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The Power of a Flow Control Valve

Delight consumers and build loyalty with the ultimate clean, controlled, and convenient dispensing experience.

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The Value of Valves

Aptar’s valves enhance brand value for a variety of products around the world.

Aptar valves have made inverted packaging and hygienic flow control possible for a wide variety of brands all over the world. With that, brands and consumers experience the benefit of Aptar valves every day in many of their food, beverage, personal care, and home care products.

Our flow control valves have also enabled new markets to emerge such as liquid water enhancers and the new squeezable inverted pouch format for applications such as sour cream, guacamole, peanut butter, and more.

Aptar has been providing valves for more than 30 years with more than 40 billion valves sold worldwide. Our goal is to continue to develop and deliver innovative, sustainable, high-performance valves for a wide variety of field applications, helping brands provide enjoyable and clean product dispensing to end-consumers.

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High-Quality, Repeatable Performance

Aptar flow control valves are versatile, working with different viscosities from ketchup to hair treatments. The valves deliver a unique product-specific dispensing experience for brands around the world. while providing high-quality, repeatable performance with every dispense. With over 30 years of commercial success and 40 billion valves sold, Aptar has the expertise and experience to deliver flow control solutions to differentiate and optimize packaging around the world.

 Improving the Consumer Experience and Enabling Brand Loyalty

 

  • Cleanliness

  • Precision

  • Quality

  • High Standards

  • Comprehensive Testing

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    Cleanliness

    The consistent high-quality design provides repeatable performance for the ultimate in clean, controlled dispensing and preventing drips, spills and leaks throughout the life of the package.

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    Precision

    Overall valve design and slit versatility ensures precise dispensing and allows consumers to dispense product where they want it, when they want it, and avoid messy spills.

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    Quality

    Rolling sleeve design on the valve ensures clean product cut-off with every dispense.

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    High Standards

    High-quality standards in valve manufacturing ensure quality, consistency, and performance reliability from the first dispense to the last.

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    Comprehensive Testing

    Aptar’s Integrated Test Lab conducts Valve Performance Evaluations and Compatibility Test during the package development process, to ensure that product and packaging components work seamlessly together.

Cleaner Dispensing: Aptar’s Valve vs. Traditional Baffle

Aptar’s flow control valves were developed to deliver clean product dispensing throughout the package’s life. To highlight its value in terms of cleanliness, hygiene, and consumer experience, we completed a side-by-side dispense test between the valve and a traditional baffled orifice with ketchup.

A photo was taken after each squeeze until the package was empty. The image below shows the result after thirty-three consecutive product evacuations were made, indicating that the Aptar valve provides a cleaner product cut-off while the traditional baffle option often results in a “product tail” accumulating on the closure lid over time.

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Our Portfolio

We work with customers to find the optimal valve size, slit configuration, and material to provide a unique product-specific dispensing experience and enhance brand value.

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The global leading silicone valve

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High-performing valve, able to be sorted in sink/float tanks in the PET recycling stream

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High-performing valve, able to be sorted in sink/float tanks in the PET recycling stream

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SureSnap® incorporates our SimpliSqueeze® elastomeric valve in a preassembled retaining ring

Wide Range of Applications

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Food

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Beverage

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Beauty

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Pharma

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Reusable Devices

Reusable Devices
 
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Custom Solutions (Packaging, Non-Packaging Applications).

30+ Years Delivering Superior Flow Control

Aptar works directly with customers to help select the optimal valve size and slit configuration for their products, testing the package before it is released to store shelves to ensure the best possible performance. Managing both the diameter of the valve and the slit configuration enables us to dial in on the most desired dispensing performance while maximizing leakage resistance for each individual product type. The Aptar manufacturing process enables considerable flexibility for controlling both.

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  • Versatility

    We have developed proprietary technology to manufacture more than 150 elastomeric flow control solutions for numerous applications and products. We offer stock or custom valve solutions for almost any application field.

  • Performance

    We leverage our global footprint to better serve our customers and manufacture more than 3 billion valves yearly.

    We use the best materials in our innovative manufacturing process to deliver superior-performance dispensing valves.

  • Innovation

    We’re continuously innovating to deliver new product solutions for our customers and to improve the performance, durability, and sustainability of our valves.​

  • Support

    We leverage our 30+ years of experience to deliver custom solutions and technical support to all our customers. ​

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Why Choose Future Disc Top?

We love these features.

  • Fully Recyclable, Mono-Material

  • E-commerce Capable

  • Easy To Use, Intuitive Design

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    Polyethylene closure that is fully-recyclable when paired with a PE bottle.

    Certifications by Cyclos-HTP, the Institute for Recyclability and Product Responsibility.

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    ISTA-6 Compliant

    A stand-out feature of the Future Disc Top’s innovative design is the incorporated and easy to use locking/unlocking ring, which opens the closure before pushing on the finger recess.

    Brands can now be reassured that their products which use the Future Disc Top can withstand the risks associated with transport and distribution network pressures.

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    Eco-Design for Consumer Ease

    Future range’s sleek, elegant design makes it an ideal solution for a wide range of application fields. Future Disc Top is the perfect match with the Future lotion pump for a complete range of packaging.

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In the News

Clean Product Dispensing and Recyclability: Have it All with Simplicycle™ Flow Control Valve

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Recognition

World Food

World Food Innovation Awards 2021

 
Aptar EFC’s SimpliCycle™ Recyclable Valve was recognized by the World Food Organisation for its packaging innovation.​
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WorldStar Winner 2022

 
Aptar EFC’s SimpliCycle™ recyclable valve received the prestigious 2022 WorldStar Global Packaging award for packaging innovation.​
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AmeriStar 2022

 
Aptar EFC’s SimpliCycle™ received Ameristar’s Sustainable Packaging award.

Please let us know how we can help you with your flow control needs.

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