• The easy-open flip-top cap was made by Pact Group for Devondale’s 300ml cream bottles.
    The easy-open flip-top cap was made by Pact Group for Devondale’s 300ml cream bottles.
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Pact Group and Murray Goulburn’s Devondale brand have partnered to launch a new, easy-open flip-top cap made for Devondale’s 300ml cream bottles.

The caps are more sustainable, with a lower carbon footprint than the previous closure – and feature improved tamper evidence.

The flip-top lid has a curved hinge to keep it open during pouring, and the opening is designed to permit access with a tablespoon, or enable pouring direct from the container.

The arched hinge allows the flip lid to be fully opened and eliminates the need to remove the closure from the jar.

The lid makes opening the cream bottle a single action, allowing consumers to break the tamper evidence in one step – as opposed to the traditional two-stage process of the former design. The flip-top cap also responds to the common consumer complaint of the cream splattering when the tamper-evident ring of the old-style cap is unraveled and the cap removed.

It has been designed with both a primary and secondary seal to improve the sealing performance, and improved tamper evidence eliminates the tear band system. The cap has connecting bridges located between the flip lid and the tamper band, which are broken when the lid is opened.

The closure is fully recyclable with the HDPE container and there is no need to remove the closure from the bottle prior to recycling.

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