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Ela Fruscione

Oct 31, 2000

Zapata installed new injection molding equipment from Husky (Bolton, Ontario, Canada) to run the FDA-approved container, which is molded 2-up. Introduced in Fall 2000, a variety of pails are available that can contain 4 to 20 liters of product.

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