Aoki Blow-Moulding Machine Is Energy Efficient
Meredith-Springfield has equipped its facility with two moulding machines and more space to deliver environmentally safe blow-moulded plastic products. Blow-moulding is the plastic conversion process used to make bottles, containers and other hollow articles from plastic resin pellets. Step by step, more plastic bottles that contain liquids, food and health and beauty substances are being made with PET resin. PET is polyethylene terephthalate and may exist both as an amorphous (transparent) and as a semi-crystalline material. A thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family, it is used in beverage, food and other liquid containers, thermoforming applications and engineering resins often in combination with glass fibre. In other words, it is the type of improved barrier technology plastic or non-leaching plastic that will not allow for carcinogenic or other contamination of liquids that are contained within. PET is what the plastic industry calls 'green' or 'soda bottl...