Manufacturing Industry
Container makers have transparent intentions.(Cover Story)(products from Owens-Illinois Inc. and Pechiney Plastic Packaging Inc.)
Plastics News, December, 2002 by Pryweller, Joseph
Byline: Joseph Pryweller Clear is here. Transparent is apparent in plastic packaging. Bad poetry aside, two plastic container makers are unveiling food and beverage products that they say could speed the conversion of containers to plastic from their metal or glass forebears. They are doing it by showing off see-through containers that they think will add consumer appeal.
The transfer to plastic containers in itself is not that new. Since the late 1990s, a rush of new plastic bottles and food containers has hit store shelves. The parade of new replacement products continues unabated, said Thomas Dunn, director of development, technology and marketing for Printpack Inc., a film extruder and converter based in Atlanta. Examples include single-serve...
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