Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Francesca Tavoni

Maurizio Filippini

Pietro Martini

Giulio Bertani

Rocco De Paola

Angelo Sorbara

Franco Cani

Kristian Jacobsson

Paolo Zanon

Livio Veronesi

Davide Corradi

Daniele Palladino

Anna Rosa Vietri

Linda Luik

Daniele Golfieri

Massimo Tedeschi

Erica Lundström

A lid-spout assembly for a package having a main body comprising a designated pour opening and being filled with a pourable product. The lid-spout assembly comprises at least a spout having a pouring outlet, a lid configured to selectively close and open the pouring outlet and a tethering element tethering the lid to the spout and/or the main body. The spout comprises a base frame coupling and/or configured to couple the spout to the main body about the designated pour opening and a collar carrying and/or comprising the pouring outlet and being fixed to and protruding from the base frame. The lid is moveable at least in a closed position in which the lid closes and/or seals the pouring outlet and an open position in which the lid opens the pouring outlet. The lid comprises an interaction ridge being configured to interact with the collar so as to determine a closing force with the lid being arranged in the closed position for retaining the lid in the closed position.

Lid-spout assembly for a package and package having a lid-spout assembly

Lid for containers

A lid-spout assembly for a package having a main body including a designated pour opening and being filled with a pourable product. The lid-spout assembly comprises at least a spout having a pouring outlet, a lid configured to selectively close and open the pouring outlet and a tethering element tethering the lid to the spout. The spout includes at least a base frame configured to couple the spout to the main body about the designated pour opening and a collar carrying the pouring outlet and protruding from the base frame. The tethering element includes a first end fixed to the lid and a second end fixed to the collar.

Lid for packaging

An opening device configured to be applied to packaging for pourable products comprises: a pouring spout defining a pouring opening through which to pour, in use, the pourable product; a cap configured to engage and disengage the pouring spout to respectively close and open the pouring opening; a closing element closing and/or sealing the pouring opening, formed in one piece with the pouring spout and connected to the pouring spout by a breakable connecting portion configured to break during first opening of the opening device; the closing element comprising a protruding portion extending through the pouring opening and connected to the cap; and tamper-evidence device fitted to the pouring spout and initially connected to the cap by at least one breakable connecting bridge configured to break during first opening of the opening device; wherein the cap is hinged to the tamper-evidence device thereby being permanently tethered to the pouring spout.

Opening device for a packaging for pourable products

A molding apparatus that injection molds an opening device on a packaging material sheet includes first and second molding units to injection mold a wall portion of the opening device on the sheet; the first molding unit comprising first and second molding elements configured to cooperate in contact to delimit at least part of a mold cavity fillable with molten material for forming a pull-member of the opening device; the mold cavity being delimited at least by first and second surfaces defined by the first and second molding elements respectively; a third molding unit cooperable with the first and second molding elements to delimit the mold cavity, and defining a third surface, facing the first and second surfaces and delimiting, together with these latter, the mold cavity; the third surface is shaped to be equidistant from the first and second surfaces when the first and second molding elements cooperate.

Molding apparatus configured to injection mold an opening device on a sheet of packaging material

Packaging sheet for foodstuff

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Modena, Italy

Francesca Tavoni