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West Penn Plastic, Inc: PET project

A literature sheet from West Penn Plastic (West New Castle, PA) details the work the company did for Hershey Chocolate U.S.A. in developing a PET container for Hershey's Non-Dairy Flavored Coffee Creamer.

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West Penn was able to injection-mold a multi-cavity, thin-walled PET container for Hershey when other companies refused.

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