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New look spurs paint sales

Its closure and container are stock items, and the label doesn't exactly stretch the envelope either. But the new paint package introduced last October by Colorations, Inc., has done wonders for sales.

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"First quarter sales were up three-fold over the same period a year ago," says the Cleveland firm's owner/operator, Joel Goobich.

He attributes that success to a more functional package than the round polyethylene jar and 89-mm CT closure it replaces. The injection-molded 63-mm Flapper® polypropylene closure from Weatherchem (Twinsburg, OH) is easy to open and close. What's more, paint can be poured cleanly through a triangular opening under one flap or users can dip brushes, sponges or fingers through the half-moon-shaped opening under the opposite flap.

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