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April 2008
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Downy bottle conjures cosmetic appeal

05/07/08

Content Type Image  P&G uses richly designed bottles for new, perfume-scented ‘fabric enhancers.’

What’s happening in high-barrier PET?

04/08

Content Type Image PET bottles are a major segment in the U.S. packaging market and are being used for a whole host of products.

Wet wipe maker pioneers ‘Eco-Choice’ sustainability platform

03/08

Content Type Image  Contract manufacturer/packager Guy & O’Neill, Inc. rolls out an ambitious plan that incorporates sustainability into wet wipe manufacturing, materials, and packaging.

Artegraft switches to copolyester for vascular graft tubes

01/08

Content Type Image  Company transitions from cylindrical glass culture tubes for its collagen vascular grafts to a copolyester-based tube with a flat side, helping to prevent breakage and save money.

Cooperation proves critical in tube manufacturing

01/08

Content Type Image  In this Q&A, Mel O’Leary, Jr., president and CEO of Meredith-Springfield Associates, describes how copolyester resin and supplier cooperation helped make the Artegraft tube.

Analyzing bioplastic packaging’s future

12/07

Content Type Image  Bioplastics: The very name suggests sustainability, but that shouldn’t exempt the materials from an objective, probing analysis.

Spa chemical bottles make splash in market

11/07

Content Type Image  Custom PET bottles replace stock HDPE bottles for Haviland spa chemicals.

Car-care pack gets smart

10/07

Content Type Image  Even car care products have joined the smart-packaging crowd. A great example of this is Simoniz Liquid Diamond powered car polish from Simoniz Corp., Bolton, CT. It’s the flagship product in a line of six products launched in early 2006.

Water bottles deliver refreshing environmental twist

10/07

Content Type Image  Amid a wave of anti-bottled water sentiment, light-weighted bottles and bottles made with corn-based PLA flow into the market in the United States and in Europe.

Simoniz line adds distinction, clarity to auto products

09/07

Content Type Image Simoniz, Bolton, CT, has developed a line of car-care products with a high-performance formulation that creates high gloss on auto surfaces.

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Contract packager fills PEN bottles with personal care products for Wal-Mart

Content Type Image  At contract packager Lake Consumer Products, polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) bottles from Graham Packaging are conveyed single-file in pucks from left to right through a two-station volumetric filling process for feminine personal care products on Lake's line that relies almost exclusively on Terco equipment.

Le Nature: Blow molding preforms into PET bottles

Content Type Image At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, preforms drop down a chute and into the blow-molding machines from Krones.

Le Nature: Injection-molding of preforms

Content Type Image At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, preforms molded in-house on Husky injection molding systems drop into large totes for removal to the blow-molding machines.

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