Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
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The traditional wine connoisseur has seen a packaging evolution in terms of closures; natural corks to synthetic cork materials to Stelvin® screw caps. The latter, adding a way to keep wine fresh and remove the temptation to drink a whole bottle in one sitting. Producers followed the wine drinker from the dinner party to the picnic. Packaging solutions have facilitated a move to wine ‘on the go’. The air-tight, light-proof, unbreakable aluminium drinks can has established itself as a viable container. The perception of being a healthier choice—by serving less volume than traditional bottles—as well as being lighter to carry, less potentially fragile, eliminating the corkscrew, and even a glass. In COVID times, these conveniences are still more valued through single-serving packaging and removal of the need to share opening devices or drinking receptacles.
The indicator of openability for a stay-on-tab design is the peak effort required to breach the scored end-shell tab on the lid surface. Mecmesin’s easy-to-use motorised force test stands enable this tensile force to be displayed as a peak value on a digital force gauge or to be determined from the more detailed graphical output on software-controlled test systems.
Test equipment
Motorised tensile tester
Can holder
Chain link assembly and hook
mecmesin.com/publications/wine-can-pop-and-tear-opening-force
The traditional wine connoisseur has seen a packaging evolution in terms of closures; natural corks to synthetic cork materials to Stelvin® screw caps. The latter, adding a way to keep wine fresh and remove the temptation to drink a whole bottle in one sitting. Producers followed the wine drinker from the dinner party to the picnic. Packaging solutions have facilitated a move to wine ‘on the go’. The air-tight, light-proof, unbreakable aluminium drinks can has established itself as a viable container. The perception of being a healthier choice—by serving less volume than traditional bottles—as well as being lighter to carry, less potentially fragile, eliminating the corkscrew, and even a glass. In COVID times, these conveniences are still more valued through single-serving packaging and removal of the need to share opening devices or drinking receptacles.
The indicator of openability for a stay-on-tab design is the peak effort required to breach the scored end-shell tab on the lid surface. Mecmesin’s easy-to-use motorised force test stands enable this tensile force to be displayed as a peak value on a digital force gauge or to be determined from the more detailed graphical output on software-controlled test systems.
Test equipment
Motorised tensile tester
Can holder
Chain link assembly and hook
