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PP tap for beverage container.(APPLICATIONS)

High Performance Plastics, February, 2007

A multi-part beer-tap system, injection moulded by Quadrant CMS (Creative Moulding & Systems), Belgium, from PP, has been manufactured for a 5 l, single-use beverage dispenser from Heineken Beer Systems, The Netherlands.

The dispense system, known as the Draught Keg, is a portable and disposable device used for serving draught beer. The keg itself is made from recyclable steel.

The PP tap system consists of five injection-moulded parts and a small extruded tube, which is delivered in a blister packaging together with a protective plastic ring that doubles as a carrier-grip. All the components of the tap system are required to be robust and leak-free, withstanding the pressurized beer as well as fluctuations in temperature as the keg is moved in and...

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