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For years, the national news media have reported stories of plastic containers for water, food, and health and beauty products leaching potentially harmful chemicals into their contents. While chemical levels can be very low on a single item basis, it is the continued, daily exposure to these chemicals that has consumers concerned and is quickly changing the plastics industry.
In general, blow molding is the plastic conversion process used to make bottles, containers and other hollow articles from plastic resin pellets. Environmentally-safe blow molded plastic PET products, such as those made by Meredith-Springfield, are now at the core of the health and beauty, and food container industry. Step by step, more plastic bottles that contain liquids, food and health and beauty substances are being made with PET resin.
PET, which is essentially polyester, may exist both as an amorphous (transparent) and as a semi-crystalline material. Made using improved barrier technology, PET is a non-leaching plastic that will not allow carcinogens or other contaminants to enter the liquid contents of the container. PET is what the plastic industry calls "green" or "soda-bottle" plastic, which is widely recycled by consumers. |
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In 2010, Meredith-Springfield invested in machines and proprietary "Direct Heatcon" technology that enable us to produce highly technical bottles using a cost-efficient, energy-saving, one-step process.
Since then, 60% of our PET growth has come from a partnership with B&G Foods of Parsippany, NJ. Among B&G's many nationally recognized brands are Vermont Maid Maple Syrup and Maple Groves' sugar-free and low-sugar syrup brands, for which Meredith-Springfield is the exclusive supplier of containers.
The remaining 30% of our PET capacity has gone toward containers for American Distilling & Manufacturing, Inc., of East Hampton, CT, the world's largest producer of Distilled Witch Hazel Extracts and other botanical products for leading international pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies.
"Our partnership with Meredith-Springfield is vitally important because the company understands the environmental changes that a health and beauty product company needs to adapt to, and their attention to quality and cost-effective pricing is unparalleled."
-President, American Distilling & Manufacturing
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