3:32 min
Bottle development and design
Honest Tea is first to adopt Graham Packaging's new lightweight hot-fill PET Escape bottle
USA-Graham Packaging Company, L.P., has introduced the new lightweight champion-the lightest-weight bottle in the smooth-walled, hot-fill category, the perfect match for teas, juices, and isotonic drinks. The new bottle is called the EscapeTM and represents a giant step forward in ...
2:53 min
Compression moulding
Sacmi at Chinaplas: Fastest compression moulding machine in the world for plastic cap production
Notwithstanding the current market slowdown, SACMI’s Closures&Containers team, international industry leader in the manufacture of complete lines for plastic cap production, has significantly accelerated development and research into state-of-the art technical and technological ...
2:56 min
Additives
PolyOne extends sustainable PlanetPak™ Packaging System to color and additive concentrates
PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced it will transition to the PlanetPak™ Packaging System as the standard container for color and additive concentrates in North America. The PlanetPak container ...
1:16 min
Preform moulds
Mold-Masters provides online Hot Runner Justification Tool
For high volume molders, the decision to use a hot runner is an obvious one. The fact is with the high cost of plastic, energy and manpower, hot runners make sense even when small volumes of molded parts are required. Cold runners run slower cycles, consume more energy, use more ...
2:59 min
Bottle development and design
Graham Packaging and TalkingRain team up to advance sustainability in PET hot-fill bottles for vitamin-enhanced waters
There's a good way to remember the name of Graham Packaging's new sustainability leader in a 20-ounce PET stock hot-fill bottle. Just say, Gee, it's light. Indeed, it is light-and it's called the G-LiteTM bottle.Doug MacLean, CEO of TalkingRain Beverage Company in Preston, ...