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How to Keep your Sparkle!
Fizzy drinks that keep their fizz

You lose around 15 percent of the fizz and sparkle (carbon dioxide) from a regular plastic drinks bottle in just twelve weeks from bottling.  This effects the taste, the experience and the shelf-life and the CO2 simply permeates away through the packaging, even with materials like PET.

Versaperm's vapour permeability measurement equipment is a simple solution to help you solve this problem for any bottle, carton, keg or can.

The answer to the issues of both flavour and shelf-life is to understand the precise permeability of the finished bottle. You can control this with the equipment by making changes at the design stage and keeping tabs on all of manufacturing quality control tolerances which change during production. 

The design stage allows you to find or develop the best material, including multi-layer "designer" materials for your precise product – and different drinks need different materials.   Ginger ale, for example, has almost twice the carbonation of most colas, beer is different again. The quality control stage allows you to identify the inevitable drift of materials, cap fittings and material thicknesses away from specification – allowing you to prevent problems before they even happen. 

The Versaperm equipment is fast, accurate in the parts per million range and allows you to measure the permeability of each component either separately, or as a complete and filled bottle, can or carton.  Pressure and temperature can also be controlled. Due to changes during the manufacturing process, a container may be only a quarter as effective a barrier as the material was in its flat form!

Technical note: In beer, carbonation depends on extra factors. Most common beers are carbonated by forcing CO2 into the liquid but microbrews are often carbonated by the brewer's yeast and sugar.

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