols or dispensing products from sealed pressurized
cans. 50 years of global renowned aerosol technology expertise at your disposal to help
your innovation pathway to
new forms of product delivery.