Rigid Containers

Food & Drug Packaging, May, 1999 by Jennifer Billings

SILVER: The custom bottle shape for Motor Up America's line of automotive products tightens family identity to the line and generates sales. The slim black bottle from Zuckerman-Honickman Inc. (call (610) 692-0100 or mark Item #516) is easily maneuvered around an automobile engine to where the product needs to be poured.

BRONZE: Marketed on television through infomercials and also at retail stores, Feldman Industries' GS-27 scratch remover is packaged in high-density polyethylene tubes with ethylene vinyl alcohol barrier. The tubes, provided by All-Pak Inc. (call (800) 245-2283 or mark Item #517), feature eye-catching six-color graphics and half-tones and a hang hole feature for retail display, granting more display presence than a shelf location.

Decorated aluminum tubes offer dynamic graphics for short production runs

Labelimage[TM] graphic transfer system enables multicolored, photo-quality graphics onto aluminum tubes in quantities as low as 1,000 units, facilitating quality decoration of short production runs. The quality of the computer-controlled images and the 16,000 colors available outshines other packages on the shelf, according to the manufacturer.

M-Deco, A Div. of Montebello Pkg., (732) 577-6589

Item #440

Oblong containers with sprayers feature hand grips for easy handling

Available in 24- and 32-ounce sizes, Sprayer Grip Oblongs enhance a product's shelf appeal and can be customized by adding your company logo to both sides of the neck area using custom slugs. The oriented polyethylene terephthalate (OPET) oblongs are well suited for household chemical, automotive or pet and vet products.

Kaufman Container Co., (800) 824-4119

Item #441

Plastic bottle line matches material and style to a product's marketing objective

Line of plastic stock and custom bottles are made with extrusion, injection and stretch blow molding techniques with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene and polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins. HDPE and polypropylene packers are available in sizes from 30 to 1,500 cubic centimeters. HDPE and LDPE cylinders are available in sizes from 1 to 32 ounces. PET round packers are available in sizes from 75 to 400 cubic centimeters in hinge guard or continuous-thread neck finishes. PET modern round liquid bottles are offered in sizes from 4 to 16 ounces. Select squares, oblongs, ovals, Boston rounds, reverse tapers, stress and straight-sided jars are also available, including popular vitamin styles

TIM Plastics Inc., (410) 287-6944

Item #442

Faceted oblong bottles add an upscale appearance to traditional oblongs

Family of faceted oblong containers have the traditional oblong shape with an interesting upscale appearance. A chef's hat or mushroom closure adds a nice finishing touch to the 4- and 12-ounce sizes. Oblongs are available in 4-, 8-and 12-ounces sizes in white, natural and colors. The natural bottle allows the contents of colored products to show though. The 4-ounce oblong has a 20-415 finish, the 8-ounce oblong has a 24-415 finish and the 12-ounce size has a 28-415 finish. In-house decorating services include silk-screening and pressure-sensitive label application.