Weener Introduces New Product Line CleanSqueeze Valve Cap

CleanSqueeze is the name of a new line of Weener valve caps offered by the company in a wide variety of models for countless applications and markets.

End consumers are demanding. The days when they were satisfied with merely a quality product are over – meanwhile, in fact, this is simply a given expectation. It is the added value that causes a consumer to choose one product over another. This can be an especially harmonious or a trendy design but more often the end consumer selects a particular product because it comes in clever packaging. Weener know that packaging plays a crucial role in the handling of the contents, as well as in the way that the contents behave. Maximum convenience is the primary feature that end consumers expect from their product. It is this factor that will cause them to choose a particular product repeatedly over another and to remain loyal to it.

Experience Leads to a High Level of Competency
CleanSqueeze valve caps have a particularly positive effect on the easy and comfortable handling of viscous products. Weener looks back on more than 15 years of experience in the area of valve cap solutions, the most obvious application is probably still the proverbial honey container.

Not only in the food sector are valve caps the first choice, however. Cosmetics users are also becoming increasingly fond of the clean and trouble-free handling offered by containers equipped with valve caps, since they ensure that only the desired amount of product can be dispensed precisely and comfortably – important advantages in the eyes of the user.

Weener introduced the valve cap to the market in the mid-nineties, revolutionising the container sector. While the focus was on visco-elastic products at first, solutions are now being offered with which even liquids such as water can be dispensed.

When developing valve cap solutions, Weener always has the entire packaging in mind. As in the saying "great events often come from little causes" it is the valve – often very small in comparison to the entire packaging – that has the greatest influence on the behaviour of the product. The three cornerstones by which the developers at Weener orient themselves for the CleanSqueeze valve are the selected raw material, its geometry and finally, of course, the opening. These three factors offer innumerable pathways for influencing the design.

Countless Possibilities
In regard to raw materials, Weener relies on silicone and TPE, and offers a broad variety of different valve configurations that differ from each other in their various geometries and diameters or openings. Virtually any requirements specification can be executed in this way, including the most detailed one.

In the case that a valve cap is not already available in the Weener assortment, it can be quickly developed with the help of modern simultaneous engineering methods. In any case, the potential of Weener CleanSqueeze valves is far from exhausted.

Complex measurement and analysis methods are available to analyse the behaviour of a valve during opening, closing and ventilation. New valve, material and opening variations can be developed and modified to suit the customer's requirements. Weener offers an extensive assortment of standard valve caps that can fulfil the demands for practically every application.

One of the company's major unique characteristics is the fact that they offer a system package consisting of a valve cap and a bottle from a single source. To date Weener is the only company on the market that is able to offer this combination. This option offers numerous advantages for the customer while simultaneously significantly contributing to an increase in throughput. In regard to bottles, Weener specialises particularly in flattened oval shapes.

Source: Weener Plastic Packaging Group