Stretch Blow Molding
Hot-Fill Packaging: OPP and 'Panel-Less' PET Bottles Grab the Spotlight
Improved clarity and cost competitiveness, added to its inherent heat resistance, are reviving OPP’s prospects in hot-fill barrier containers. But hot-fill PET containers are raising the bar with higher productivity and ‘panel-less’ bottle designs.
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Teeny-Tiny PET Vial Is Injection-Blow Molded
Sabel Plastechs Inc. doesn’t flinch at challenging development projects that stretch the limits of blow molding.
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Blow Molders Save Big On Compressed Air
Molders of PET containers are paying special attention these days to the large amounts of compressed air used in their blow molding operations and the huge energy cost associated with generating it.
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Branched PVDF Gains Melt Strength For Film, Blow Molding, Thermoforming
Chain branching opens up lots of new processing opportunities for these fluoropolymers.
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What's New at the Show in BLOW MOLDING
There will be a strong emphasis on energy savings in blow molding machinery at K 2007.
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Is Clear Handleware Ready for Prime Time?
Clear handled bottles got a kick start earlier this year when nationally recognized Simply Orange Juice Co., Apopka, Fla., an affiliate of the Minute Maid division of The Coca-Cola Co., decided to bottle its orange juice in extrusion blow molded 89-oz copolyester containers.
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PET Container Stress Cracking: Myth Versus Science
Since the introduction of the first 2-liter, one-piece PET bottle by Continental Can Co. in Fall River, Mass., in 1978, the PET container’s nemesis has been stress cracking.
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New Barrier Options Debut at SPE ANTEC
Innovative barrier technologies to boost the shelf-life of PET bottles were introduced at the May SPE ANTEC 2007 conference in Cincinnati.
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Chemical Purging: When and How to Do It Right
Extrusion blow molders are sometimes skeptical of chemical purging compounds (CPCs), and they have a point.
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Global Competition - High Shipping Costs Give U.S. Blow Molders an Edge
When it comes to foreign competition, blow molders feel relatively invulnerable in their biggest market–bottles.
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