Have you seen the buzz around Cristalia’s new product launch? It’s Súper Unico! Cristalia replaced their HDPE gallon jug filling line with a BottleOne blow-to-fill PET line. They managed the turnaround in an amazing six months. Out with the old HDPE jug and in with...
Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Crisis Leads to Attaining PCR Goals
Recently I’ve been asked about the use of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) in BottleOne PET containers. PCR is a subset of rPET, which is recycled PET. PCR comes from bottle recovery programs such as curbside recycling and bottle deposit channels. Here are my...
BottleOne Technology Featured in SIPA Presentation
If you didn’t tune into PETnology’s Pack Passion Week 2022, you missed a good one. Even though I like the personal touch of being at the conference, I enjoyed watching the presentations from my desk. SIPA’s presentation, by Paolo De Nardi and Pablo Fiorentini, was my...
BottleOne Technology: A 2020 Year End Conversation
As 2020 comes to a close, it’s time for us all to look back and reflect on a remarkably challenging year. The events of 2020 have affected most of us personally and professionally, and they’ve forced us all to become stronger and more courageous. Here at BottleOne,...
The PET Container That is Drone Deliverable (and ECommerce Ready)
“PET container” and “drone deliverable” aren’t phrases you normally see together in a headline. Recently I published a post with 4 consumer trends reshaping the dairy industry. One of those 4 cornerstone trends is ecommerce. As we’ve seen during the current crisis,...
BottleOne PET Bottle vs. HDPE Jugs: Cost Comparison
Hopefully by now you’ve heard of BottleOne’s revolutionary large format PET bottle with an integrated PET handle. The innovative technology incorporated into each bottle is shaking up the dairy industry and other large format, multi-serve packages. It’s also raising...
Dairy Industry: 4 Consumer Trends Reshaping Business
It has been quite a year for the dairy industry. The current crisis has caused consumers to change almost every aspect of their lives, including their shopping habits. Nobody knows if the recent changes in customer behavior will be permanent. We do know that consumers...
BottleOne: The Revolutionary PET Bottle That Will Change the World
I remember reading about the BottleOne technology back in 2018. The article in Plastics News about this new PET bottle with an integrated PET handle originally caught my attention. It starts out: “For decades, Bill Duelge says, designers and packaging makers have been...
Personal Observations from the Floor of NPE 2024
I had the opportunity to attend this year’s NPE in Orlando, where I saw some interesting developments that I think are worth sharing. Most of the OEMs and aftermarket suppliers we use at BottleOne exhibited at the show, and virtually every one of them had something...
Innovation Motivation: A Quick Analysis
As a primary package, BottleOne technology lives in a world of high stakes brand management and brand equity. Brand management is a very sophisticated, complex, and nuanced profession that supports and grows brand equity. Asking a brand manager to change their primary...
Innovation Motivation Part Two: A Solution in Search of a Problem
In Part One of my series on Innovation Motivation, I offered three different change motivations that drive innovation. These motivations; ambition, fear, and crisis, are universal and create a model useful when assessing the thought processes and behaviors of...