Blow molding |
P&G uses richly designed bottles for new, perfume-scented ‘fabric enhancers.’
PET bottles are a major segment in the U.S. packaging market and are being used for a whole host of products.
Contract manufacturer/packager Guy & O’Neill, Inc. rolls out an ambitious plan that incorporates sustainability into wet wipe manufacturing, materials, and packaging.
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.
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.
Bioplastics: The very name suggests sustainability, but that shouldn’t exempt the materials from an objective, probing analysis.
Custom PET bottles replace stock HDPE bottles for Haviland spa chemicals.
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.
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, Bolton, CT, has developed a line of car-care products with a high-performance formulation that creates high gloss on auto surfaces.
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.
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.
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.
indicates an article that was submitted directly to this Web site by the supplier, and was not handled by the PW editorial staff.