Collapsible lightweight container

Abstract

The present invention concerns a container suitable for packing and dispensing a non-flowable food product. The container has a collapsible container body and a container neck with a dispensing opening. The container body also has an internal volume (V1) when the body is in fully compressed configuration and an internal volume (V2) when the body is in a fully expanded configuration. Advantageously, (i) the container is manufactured by injection-blowing process out of a thermoplastic material such as polyethyleneterephtalate (PET), polyethylenenaphtalate (PEN), polyethyleneterephtalateglycol (PETG), polypropylene (PP),or a combination thereof, (ii) the body walls have a thickness not higher than 100 μm, and (iii) the ratio V1/V2 is lower than, or equal to, 0.05.

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