Fizzy Science -
Losing your drink's fizz could deflate your business

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Losing the fizz from your drinks harms both its taste and its shelf-life and within twelve weeks a plastic bottle can lose up to 15 percent of its carbon dioxide sparkle.   Versaperm is a leader in the technology battle to measure and overcome this.

The solution is using Versaperm's latest range of equipment to measure and understand the vapour permeability of the finished bottle, cap, carton or can during both the design and the manufacturing control stages.  The measurement allows you to find or develop the best materials for your specific drinks (because different drinks can require different permeabilities). For example, colas only have around half the carbonation of ginger ale and different laminated products need to be used to optimise their containers.

Due to changes during the manufacturing process, a container may be only a quarter as effective a barrier as the material in a flat form! During manufacture there is an almost inevitable drift of materials away from specification, which means you need to quality control the vapour permeability of your materials and containers to stop problems before they start. 

Versaperm's specialised equipment is fast, simple to use, accurate and can measure the permeability of any component either separately, or as a complete and finished bottle, can or carton.  The system measures to an accuracy that can be measured in Parts Per Million (PPM) and is particularly important for both new product development and quality control.

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Please send any sales enquiries to Christopher Roberts, Versaperm Limited ,
10 Rawcliffe House, Howarth Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1AP, UK, Tel: +44 1628 777668,
e.mail info@versaperm.co.uk Web http://www.versaperm.co.uk

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