LINKS TO PLASTIC BOTTLE RELATED WEBSITES

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This link page was compiled by Marilyn Bakker who was kind enough to let me post it on this site. 

Current categories include:
Bottlemakers, public companies, USA
Bottlemakers, public companies, outside USA
More bottlemaker sites
Bottlemaking machinery suppliers
Toolmakers
Testing equipment
Recycling
Polymer education

Miscellaneous

For a source of plastic manufacturing sites, visit High Index

For today's news: Go to the Packaging Management website for daily headlines from the packaging world, including bottlemaking. For daily headlines from the plastics world, go to the Plastics News website, which also has the best directory of North American bottlemakers.
Once a year, Plastics News ranks blowmolders by dollar sales. They also show numbers of plants, processes used, and markets served. Subscribers can access all of this information at the website.

Public companies that make bottles, USA

Ball Corporation (BLL)
Financials and spotlights on business segments. A general overview of the Plastic Container Division contains a flow diagram titled "Inside a Ball PET plant."

Consolidated Container Corp.
This company combines the assets of Continental Plastic Container, Franklin Plastics, Reid Plastics, Suiza Foods, Stewart Walker, Liquitane. Hartford Plastics, Contech Plastics, Contour Plastics, Vanguard Plastics, and Double R Plastics. It owns and operates 68 extrusion blow molding plants in North America.

Crown Cork & Seal (CCK)
Site is mainly for financial information. Plastic bottle business mentioned only in the list of "Our Products." News releases are current.

Liqui-Box Corporation (LIQB)
... "a leading source of uniquely innovative products for the bulk packaging and dispensing of all types of liquids" (including refillable water jugs) shows product-line photos and drawings.

Owens-Illinois (OI)
Good overview of all the products O-I is making.
Continental PET Technologies, now "A Unit of Owens-Illinois Plastics Group," has had a site for some time. There are links to other sites, including several about polymer technology.

PVC Container (PVCC)
PVCC specializes in custom containers but uses the Husky/Sidel solution to produce them. Besides bottles, site also lists preforms for sale. The library of stock bottles is rather extensive and well documented.

Silgan Holdings Inc. (SLGN)
Silgan Plastics has its own site, with a facilities map, info about blow processes, and a Performance Highlights section that lists customer certifications.

Public companies, outside USA

Amcor Ltd. (Australia)
With the acquisition of Schmalbach-Lubeca Amcor PET Packaging is now the leading manufacturer of PET  plastic packaging for the global food and beverage industries, with over 80 locations in 21 countries. (46 Plants + 36 On Site Blowing and Injection Sites) Its parent company, Amcor Limited, offers a broad range of packaging solutions and ranks as one of the top five packaging companies in the world. Amcor’s extensive operations have substantially grown since 2002 and now include 242 plants in 40 countries. It is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and has annual sales of approximately US$7 billion.

Southcorp
Southcorp (Australia) is a diversified manufacturing company serving global markets for packaging, wine and appliances, including water heaters. Packaging products include PET plastics, rigid plastic pails, cans, cartons and printed films. A 98/11/12 release tells about acquisition of Amcor's Australian non-PET bottlemaking business.

Consumers Packaging Inc. (Canada)
A major force in glass containers, they acquired PET-bottlemaker Pet-Pak Packaging Inc.  in late 1997. April report at site tells about Pet-Pak and what it does.

PLM Group
As of 99/2/19, Rexam plc had acquired 99% of PLM's shares. PLM's especially attractive site provides financials of course, but also market information.

Pechiney Group
Pechiney is traded in Paris and New York. At the site there had been some discussion about beverage cans, but no mention American National Can's bottlemaking operations. Now a press release dated 99/1/29 reports acquisition of Pet Plas (UK) and provides some bottlemaking info.

More bottlemaker sites:

Able Industries (UK)
Producer of PET preforms and containers.

Altira, Inc.
Bottlemaker in Miami FL

Automatic Liquid Packaging
Go there to see an illustrated description of the blow/fill/seal concept, and info about ALP's contract manufacturing services.

Captive Plastics
The site is still under construction, but the Technical section now contains information about the steps involved in product development.

Chess Plastics
Chess Plastics is an expert in the area of injection molding. They provide a complete solution from initial design through to finished components.

Custom Bottle/Lerman Container Co.
www.bottles.com, one of the best URLs, was taken early on by distributor Lerman Container/ bottlemaker Custom Bottle. Site has been visited over 40,000 times since it opened in May 1996. Their catalog is there with interactive search capability. Content includes: guide to resins, decorating, technical information, regulations.

Encon, Inc 
US producer of preforms. Web site features their Viper "Quick Strike" Preform System.

Femit Plastic AG
Swiss producer of PET preforms and bottles has interesting illustrations of High-Stretch PET.

Graham Companies
This simple site started with nothing but manufacturing plant locations. As of 99/3/5, it is being reconstructed.

Hilltop Products Insulation Sleevings Ltd
Hilltop Products is a specialist supplier of high quality insulation sleevings and heat shrink tubings for commercial and industrial applications.

Leyland Industries
Canadian bottlemaker has information about closures, specs, labels, decorating.

Monarch Plastics Group
Site shows plant locations, lists capabilities.

PET Power (Holland)
One of the most attractive and useful bottlemaker sites. Along with photos of the newly expanded production facility there is an illustrated discussion of the ISBM process, full text of the company's newsletters, photos of the full product range, and interactive search capability (volumes, neck finishes, etc.). Link to a still- under-construction site for Captive Plastics, US dealer for PET Power.

WebPac Ltd. (UK)
A developing interactive site that plans to have links to suppliers of containers and closures worldwide. PET Power was one of the founding members. Today the members include RPC Containers (UK), and Nadel Industries USA (site under construction).

Plastic Bottle Corp.
The nice URL www.plasticbottle.com, was taken by small bottlemaker Plastic Bottle Corp. Content includes: SPI neck finish specs, other specs, and an article about "The Blow Molding Process."  They say they have the largest selection of automotive additive containers in the world available from a single source. Updated 98/12.

Polytainer/CMD Corporation
The West Coast's "largest independent manufacturer of extrusion and injection blow molded products and injection molded specialties. "

Portola Packaging Inc.
Portola is a leading supplier of bottle closures and bottling line equipment, and it also supplies some bottles outside the USA. Of interest at the site an "injection molded" [stretch-blown] polycarbonate 5 gallon water jug, Technical specs included.

Reid Plastics
Site tells the history of the company, shows refillable water jugs, stock water, dairy bottles.

RXI Plastics
"Your single-source solution for plastics and closures." Site of the West Virginia Division shows photos of the product line.

Tetra Pak
As of 99/3/1 a redesigned site is up and running. Bottles represent just a small part of the product line.

Vital Pharma Inc.
In addition to its Blow Fill Seal Machinery Manufacturing Divison, they have a contract packaging site and its own validation group.

VXL Packaging Systems (UAE)
Located at Sharjah Airport, United Arab Emirates this "is perhaps the only manufacturing facility in the Middle East, Africa region fully dedicated to the development of PET packaging for diverse applications. "

Waddington Jaycare
Visit this site to see what a website can do, especially the animation of the company's proprietary Modular Mold Technology process.

National Association of Container Distributors (NACD)
A good starting place for links to distributors and their product offerings.  See also Kranson Industries.

Bottlemaking machinery

AG Packaging Australia Pty Ltd.
Supplies and installs individual machines or complete turn-key installations. Expertise covers P.E.T Blow molding Equipment, Filling and Packaging lines for Water, Juice, Isotonics, Carbonated Beverages and Household Chemicals.

Amsler Equipment Inc.
PET stretch blow molding machines. Specializes in fully electric machines and accessories as well as container development, preform sourcing, mold testing and pilot production runs.

Aoki Technical Laboratory
The site has a history of the company, patents, and specs for all of the company's SBM1 machines. About 22% of exports go to the Americas.

B&G Products LLc (since 1979)
Photos and descriptions of the XT and UWM series SBM machines; and worldwide service/spares of XT, UWM, Cincinnati RHB(R), and Sidel(R) SBO(R) machinery

Bekum International
"We are the world's leading manufacturer of blow molding machines and corresponding technology." General descriptions of the BM, BA, and RBS series machines, sales offices. News section contains items about specific machines and applications.

Chumpower Machinery Co, Ltd.
Established in 1995 this Taiwanese company manufactures PET stretch blow molding machinery.

Datacolor
Supplier of instruments, software and systems to communicate and manage color in the plastics industry and many others. Datacolor’s plastics technology helps to achieve accurate color on a wide range of polymers and fibers while managing large colorant inventories, and streamlines the process to deliver color on time and on target.

Davis-Standard
"World leadership in extrusion process technology." Link to Blow Molding section features Industrial Blow Molding systems, only brief mention of bottles.

Electra Form Inc. (EFI)
EFI makes precision molds and molding systems for the plastics industry. PET preform molds, Reheat Stretch Blow Machines, Preform Cooling Cells, Preform Crystallizers.

Gerosa
One of the leading Italian manufacturers of plants for the washing and filling of kegs, and plants for the blowing and filling of PET containers. They offer an integrated modular system for the blowing, filling and capping of PET bottles. Specs on PET machines, advertorial from Beverage World International.

Heins PCM
Canadian manufacturer of Extrusion Blow Machines, heads, tooling, Spin Trimmers and Leak detectors.

Husky Injection Molding Systems
Not much to see now except for the annual report.

Jomar Corp.
Illustrated description of the IBM process, descriptions of IBM, EBM, and SBM1 machines.

Kortec
Coinjection technology is described, and an animated diagram shows resins flowing into a preform mold. At K'98 they would be at the booth of R&D Tool and Engineering to discuss shelf life studies on coinjected beer bottles.

Krones
Krones has long had one of the niftiest sites on the net. Now its new Contiform SBM2 machine is there too, with details in pdf format. There is a description and diagram of the water-bottling line at Rosbach that incorporates a Contiform blowmolder and a Superbloc rinse/fill/cap/label machine.

Milacron
Cincinnati Milacron changed its name to Milacron, Inc. and its stock symbol to MZ.  On 98/10/1, Milacron completed the acquisition of the Johnson Controls (JCI) Plastics Machinery Division, now called Uniloy Milacron. The Uniloy Milacron site,  one of the best BM machinery sites, has links to descriptions of machines, some data sheets can be downloaded. Also a section on molds.

Mag-Plastic
Site of Mag-Plastic Group, Jean-Gallay (Switzerland). Information about SBM machines, and list of preforms available from the Toronto location.

Magic
Site of Graphics International (Canada) includes information about EBM and SBM machinery from Magic (Italy).

Netstal
Brief descriptions of PET preform systems, charts of preform designs and cycle times. The online version of Netstal News April 1997 has an overview of all two-component 2C processes with color diagrams.

Nissei ASB Machine Co. Ltd
This producer of one-step and two-step SBM-PET machinery discusses the differences between the two, and lists the pros and cons of each.

Plastimac
Site has info about home-city Milan. Wide range of packaging machinery includes EBM.

Rocheleau Tool and Die
Producer of CE and RS  EBM machines.

Rubinco Ltd.
Used machinery dealer from Even Yuhuda Israel. Company removes lines from factories that are upgrading and market them. This includes the
beverage, food, and dairy industry. Also offers engineering of ground up factory, turn key design if required.

Safi-Plast

Spanish manufacturer of extrusion blow molding machinery

Sidel
Site has the Sidel Group annual report, some charts about annual sales trends, press releases. The Sidel Operations are now broken out as: Blow-molding and Filling; Engineering and Conveyor Systems; Secondary Packaging and Palletization. News section has an overview of plastic beer bottles made today on Sidel machines. See also Gebo Industries.

SIG (formerly known as Krupp)
A big sprawling site with a link to SIG Plastics (from Jan. 01, 2002 SIG Beverages), with links to SIG Corpoplast, SIG Kautex, SIG Blowtec, SIG Hamba and others. A press release section contains releases on new machinery and interesting projects.

Sipa
Sipa (Italy) is a supplier of Semiconductor Systems and Plastic Packaging Systems. Site has links to both and to owner Zoppas Industries. Concise descriptions of each of the PET blowmolding systems.

Techne
Site of Molding Technology, manufacturers' representative, includes information about Technipak Engineering Italia and Techne North America.

Urola
Urola (Spain) makes rotary EBM machines, and linear and rotary PET stretch-blow machines.  Site shows illustrations of both.

Wilmington Machinery
Rotary blow molding systems, structural foam. On-line version of product literature.

Toolmakers

AAD Precision Mould                                                                                                                             Designer and Manufacturer of blow molds for the plastic container industry. Their facility is equipped with modern mold-making equipment and design software. They service customers in North America and around the world.

Blow Mold Tooling Inc.
Manufacturer of injection blow, extrusion blow, and stretch blow molds for various industries, turn-key solutions, sampling, product design

Century Die Company (CDC)
CDC makes molds for EBM, IBM, and SBM. Site shows engineering capabilities, provides links to related websites. 

Hallink MouldsLtd.                                                                                                                                              Turn-key supplier, offering: stretch blow moulds, preform mould components, change parts, product design, stretch-blow mould testing services and supply of sales samples for bottles in PET and PP, as well as Rapid Prototyping services

Hammonton Mold Co. Inc.
Manufacturer of injection blow and stretch blow molds for the plastic bottle industry, mold design,  3D computer modeling for conceptual visualization and sales, processing assistance, sampling

International Mold and Production LLC
Company specializes in rapid prototyping and sampling using both domestic and Far Eastern suppliers.

R&D Tool and Engineering(USA)
Site has a long list of equipment and moldmaking services. Article about D.K. Moulds (UK).

Ryka Blow Molds Ltd. (Canada)
Site shows mold-making capabilities and issues of Ryka newsletter Cycle Times.

Tooling Holland
Site of Tooling Holland and Tooling Preform Systems (Holland) in English and Dutch.  PET preform systems, coinjection, and more, with film clips.

Imtech Design

A Fantastic Cad viewer for  iges, stl, vda, Pro E,Catia, Solidworks, Parasolids, dxf, dwg and more

Manufacturer Of Conveyor Belting, Plastic & Rubber Products                                                                                                    Manufacturer and suppliers of conveyor belting, plastic &
rubber products whether rubber gaskets, rubber matting, rubber tubing,
sheet rubber, rubber hoses and hose fittings.
 

Testing equipment

AGR International Inc.
Inspection Systems for the Packaging Industry, newsletter.

American Plastics Council
Go here for information on recycling plastics of all kinds.

Napcor
Go here for information on recycling polyester bottles (PET and PEN)

Pressco Technology Inc       High-speed vision inspection systems for on-line process monitoring with automatic part rejection, trend, and reject analysis. 

Recycling                                                                                                                                                                                              

BMC Controls

Raymond Communications
Go here for information on solid waste and recycling legislation in the USA and Europe. Publisher of State Recycling Laws Update and Recycling Laws International, sponsor of the Take it Back conferences.

Solid Waste and Recycling (Canada)
This rich site includes articles from issues of the magazine.

Waste Disposal
Waste collection online shop allows you to navigate to all products on the web site.
 

Polymer education

IDES - The Plastics Web™
A vertical search engine for the plastics industry.

The Macrogalleria
    The Department of Polymer Science at the University of Southern Mississippi rightly calls the award-winning Macrogalleria a "cyber wonderland of polymer fun." The fun requires a piece of software called Chime (click on the link at the site to download). See what all the polymers look like in different display formats, going round and round or not.  See how they work: look at crystalline and amorphous regions, learn about the glass transition via real-life analogies. Learn all about Ziegler-Natta polymerization, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, and much much more.

Polymers and Liquid Crystals
    Polymers & Liquid Crystals is a cooperative effort between the Department of Physics and the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) at Kent State University. This project is part of the ALCOM educational outreach program and is intended to demonstrate the advantages and capabilities of the hypertext medium as an educational tool.
    "The Virtual Textbook contains many features that can not be found in a conventional reference. In addition to comprehensive text, 3-D animations help the user understand complex structures. Video footage from actual experiments provides valuable perspective. In the unique 'virtual laboratory,' the user is able to perform his or her own experiments in areas such as polymer growth, phase transformations, and crystalline optics. Full color still images and sound complement the entire program. "

Injection Molding Review 
Injection molding thermoplastics and injection molding machine manufacturers review

Miscellaneous