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Sustainable Packaging
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Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Bottling water for millions
Tak Fat now supplies pure bottled drinking water to eight million consumers in China's Guangzhou area. The next target is the total Guangdong province of 69 million, and then on to the rest of the country. Integrated 5-gal line delivers 400 bph.
May 31, 1997
Water: Page 26
Sustainability
Plastics' broken loop
Recycled-content legislation has receded, environmentalists have been quiet and virgin PET is plentiful and cheap. Packagers are divided on whether to continue their commitments to use post-consumer resin in the U.S. market.
May 31, 1997
Contract Packaging
Rhapsody in blue
Rochester, NY-based Global Beverage's striking cobalt blue-tinted polyethylene terephthalate container is credited with firing up sales of its Bl Botol brand spring water since it debuted about 10 months ago.
April 30, 1997
Containers
Bottle shape builds brand
Bottled water producer Avalon Beverage Company, Glen Allen, VA, is attempting to differentiate its imported spring water by switching from a stock to a custom proprietary PET bottle.
October 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Premier Plastics grows PET bottle business
California blow molder is among the first in the U.S. to use a 24-cavity injection/stretch blow-molding machine that increases 1/2-liter PET bottle output by at least 40 million per year.
July 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
PET water bottles flow through filling
AquaPenn rinses, fills and caps PET bottles on a bloc system twice as fast as a former line, producing 1/2-L and 20-oz bottles of spring water. Improved bottle handling slashes downtime, resulting in a nearly 20% increase in efficiency.
May 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Mexican Coke bottler gets in shape
Coca-Cola's 'true contour' PET bottle is a big success in several parts of Mexico. Promotora blow-molding plant decorates with a shrink label of OPP applied with glue.
November 30, 1995
Converting equipment
New blow-molding process for heat-set PET bottles
Monotherm technology produces PET bottles that can be filled at temperatures as high as 95°C. New Age beverages and returnable/refillable bottles are target applications.
October 31, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
How purchasing copes with higher prices (sidebar)
Purchasers skewer vendors for increasing prices
July 31, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Single-stage molding propels Premier Plastics
Custom blowmolder on West Coast adds an injection/stretch blow-molding machine to tap the bottled water market. Health For Life Brands of Arizona is first user of Premier's 500mL bottle.
July 31, 1995
Flexible packaging
Purity pervades Gleneagles' filling process
From natural springs to cleanroom filling conditions, Gleneagles ensures product purity that can be seen in glass-like PET.
May 31, 1995
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Liquid fillers
Packaging Dynamics' (Ron-konkoma, NY) line of liquid fillers is available in a variety of designs, including gravity/pressure, volumetric, and time/pressure.
November 30, 1994
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Dry Aseptic Filling Decontamination System
Shibuya Hoppmann offers Dry Aseptic Filling Solution for beverage and dairy manufacturers, which use dry hydrogen peroxide vapor to sterilize PET or HDPE bottles for sensitive, shelf-stable, and high-viscosity products.
Filler for Water and Still Beverages
Recyclable Bottle Carrier
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