WAVE Can

The WAVE can product is a new high-density polyethylene (HDPE) canister used to hold lubricants, coolants, or windscreen washer fluid. It is lighter and therefore uses less HDPE plastic raw material while improving its performance in terms of mechanical resistance (especially resistance to dropping without the can bursting). Its new design also allows better optimization in terms of logistics, ergonomics, and product restitution. It is available in different sizes, from 0.25L to 7L.

TotalEnergies Ecosolutions advantage

The WAVE can differ from the previous can in the following environmental aspects:

Thanks to the lighter weight of the can, the use of resources is reduced, especially HDPE. It allows energy savings too, linked to the canister molding process. NB: the caps also have a reduced mass but are not considered in the calculation of environmental gains because the previous data are only available in Europe.
The WAVE can allow better optimization of palletization, integration of recycled HDPE, better ergonomics, and product restitution: better grip and control of the product flow which improves pouring precision, reduction of dead volumes and crevices which limited restitution. average

The Environmental performance

With the aim of reducing the carbon footprint of its cans, TotalEnergies has developed a new packaging with better environmental performance than the reference (the previous canister). For the same services, the WAVE can allow:

An average weight reduction of 14% thanks to the new design: lower ratio of can surface to packaged volume, work on the dead volume (reduction of about 10%), ecodesign with appendix removed (which reduces the quantity of plastic used in the process), the shape of the handle ...
14 % reduction in CO2eq. emissions on average
14 % reduction in energy consumption on average