Case Study: RETAL achieves lightweight, sustainable packaging and faster time-to-market with Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE

RETAL - Customer Case Study

RETAL, a global manufacturer of PET preforms, closures and packaging films, needed to accelerate responsiveness to meet customers’ time‑to‑market, cost and sustainability demands for lightweight yet robust packaging. To address this, RETAL implemented Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, leveraging CATIA for digital design and SIMULIA for analysis and simulation.

Using Dassault Systemes’ tools, RETAL rapidly iterates and visualizes alternatives, reverse‑engineers bottles, and reuses an extensive preform library to slash drawing time (from 1–2 hours to about 10 minutes for reused designs) and complete projects in days (one neck redesign finished in three working days). The digital workflow reduced physical prototyping, enabled light‑weighting that cut material costs, and improved time‑to‑market and customer service while optimizing preform weight/strength performance.

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Andrew Huestis

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