Hardly any friction losses: Echovai and stability

Reusable glass containers are among the most sustainable and environmentally friendly types of packaging available. Their weight and stability were previously considered to be the only challenges with glass bottles. With Echovai, Vetropack has now become the world's first manufacturer of glass packaging to develop a solution that significantly improves these aspects.

Daniel Egger – Head of Innovation at Vetropack:

Echovai bottles are a particularly robust and material-saving kind of lightweight glass bottle – and therefore particularly suitable for reuse: they weigh up to 30 percent less than standard reusable bottles. They are also significantly more resistant to scuffing – one of the main reasons why standard reusable bottles are eventually discarded for aesthetic reasons. "Echovai bottles are a superior solution both economically and ecologically," Daniel Egger, Head of Innovation at Vetropack, emphasises. "It has the potential to really revolutionise the market for reusable glass containers."

What this means in concrete terms is proven both by pilot studies conducted by Vetropack and by the experiences of the first users. They show that with the same amount of use, bottles made of Echovai glass crack significantly less frequently than standard bottles. The difference is particularly clear when it comes to scuffing: even after twelve refill loops, most Echovai containers show hardly any wear on the contact surfaces.