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New Self-heating Beverage Container
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 27, 2009
Hot-Can has created a revolutionary smart, self-heating packaging system. By combining it’s own patented design and technology with
state of the art manufacturing Hot Can delivers a new and affordable way to drink hot beverages on the go that are also eco-friendly.
Today's active lifestyles demand speed and convenience and Hot-Can delivers this to a variety of consumers including commuters,
executives and busy parents.
Hot-Can is a pioneer in the smart packaging arena and is setting new standards for quality, performance, speed and pricing of
self-heating beverages in the global market whilst being eco-friendly. The special double chambered aluminium can, which contains
the beverage in the outer chamber and holds water and calcium oxide (quicklime) separately in the inner chamber, heats up when the
button at the bottom of the can is pressed. The water then mixes with the quicklime, starting an exothermic reaction that heats the
contents of the outer chamber in less then 3 minutes by 50-55°C to give the consumer a piping hot drink.
Not only is the container recyclable, it also complies with beverage container recycling laws, or “Bottle Bills”, that provide
financial incentive to consumers for recycling. Moreover, this self-heating can, unlike other self-heating products currently in
the market, only produces natural by-products: water, & calcium carbonate (limestone, Ca CO3). This mineral by-product is the same
mineral that constitutes natural coral reefs and is a commonly occurring mineral in our soil. Indeed, this material is frequently
added to soil in common farming practices to enhance the pH balance. Calcium carbonate is also widely used in environmental
protection applications, for example, drinking water treatment and the neutralization of acid rain in forests and lakes. Calcium
carbonate also has a natural buffer effect and works as a pollution filter.
This self-heating can has a low carbon footprint because of its function as well as it construction. Function: it's almost
impossible to boil exactly the right amount of water for a cup of coffee -- there's always a little left over. This means you're
wasting precious power, water and time, not to mention drinking twice-boiled water in your next cup. The Hot-Can heats the perfect
cup of coffee in less then 3 minutes, whilst using up to 65% less energy than a standard kettle in the process. According to Alex
Wissner-Gross, physicist from Harvard University, boiling the kettle for a cup of tea generates 15g of CO2, whereas a hot-can
generates only 35% of that or 5.3g. That may not seem much for one cup of coffee or tea, but when taken into context that the
global consumption is 500 billion hot drinks per annum, its earth changing significant.
Construction: Aluminum, unlike plastic can be recycled again and again. It does not lose any of its strength or quality in the
recycling process. It can be a never-ending process that continues to save energy and resources.
That is why recycling aluminum makes sense. It saves energy—a lot of energy. Today, aluminum can recycling saves about 11.5
billion kilowatt-hours (kWh)—enough electricity to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years. This is A LOT of energy
(and CO2 emission) saved! The process of converting used beverage cans into molten aluminum requires only about 5 percent of the
energy needed to produce aluminum from bauxite ore. That's like improving the miles per gallon on your car 19 times over. By
recycling just one aluminum can, we save enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning about three and a half hours.
Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth’s crust and is the second most commonly used metal. That the aluminum
drink can is the world's most recycled packaging container – (worldwide over 50% of aluminum cans are recycled) combined with the
fact that recycling aluminum drink cans saves up to 95% of the energy needed to make aluminum from its raw materials, the choice
is obvious. Think Green – Think Hot-Can!
Hot-Can was developed in Malaysia by Dato’ Kenneth Kolb, CEO of Hot-Can Malaysia Sdn Bhd, and is manufactured in Kuala Lumpur.
Dato’ Kenneth has spent RM20 million and 5 years to develop the hottest product on the planet. Hot-Can continues to develop
innovative new products such as the self-heating baby formula smart packaging with built-in infant nipple for parents on the
go and food steamers that heat solid food.
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