For the first time, Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) is making its oPTI™ lightweight foamed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container blow molding process available for dairy applications via both stock and custom options.The process enables up to 50% improvement in ultraviolet (UV) ...

A featherweight – the Krones PET lite 4.4, a 330-millilitre container weighing just ...

  Lighter, yes, but not at just any price. On supermarket shelves, ...

VOLVIC Natural Mineral Water today launched its new GREENER BOTTLE made partially from sugarcane waste. Volvic has developed brand new technology to create a 100% recyclable PET plastic using this renewable plant material, and is the first company to introduce it in the UK. “The ...

Graham Packaging Company Inc.'s subsidiary in the United Kingdom, Graham Packaging Plastics Chalgrove, has teamed up with StarBrands Ltd. to unveil new PET packaging aimed at helping to revitalize the sales of Sqezy wash-up liquid.The historic brand, which popularized the phrase Easy ...

The popularity of the Product Solutions Lab (PSL), delivery times up to twice as fast as the competition, the recent addition of the Genesis Hot Runner System – combined with effective communications with non-English speaking customers throughout Europe – are but a few of the reasons ...

What do you call a truckload of improved PET bottles that weighs half a ton less than before, yet contains 7,650 bottles more? Answer: A much-improved carbon footprint. AriZona Iced Tea is getting the benefit of that improved carbon footprint from Graham Packaging's new ...

ISRI established the Design for Recycling® award to honor a program, company or individual whose product or program design has incorporated one or more of the following: A reduction in the number of different recyclable materials A reduction or elimination of hazardous ...

  Beverages today are designed to do more than simply quench the thirst. ...

From this month Marks & Spencer will be the first retailer to convert its entire range of mini (25cl) still wine bottles to PET – saving a mega 525 tonnes of packaging a year – the equivalent of three 747 jumbo jets! The range includes 19 bottles of red, white and rose wine. The ...