Bottlers/fillers and glass manufacturers
WG chair:
To be elected - -
Participants:
Joint group bringing together glassmakers, brands/bottlers, and suppliers of glass containers, filling machine manufacturers, laboratories, and inspection and control machine manufacturers.
Scope:
Cap manufacturers wg1
WG chair:
Giuseppe MENCACCI - GUALA CLOSURES S.P.A.
Participants:
Group gathering exclusively manufacturers of ROPP metal screw caps, long and short.
Scope:
This group accompanies the development of documentation related to metal screw caps, guides, and data sheets. This documentation concerns among others the geometry of the caps and their respective applications mainly for glass neck finishes, but also for PET finishes, for still or carbonated liquids, in the beverages/food or pharmaceutical sectors.
Cap manufacturers wg1 and glass manufacturers wg3
WG chair:
Klaus DEMBSKI - BUNDESVERBAND GLASINDUSTRIE E.V. (Federal Association of the German Glass Industry)
Participants:
Joint group bringing together the glassmakers of the WG3 group (glass finishes), suppliers of glass bottles, manufacturers of metal caps (crowns, ROPP, etc.), as well as manufacturers of capping, filling, and control machines.
Scope:
This joint group aims to coordinate the production of documentation at the junction of glass container production and closure application. It accompanies the development of documentation for glass containers for different types of closures including, but not limited to, aluminum screw caps, crown caps, and their components (liners). This joint group also provides an opportunity for cap and liners manufacturers to open discussions on specific work items of the permanent glass groups
Cap manufacturers wg3
WG chair:
To be elected - -
Participants:
Group bringing together exclusively the manufacturers of crown caps.
Scope:
This group gathers exclusively crown caps manufacturers.
In the frame of an Ad Hoc/joint working groups, this below guide is under its responsibility:
- Guide N°4 - 26 mm CROWN CAPPING >>
Design for Recycling - Glass containers
WG chair:
Stefano CASSANO - FEVE (Federation of European manufacturers of glass containers)
Participants:
A joint group bringing together brand owners (users of glass bottles/ jars/ flacons), Glassmakers, Glass recyclers, and all experts involved in this domain (sorting machines, and so on)
Scope:
The aim of this group is to define the characteristics of a glass container so that it can be recycled. It will focus its activities on areas where consensus is difficult to reach, starting with the issue of opacity limits. Its conclusions will be communicated to the CEN working group responsible for the corresponding standard.
Flaconnage decoration
WG chair:
Lionel NIZAN - VERESCENCE FRANCE (MERS LES BAINS)
Participants:
Joint group bringing together glass flacons manufacturers, perfume makers and lacquer producers.
Scope:
This joint group aims to produce dedicated documentation on test methods related to decorative elements on glass flacons, primarily for the cosmetics and perfume sectors.
Flaconnage geometry
WG chair:
Lorenzo PASQUALI - BORMIOLI LUIGI S.p.A.
Participants:
Joint group bringing together glassmakers dedicated to flacon production, pump manufacturers, perfumers/brands, crimping and filling machine manufacturers.
Scope:
- Cetie 'GME'* neck finishes data sheets concerning glass crimping neck finishes (FEA), screw neck finishes, neck finishes for pumps and snap-on neck finishes, etc.
- All data sheets of the DT15 series, identifying tolerances and standard test methods applicable to molded glass flacons;
- Data sheets concerning critical visual defects of flacons, neck finishes nomenclature, etc.
- Guide of crimping recommendations.
Glass manufacturers plenary
WG chair:
Katharina KALKA - HEINZ GLAS GmbH & Co. KG aA GERMANY (KLEINTETTAU)
Participants:
Permanent group gathering exclusively the members glassmakers (Manufacturers of bottles, jars and flacons).
Scope:
This permanent group meets annually and devotes two days to reviewing all documents directly or indirectly related to glass packaging in the beverage/food (jars and bottles) as well as cosmetics and pharmaceutical (primarily vials) sectors.
The glass members are thus kept informed of the work and discussions arising from the various permanent or joint groups related to glass packaging.
Glass wg1+4
WG chair:
Arnaud JANIN - VERALLIA FRANCE
Participants:
Permanent group exclusively gathering glass members who manufacture bottles and jars, and responsible of a documentation dedicated to a wide range of work items related to the downstream production of glass packaging.
Scope:
This permanent group is dedicated to a wide range of topics downstream of the production of glass bottles and jars dedicated to the food and beverage industries:
- Surface treatments, marking, labelling;
- Testing methods (impact, headspace, internal pressure, etc.);
- Nomenclatures (of finishes, jars, bottles, and visual defects, etc.);
- Quality management (food and beverage safety, best practices, regulations).
Glass wg3
WG chair:
Niall MC GRATH - ENCIRC GLASS
Participants:
Permanent group gathering exclusively glass members, manufacturers of bottles and jars for the beverage and food industry, in charge of the neck finishes geometry.
Scope:
*Initiated by the glass industry in the 1960s, the acronym 'GME' stands for 'Glass Manufacturing Experimental'. The idea was that Cetie, as an unofficial standards body, would only publish 'experimental' data sheets, before submitting these to the official standards bodies. At the same time, in the USA, the acronym 'GME' was also used. As the original meaning was lost over time, this nomenclature for Cetie's glass finishes documents has been, later on, applied to the PET finish data sheets.
Guide - Synthetic stoppers on glass bottles
WG chair:
To be elected - -
Participants:
Joint group bringing together manufacturers of stoppers, glassmakers, manufacturers of filling and capping machines, laboratories, and manufacturers of inspection and control machines.
Scope:
HPC (home and personal care)
WG chair:
To be elected - -
Participants:
A joint group of plastic closure manufacturers, PET bottle & flacons manufacturers, bottlers dedicated to the home and personal care markets (HPC) , and manufacturers of injection, dispensing and capping machines.
Scope:
This working group is dedicated to developing industry voluntary standards for PET finishes and, where appropriate, complete sealing systems for home and personal care (HPC) markets.
The group develop also guidance and harmonised test methods to facilitate technical exchanges within the HPC PET packaging value chain.
This group is not active at the moment and may be reactivated depending on a member's request.
PET plenary
WG chair:
Alessandro FALZONI - SACMI IMOLA
Participants:
Joint group bringing together plastic cap manufacturers, PET bottle & preforms manufacturers, bottlers and injection, dispensing and capping machine manufacturers.
Scope:
This joint group is in charge of all GME data sheets ("Finish data sheets"), dedicated to the geometry of PET neck finishes and their related documents. These data sheets are related to finishes dedicated to the beverage industry (such as soft drinks, mineral water & wine), packaged in an aseptic environment and/or with nitrogen injection, and to the food industry (e.g. edible oils, vinegars, and sauces) and allowing to receive mainly plastic caps.
Reuse of food and beverages glass containers
WG chair:
Dr. Markus GRUMANN - MIHO INSPEKTIONSSYSTEME GMBH
Participants:
Joint group bringing together glassmakers, bottlers, suppliers of glass containers, manufacturers of filling and washing machines, laboratories, and manufacturers of inspection and control machines.
Scope:
Hygiene, cleaning, and sterilisation
- Bacteriological state and sterilisation;
- Residues of water and of washing products and of other dangerous content;
- Hygiene measures in the washing process, in the collection, storage, and transport;
- Detection, and ejection of foreign bodies.
- how the defects from the use (consumers, logistics) are detected and rejected;
- measures against defect creation on washing lines.
- Specific control points in the production of containers for reuse.
Revision guide n°1
WG chair:
Jean-Marie ARACIL - FEDERATION FRANCAISE DU LIEGE (FFL)
Participants:
Joint group bringing together manufacturers of stoppers, glassmakers, bottlers (wine) and suppliers of glass containers, manufacturers of filling and capping machines, laboratories, and manufacturers of inspection and control machines.
Scope:
Revision guide n°14
WG chair:
Crisóstomo-Joaquim RIBEIRO-FERREIRA - AMORIM CORK S.A.
Participants:
Joint group bringing together manufacturers of bar top stoppers (all materials), glassmakers, bottlers (spirits) and suppliers of glass containers, manufacturers of filling and capping machines, laboratories, and manufacturers of inspection and control ma
Scope:
This guide covers the technical characteristics of supplies, recommendations, good practices, and appropriate test methods implementations. This joint group develops the specifications and good practices to be implemented in order to obtain a corking that can be manually opened and re-stoppered by the consumer without requiring an opener. These will be limited to the application on glass bottles with stoppers whose sealing is ensured by the contact of the body of the stopper on the internal surface of the neck and completed with a capsule or an overcap sleeve. It potentially concerns the corking of all types of still liquids but is initially limited to alcoholic beverages for which the expertise is the most complete.
This guide doesn't cover the swing-top closure application.
Revision guidelines n°9
WG chair:
Jean-Michel RIBOULET - FEDERATION FRANCAISE DU LIEGE (FFL)
Participants:
Joint group bringing together manufacturers of stoppers, glassmakers, bottlers (beverages) and suppliers of glass containers, manufacturers of filling and capping machines, laboratories, and manufacturers of inspection and control machines.
Scope:
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
WG chair:
Michael KRUEGER - CORVAGLIA MOULD AG
Participants:
Joint group bringing together plastic cap manufacturers, PET bottle & preforms manufacturers, bottlers and injection, dispensing and capping machine manufacturers.
Scope:
In the context of EU Directive 2019/904, this group developed the standard related to closures, that remain attached to containers, which became the harmonised standard EN 17665 published by CEN (European Committee for Standardisation ). It continues to support work on packaging aspects of sustainability standards and regulations like the EU PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation).