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Flowcontrol bottle for motor oil

A custom 5-L oil container for leading UK producer Millers Oils features a unique dispensing closure that allows the oil to be fully controllable and to flow freely and easily.

Flowcontrol means no glugging or spills.
Flowcontrol means no glugging or spills.

RPC Containers-Halstead is the supplier of the innovative closure, which has been jointly designed by RPC and Millers Oils from an original concept devised by Millers to solve a long-standing problem in the market.  Lubricating oils have traditionally been very difficult to control during pouring and this often leads to glugging, spills, and splashes.  The situation has been exacerbated in recent years with the many different oil specifications that are now available.

“This has led to an increase in the use of 5-L containers for each specialist variety rather than larger bulk packs,” explains Millers Oils joint managing director Nevil Hall.  “With these different variants, it was necessary to find an on-pack solution that enabled them to be poured easily with no danger of glugging.”

Millers’ solution (see video) is a closure incorporating a special valve that twists open and shut to control the flow of the oil.  As the oil is dispensed out of the spout, a smaller opening below sucks air back through the closure and into the base of the container.  This prevents a vacuum forming to keep the oil flowing freely.

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