Manufacturing Industry

Amcor makes PET beer bottles.(Brief Article)

Plastics News, October, 2000 by Lauzon, Michael

Amcor Twinpak-North America Inc. has started commercial production of PET beer bottles for three microbreweries. Separately, Amcor Twinpak announced the opening of a large PET container manufacturing and warehouse facility in Brampton, Ontario. The Mississauga, Ontario, firm said its Amcor PET Technologies research division has contracts to supply an undetermined number of the containers to Michigan Brewing Co., Pony Express Brewing Co.

and Taylor & Bate. The containers are three-layer constructions with a middle layer of oxygen-absorbing Amosorb 3000 resin supplied by BP Amoco Polymers Inc. The brewers chose PET to differentiate their products from glass bottles and metal cans. PET is well-suited for some outdoor venues, brewing officials noted in Amcor's...

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