Updated: 8/15/24 What plastic packaging is best for your new product? How does environmental sustainability impact the answer? Should you use PET plastic or HDPE? If you Google these questions, you’ll likely see a dozen different answers, most of which all approach...
How HDPE Milk Jugs Are Made and a Great Alternative
Did you know that most dairy plants produce their own HDPE milk jugs? They do! In this article, we explain the current production process, and then we'll introduce you to a better way of going about it. If you have ever wanted to know how HDPE milk jugs are made - and...
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’s PET Bottles Critiqued by Plastics Expert, Chris DeArmitt, PhD, FRSC
If you are a regular reader of our blog, you know we are passionate about our BottleOne PET bottles. BottleOne is an affordable large capacity, standard grade PET bottle with an integrated PET handle. Our unique handle is integrated and molded into the preform (it is...
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...
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...