Oxygen barriers and scavengers will drive plastic packaging's growth
ACTIS, the amorphous carbon coating developed by France's Sidel Group, remains the only FDA-approved coating for food contact, and coated PET is regarded as essential if mass produced, competitively priced plastic bottles are to compete with glass in the beer market. But in announcing a takeover bid for Sidel in March, Tetra Laval president Goeran Grosskopf said, "ACTIS is good technology, but it is not yet reliable." He indicated Tetra Laval would shelve ACTIS.