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Cetie Staff
Lead the way in shaping tomorrow's packaging standards with Cetie!
03/12/2024
Join the Movement Shaping the Future of Packaging Standards!
As we approach the end of the year, we want to take a moment to thank all of you – whether you're a current Cetie Member, a document user, a former Member, or simply a …
PET plenary
Plastic Closure Ovality: A Global Standardisation Initiative
18/11/2024
For several years, two major players in the PET and plastic packaging sectors based in Europe and the United States have been working together to establish unified guidelines and standards. This collaboration is demonstrated through the joint …
Cetie Staff
Welcome to Our New Showcase Website: cetie-standard.com
21/10/2024
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new showcase website: cetie-standard.com. This new platform is designed to be the gateway to Cetie’s extensive documentation, providing a clearer, more structured overview of the standards we …
Glass wg3
New Italian Translations Available!
15/10/2024
We’re excited to announce the release of an important new Italian translation for the wine bottling industry:
GME50.02 - Glass Bottles - Specifications of a Neck Finish with Entry Bore Diameter of 17.5 mm is now available in Italian! …
Cetie Staff
Gérard Cova Appointed as New Secretary-General of Cetie
15/07/2024
Cetie, the International Technical Center for Glass and PET Packaging, proudly announces the appointment of Gérard Cova as its new Secretary-General. Gérard Cova, a seasoned expert with more than three decades of dedication to the …
Design for Recycling - Glass containers
A Visit to Sibelco: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Glass Container Recycling
06/06/2024
On May 17th, a Cetie delegation led by Josquin Peycere, the association's General Secretary along with several members, visited the Sibelco plant near Reims, in St. Léonard, France. This site, is renowned for its expertise in …
The Association
Welcome New Cetie Members!
22/05/2024
We are excited to introduce our newest members to the Cetie community, now encompassing more than 120 members:
SECURE INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Located in Navi Mumbai, Secure Closures specialises in manufacturing and selling plastic caps and …
Design for Recycling - Glass containers
New working group: DESIGN FOR RECYCLING - GLASS CONTAINERS
01/02/2024
All glass is recyclable… but some glass containers are easier to recycle than others.
On the whole, the situation is very simple: glass containers are all made of the same material which is soda-lime glass (except for a few very specific …
Guide - Synthetic stoppers on glass bottles
Cetie is launching a new working group to develop a Guide dedicated to synthetic cork stoppers
03/11/2023
Cetie is launching a new working group to develop a Guide dedicated to synthetic cork stoppers:
While GUIDE N° 1 - BOTTLING OF STILL WINES ON A CORK MOUTH FINISH, originally published in 2008, has been under revision since March 2022, we are …
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
Cetie at AMI in Barcelona.
26/06/2023
Cetie participated with great pleasure to the renowned international Plastic Closure Innovation event organised by AMI in Barcelona. The event, which took place from 13th to 15th June 2023, is proving to be an exceptional platform, engaging in …
Cetie Staff
Cetie continues to actively modernise its reference documents
11/04/2023
The year 2022 enabled us to reconnect through in-person meetings with Cetie’s experts in Europe while, for the time being, remote meetings continue for other continents. However, the capacity for many of our members to travel has been …
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
Cetie's new environmental challenges
30/01/2023
Cetie’s new environmental challenges
The European Commission rightfully considers plastic packaging to be a major environmental issue.
The Commission is gradually rolling out a legislative arsenal of regulations and directives based on a …
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
The 'Attached caps' standard is about to be published, What comes next?
01/09/2022
The Cetie “Single-Use Plastic (SUP)” group has been working for almost four years on this topic, related to European Directive 2019/904 “on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment”, better …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Cetie, ever more active on the side of glass packaging
01/07/2022
For more than 60 years, Cetie has been supporting the glass packaging industry in its quest for performance, rigour, and quality by defining specifications and harmonising good practices, both in the glass manufacturing process …
Revision guide n°1
Cork stoppers are as natural as ever, but they are now increasingly high-tech !
14/06/2022
Glass bottle closures using natural cork still remain definitively modern and highly technical. Admittedly, in the last 20 years, screw finishes have expanded their reach: first of all, in the New World (the United States, then Australia, South …
Reuse of food and beverages glass containers
The growing reuse of packaging calls for reference frameworks
28/03/2022
It is indisputable that the reuse of containers (bottles and jars) is gaining ground,
as it seems so obvious that reusing packaging several times will save materials and energy. Those who have looked closer at the question of reuse have found …
Reuse of food and beverages glass containers
Launch of new Cetie group : Reuse of food and beverage containers
01/03/2022
All interested parties, members and non-members are invited to participate in the kick-off meeting and to confirm their presence:
on Monday, 23rd May 2022
From 2:00 until 7:00 (French time)
at Cetie
114 rue la Boétie, 75008 …
Cetie Staff
Cetie presents a modernised library of documents
01/02/2022
The year 2021 was very much a continuation of 2020, with Cetie managing almost all of its work through remote meetings, with systematic adoption of "virtual" solutions. The 12 active working groups worked on a total of 84 documents …
Cetie Staff
Cetie: a valuable asset for European standardisation
21/12/2021
The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), which publishes official standards in Europe, relies on its active members to write normative documents according to a strict development schedule that alternates between the writing (drafting) …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Alan Haigh, a 30 years Cetie' stalwart, talks about his experience at Cetie
28/09/2021
Interview with flaconnage glass technical expert, Alan Haigh,
October 2021 will be an important date for Cetie, with the last participation or Alan Haigh to Cetie activities after 30 years of strong involvement in chairing major …
Label and glass containers recycling
Labels and labelling: the key points of the process
19/07/2021
"Labelling comes last and is more complex than it seems"
In the chronology of the process for packaging glass bottles or jars, labelling comes last and is more complex than it seems. The idea is to attach one or two grams of paper or …
Cap manufacturers wg1
Cetie also gives guidance for metal caps!
15/06/2021
The closure system is an essential element of any packaging.
Glass bottles are generally closed either by a system that creates a seal inside the bottleneck, such as corks or their substitutes, by a cap that creates a seal on the upper edge of …
The Association
An amazing year in review
31/05/2021
A CETIE 2020 VINTAGE OUT OF THE RANGE
The review of a surprising year
The year 2020 undoubtedly caught everyone off guard, in all sectors. For Cetie, it meant having to work remotely, which technically functions well, but minimises …
Flaconnage geometry
Glass: A new generation of screw rings for perfume bottles
24/05/2021
Flaconnage geometry group: The interchangeability issue
"Spurred by the growing demand for eco-friendly packaging, fragrance houses are increasingly offering bottles with an unscrewable sprayer. This allows these precious glass vials …
Flaconnage geometry
From the FEA neck finish to the Screw neck finish
28/04/2021
Cetie Flaconnage geometry group
Interchangeability of the FEA finish/screw finish
Cetie's glass FLACONNAGE groups have been operating for several years now. Stakeholders join Cetie to set up the working groups that will …
PET plenary
New free standard for PET neck finish at Cetie
01/03/2021
Article in PETnology N°1/2021
The new free standard for PET neck finish dedicated to the attached caps
"In the context of European Directive 2019/904, the European Commission mandated the CEN (European Committee for …
PET plenary
Plastic finishes and caps are as dynamic as ever
01/02/2021
Plastic finishes and caps in the beverage and the Home/Personal Care sectors
In both the beverage and the Home and Personal Care (HPC) sectors, Cetie remains as active as ever in promoting cooperation between the leaders in packaging. …
Bottlers/fillers and glass manufacturers
New group is launched (Glass containers)
24/11/2020
Cetie welcomes a new working group
USERS* and GLASS MANUFACTURERS
*Brand owners and fillers/bottlers
Its scope consists of setting up and coordinating a documentary production which is at the junction of both …
Revision guide n°3
Guide N°3 release Revision I
11/11/2020
GUIDE N° 3 - TIRAGE (BOTTLING) AND FINAL CORKING OF QUALITY SPARKLING WINES*
*PRODUCED IN SPECIFIC REGIONS (QSWPSR)ON 29-MM AND 26-MM CROWN CLOSURE. (NF H35 029)
Scope of the guide
The initial documents, drawn up in …
Glass manufacturers plenary
The activities of the glass manufacturer groups at Cetie
08/10/2020
Glass manufacturers' plenary meeting at Cetie is every year!
This year, the groups involved in the themes relating to flacons, bottles and jars, have worked very actively to move forward with the topics of the profession.
The five …
PET plenary
Lothar Brauer hands over the Cetie PET Group!
06/07/2020
Chairmanship of PET group
Interview with Lother Brauer chair of the PET plenary Cetie group
June 30th 2020 was an important date for Cetie, as it was the last participation of Lothar Brauer to Cetie activities after many years of …
Cetie Staff
Cetie business report and outlook
14/04/2020
Cetie’s business report and outlook
Like this time last year, Cetie is taking stock of what it has accomplished over the previous year, with and for the bottling industry. Before offering you a survey of the Working Groups and the …
Cap manufacturers wg1
Data sheets and guidelines dedicated to the metallic screw capping
01/04/2020
Cetie library enriches its collection
The best & unique collection ever of technical data sheets and guidelines dedicated to the metallic screw capping sector.
Bottling guides
GUIDE N° 2 - METALLIC SCREW …
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
The SUP standard is now well on track
05/03/2020
New finish GME30.40 - PET FINISH 26/22-15-1/2,3
When the European Commission published its draft directive on "Single-Use-Plastic" (SUP) 18 months ago, it stated its intention to tackle the problem of plastic waste washing up …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Glass groups: forums for horizontal and vertical discourse
12/12/2019
Working on the harmonisation of a practice or a specification
Sometimes, reaching an agreement is more important than the details of the agreement itself.
When working on the harmonisation of a practice or a specification, everyone …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Glass Manufacturers Plenary Meeting in The Netherlands
17/10/2019
2019 Cetie GLASS MANUFACTURERS PLENARY MEETING
This year, the Ardagh Group kindly invited the Cetie glass packaging delegation to Amsterdam, Netherlands.
10 companies met and worked together on our documentary collection: …
Revision guidelines n°9
Volume control
30/09/2019
In the field of packaging, the quantity packed is a crucial matter.
From the consumer's point of view, the quantity must of course be the same as that promised by the seller, which is usually clearly indicated on the label. The …
Revision guidelines n°9
Cetie bottling guides: a reference by and for the profession!
02/09/2019
Broad collaboration even between competitors...
Among Cetie's publications, the Bottling Guides are the result of a particularly broad collaboration:
all actors involved, from suppliers of packaging components to bottlers, contribute to …
Revision guidelines n°18
ISBT and Cetie collaboration
23/07/2019
Collaborative development agreement to generate global beverage industry voluntary guidelines
Today ISBT and Cetie announced a formal agreement of a novel collaborative approach to jointly develop and distribute global beverage industry …
Cetie Staff
European standardisation's meetings through Cetie membership
18/06/2019
Participate in European standardisation through Cetie
Participation in CEN* meetings is determined by the respective national standardisation organisations which are members of CEN. For example: if you are located in Germany, you …
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
Cetie Single-use-plastic (SUP) working group
11/06/2019
New PET working group
The Cetie PET working group initially dedicated to PET bottle finish specifications and increasingly dynamic, is further extending its outreach with the creation of a sub-group “SUP” (Single-use plastic) …
Label and glass containers recycling
S E P A R A B I L I T Y
03/06/2019
Life of packaging
Over the last decades, the end life of packaging has become a major concern for companies commercialising bottles products, beyond the regulatory requirements in force since the 1990s. In reply to the increasingly …
The Association
Launch of our new website !
29/05/2019
LAUNCH OF THE NEW CETIE WEBSITE
After months of hard work and dedication, we are pleased to announce the launch of our sparkling new website!
This new site is now online at www.cetie.org.
New blog interface
Beyond its …
Cetie Staff
Cetie : Situation and Perspectives
07/05/2019
Cetie General Assembly
The Cetie General Assembly in March is the opportunity to review activities of the past year and assess perspectives for the future. We propose here a brief survey of the active Cetie Working Groups and technical …
The Association
In the General Interest
07/03/2019
Competitors & suppliers at the same table
People who participate in Cetie working group meetings for the first time may find it unsettling to sit down at the same table with their competitors, even though the aim of the meeting is clearly …
Sustainability aspects of rigid plastic and composite packaging
Cetie and the draft SUP directive
11/11/2018
The European Commission proposal for single-use-plastic
On 28 May 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a directive "on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment," referred to more …
The Association
The use of Cetie documents in case of litigation
16/10/2018
Compliance with standards and good industrial practices throughout the bottling value chain is essential to guarantee that the finished product purchased by the end-user gives entire satisfaction. Thus, the characteristics of supplies for bottling …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Glass Manufacturers Plenary Meeting in Spain
20/09/2018
2018 Cetie GLASS MANUFACTURERS PLENARY MEETING
2018 Cetie 's Glass Manufacturers plenary meeting starts in Barcelona, on the kind invitation of VIDRALA:
Attendees:
AH CONSULT for BRITISH GLASS Mr Alan HAIGH …
Revision guidelines n°9
Cetie & test-methods
06/07/2018
The control of industrial processes
The control of industrial processes requires carrying out measurements, tests and analyses at each stage of production, generally integrated into quality management procedures.
The parameters which …
Flaconnage geometry
Bottling of home and personal care products and perfumes
24/04/2018
Cetie and non-food bottling applications
Although Cetie proposes technical documents mainly centred on food and beverages it has also always been active in non-food bottling applications.
The increased interest is currently seen for these …
Revision guide n°11
Prevention of defects in aluminium screw caps
05/03/2018
Prevention of defects in aluminium screw caps
Cetie Bottling Guides
The Cetie Bottling Guides are intended above all to help bottlers avoid defects when using the closure systems in question. In reality, however, the …
PET plenary
Index marks for PET bottles
17/01/2018
Plastic screw caps and finishes at Cetie
Cetie has just published a new recommendation sheet, FS 18, for index marks on PET bottle screw caps and finishes.
Developed by the "PET Finishes" working group, these recommendations …
Revision guide n°14
Bar Top Stoppers - Follow the Guide!
16/11/2017
Creation of a new Bottling Guide
For some time now, a number of Cetie members directly concerned by the subject of bar top stoppers have suggested that Cetie should initiate work in this area.
It is indeed a stoppering system for …
Revision guidelines n°18
Cetie at plastic caps and closures 2017 conference
26/10/2017
Standards and best practice – sharing to advance
Cetie will participate in the PLASTIC CAPS AND CLOSURES 2017 CONFERENCE on the 8th of November.
The two days meetings will be held at HOTEL NOVOTEL AMSTERDAM CITY, on November, …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Glass Manufacturers Plenary Meeting in Germany
01/10/2017
2017 Cetie GLASS MANUFACTURERS PLENARY MEETING
BUNDESVERBAND GLASINDUSTRIE E.V. (Federal Association of the German Glass Industry) represented by Mr Stefan Mieth kindly invites Cetie working groups Glass manufacturers plenary meeting …
The Association
The useful art of compromise
07/09/2017
What we do at Cetie
When we explain to people what we do at Cetie, there is frequently a moment of astonishment.
That such a mundane, everyday object as a bottle or a jar should generate so much joint work and reflection, motivating …
Revision guide n°3
Cetie and Wine(s)
01/01/2017
A world of wine
Cetie main field of activity
While the Cetie may have been founded at the start of the 1960s to solve the problems caused by the bottling of beer with a crown cap at increasingly high rates, the …
Glass manufacturers plenary
Glass Manufacturers Plenary Meeting in Portugal
22/09/2016
The Annual Glass Manufacturers plenary meeting has been held this year in Portugal, on the kind invitation of BA Vidro.
From the 22 until the 23 September 2016, Cetie glass working groups are meeting in Portugal.
See the programme …
PET plenary
Cetie PET Working Groups invited at Husky plant in Luxemburg
01/09/2016
The European dynamism for the development of PET bottle closures means that Cetie has become an experts' forum
The closure of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles is an area that necessarily involves numerous players: …
The Association
New Vision, New Career Opportunity
01/06/2016
Cetie is currently seeking to recruit
Cetie's level of activity remains high,
with some twenty active working groups, 16 new documents currently under preparation and the ongoing revision of Bottling Guides Nos. 2, 3, …
PET plenary
PET finish and open innovation at Cetie
01/03/2016
A quest for the innovation
The quest for innovation enables companies to keep and grow their markets by standing out from the competition. Innovation is easily associated with a culture of secrecy and the protection of intellectual property by …
Glass wg1+4
Headspaces
01/01/2016
Headspaces discussions at Cetie
It is a fact of life that, with a few exceptions, substances expand when the temperature rises. Moreover, as a general rule, liquids expand much more than solids for the same rise in the temperature. This …
The Association
L&C magazine with Cetie - Questions and answers
01/12/2015
Cetie is a unique platform providing resource for the packaging industry
Cetie is a unique platform that pools expertise in bottling and publishes technical reference documents and specifications, based on this expertise, intended to become …
Label and glass containers recycling
Labels and eco-design
01/11/2015
The labels of bottled products contain information for consumers
(identification of the nature of the product, the quantity contained, nutritional value, etc.) and form part of the brand’s visual identity, which may influence the …
Cap manufacturers wg3
The eternal youth of the Crown-Cap
01/07/2015
The crown cap is an interesting case
Invented at the end of the 19th century
by William Painter, an American of Irish descent, it emerged as the economic and efficient closure solution for carbonated drinks. This was a time …
Revision guidelines n°9
Directives and Prepackaging
01/05/2015
Regulations of prepackaging
We have already talked about the regulations on the filling capacities of prepackaging
in an article published in L & C No.369 (January 2014), in which the legislator's pragmatism in …
The Association
The Cetie Association
01/03/2015
Cetie, an association at the service of its members
Serving the bottling industries in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors for over half a century,
Cetie (Centre International Technique de …
PET plenary
ISBT Announces Cooperative Initiative with Cetie
04/11/2014
ISBT Announces Cooperative Initiative with Cetie
The International Society of Beverage Technologists is pleased to announce its new strategic cooperative initiative with The Centre Technique International de l’Embouteillage …
Cap manufacturers wg1
New Cetie guidance for bottling still wine on glass BVS finishes
01/11/2014
Interview with Jacques Granger*, consulting experts in capping
*chairman of the working group for the "Revision of Cetie Bottling Guide No.6 Metallic screw capping for still wines".
L & C: The …
The Association
Cetie and the Social and Solidarity Economy
01/09/2014
"The social and solidarity-based economy implies an awakening of individual consciousness to contribute to a collective project"
The act adopted on 31 July by the French government relative to the social and solidarity-based economy …
Bottlers/fillers and glass manufacturers
Materials and objects in contact with foodstuffs
01/08/2014
"Materials and objects intended to come into contact with foodstuffs: Only six such specific texts exist at European level. "
The DGCCRF (French Fraud Control Agency) has just published an update of the general considerations …
Cetie Staff
Quality, Safety & Environment - Natural extension of our activity
01/04/2014
Quality management at the International centre for bottling
Cetie is currently setting up a number of QSE-themed working groups.
This opening up of Cetie's action deserves some explanation.
L&C put some questions to Dominique Simon …
Revision guidelines n°9
Controlling the capacities of prepackaging
01/01/2014
Bottled liquid foodstuffs undoubtedly represent the oldest form of prepackaging through the ages
Regulatory texts tend by nature to make for tedious reading, but when it comes to controlling weights and capacities for prepackaged products, …
The Association
Développement Durable et packaging
01/04/2011
Développement Durable et packaging verre – une mise en commun par nature
Le dernier Conseil d’Administration du Cetie a confirmé l’extension des domaines d’activité du Cetie pour …
Bottlers/fillers and glass manufacturers
Contrôle de l'hygiène sur ligne d'embouteillage de vins tranquilles
17/09/2009
Série des Cahiers de la Qualité en Embouteillage
Dans la série des Cahiers de la Qualité en Embouteillage, le Cahier n°14 consacré au Contrôle de l’hygiène sur lignes …
Cap manufacturers wg2 and glass manufacturers wg3
Verriers et Capsuliers (Larges ouvertures)
17/06/2009
Les réunions communes Verriers et Capsuliers « Larges ouvertures »
Lors d’un précédent Repères, nous avions rappelé que les travaux du CETIE sont toujours …
The Association
Matériaux et sociétés
09/03/2007
Le CETIE « c’est seulement le verre »
Deux commentaires reviennent fréquemment et assez spontanément lorsqu’on parle du CETIE avec des interlocuteurs de la filière …
The Association
Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of CHemicals
12/01/2007
REACH – Quelles conséquences pour les utilisateurs
Améliorer la protection de la santé humaine et la protection de l’environnement
Le règlement CE n° 1907/2006 du Parlement …
PET plenary
Les Bagues PET au CETIE
19/08/2005
Le groupe de travail Bagues PET au CETIE
PCO – Plastic Closure Only - de 28 millimètres
Lors d’une réunion tenue en mars de cette année, le groupe Capsuliers « Bouchages pour …
Cetie Staff
Normalisation concernant le contrôle des récipients en verre
03/05/2005
Les normes: les solutions aux problèmes techniques et commerciaux
Extrait du Décret n°84-74 du 26 janvier 1984
« La normalisation a pour objet de fournir des documents de référence …
Cap manufacturers wg1 and glass manufacturers wg3
Le bouchage des vins tranquilles
09/02/2005
Le bouchage des vins tranquilles
L’appellation « Vins tranquilles » n’existe pas dans la législation.
Entre dans cette catégorie tous les vins qui ne sont ni pétillants, ni …
Bottlers/fillers and glass manufacturers
Propreté des pré-emballages
26/02/2004
BONNES PRATIQUES DE L'EMBOUTEILLAGE
Cahier de la Qualité en Embouteillage N°12
Dans la série des Cahiers de la Qualité en Embouteillage, le cahier n° 12 consacré à la Propreté des …
The Association
Comment s'élabore une norme internationale ?
01/01/2004
La normalisation pour les industries de l’embouteillage et du conditionnement.
Qu’est une norme?
Il m’a semblé utile de profiter de cette rubrique pour rappeler ou préciser le processus …
The Association
Création de la commission de normalisation CN6
01/08/2003
Création d’une commission de normalisation CN 6 pour les industries de l’embouteillage
Le Cetie et la Normalisation
Les travaux de normalisation dans le secteur de l’emballage sont actuellement …
Cetie Staff
L'emballages dans l'Union Européenne
01/06/2003
Va-t-on vers une déréglementation des formats d’emballages dans l’Union Européenne ?
Le programme SLIM-IV
Les deux premières réglementations européennes sur les gammes de …
Bottlers/fillers and glass manufacturers
Le Décret sur le bioterrorisme de 2002
28/02/2003
“Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act”
Renforcer la sécurité
Le 12 juin 2002, les Etats Unis ont définitivement adopté un décret appelé …
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