{"id":27671,"date":"2019-10-21T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=27671"},"modified":"2019-10-21T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:30:39","slug":"sabic-centre-cap-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/sabic-zentrum-verschlusskappen-deckel\/","title":{"rendered":"New centre for caps and lids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sabic has announced the opening of a new Technology &amp; Innovation Centre for the Caps &amp; Closures segment in Geleen, the Netherlands. Located at Sabic's European Technology Centre on the Chemelot campus, this investment underlines the company's commitment to the development of new materials and technologies for cap and closure applications.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the new facility was led by Sergi Monros, Sabic Vice President for Performance Polymers &amp; Industry Solutions, Petrochemicals. This opening comes just one year after Sabic opened the<strong> Caps &amp; Closures Industry Segment Organisation<\/strong> was founded.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eThrough our market-oriented organisation, we are already strongly focused on innovation-driven solutions that respond to changing trends, which is what our customers expect from us in this strategic market segment,\u201c says <strong>Monros<\/strong>. \u201eThe state-of-the-art technical centre enables us to accelerate and expand the development of industry-leading materials and technologies for relevant applications. In addition to caps and lids, this also includes pumping, dosing and other product conveying systems for beverages, food and non-food items.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27675\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27675\" title=\"(Image: Sabic)\" src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SABICPR396c.jpg\" alt=\"(Image: Sabic)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SABICPR396c.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SABICPR396c-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SABICPR396c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SABICPR396c-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SABICPR396c-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image: Sabic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Monros points to the growing demand for creative solutions that are sustainable, cost-effective and standard-compliant. These solutions must also fulfil the increasing regulations for <strong>Product safety<\/strong> and <strong>Consumer protection<\/strong> fulfil. \u201eEnd users also expect fit-for-purpose solutions and we are always keen to contribute to functional improvements.\u201c<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-3213356104\"><div id=\"packa-2962153129\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>SABIC<\/strong> consistently utilises pioneering technologies both in the development of new materials and for application tests. The specially developed for applications in this field <strong>Polymers<\/strong> for example, support the development of lighter caps or more efficient or easier to manufacture pumps and dosing systems, while at the same time supporting our customers' efforts to increase their overall sustainability.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eThe new technology and innovation centre for caps and lids provides an environment in which we can deepen collaboration with our customers and ultimately develop better solutions with our customers. <strong>Increased customer benefit<\/strong> can offer,\u201c concludes Monros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The centre has equipment for simulating the actual performance of caps and lids in practice. The equipment in the application-specific research laboratory includes material testing devices for mechanical properties, dimensional stability and stress cracking resistance (ESCR). It can <strong>Sample fasteners<\/strong> to test their performance for potential applications on site and to optimise existing products. In addition, the capacities are also geared towards the development and testing of new product designs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Sabic<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabic has announced the opening of a new Technology &amp; Innovation Centre for the Caps &amp; Closures segment in Geleen, the Netherlands.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114,22],"tags":[32,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-27671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-den-unternehmen-news","8":"category-packmittel-und-packstoffe","9":"tag-packmittel-und-packstoffe","10":"tag-verschluesse-und-verschliesssysteme","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}