Sidel EvoDECO Next roll-fed labelling solution

The Sidel EvoDECO Next roll-fed labelling solution is designed to provide users with greater decoration freedom and lower material consumption. By bringing partial labels to a roll-fed platform, it enables beverage producers to use less label material while revealing more of the bottle for differentiated brand expression, without compromising the robustness required for industrial production.

PET packaging continues to evolve towards greater material efficiency and circularity, while brands remain under pressure to differentiate on shelf. Much of the industry’s lightweighting work has focused on the bottle itself, from the neck and body to the base. EvoDECO Next extends this thinking to decoration, treating the label as another packaging component that can be optimised.

Traditionally associated with wraparound decoration, roll-fed labelling can now be used with smaller partial labels through EvoDECO Next. By revealing more of the bottle, producers can make the container shape, transparent PET and product part of the visual identity.

Depending on the decoration selected, Sidel says partial labelling can reduce label surface by up to 75% compared with a conventional wraparound label.

EvoDECO Next has been engineered as an integrated platform, rather than an existing roll-fed machine adapted for shorter labels. Its architecture combines Cutter 2.0, Smart Buffer, Smart Camera and High-Speed changeover parts, with feeding, cutting, transfer and control designed to work seamlessly together.

The solution can also be combined with Sidel’s CoboREEL automated reel-management solution, which reduces operator intervention, provides embedded traceability and supports greater production autonomy, of up to 18 reels.