APPE's ThermaLite® Hot-fill, Pasteurizable PET Jar Wins Horners Bottlemaker Award 2013

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The ThermaLite®

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jars demonstrate excellence in design and innovation. The jars are able to hot-fill at temperatures to 95°C (previous industry maximum was 85°C) and be pasteurized (previously not achievable with

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which is a global first). Using a revolutionary double-blow manufacturing process and specialist PET resin, APPE have produced jars that are fully transparent, high gloss and shatterproof.The Horners Award Committee was also impressed by the product's excellent environmental advantages. The jars are 85% lighter with smaller footprint than glass equivalents and require 15% less food-processing energy.Horners judge John Bunker said: "The standard of entries was very high again this year but the APPE jars stood out as meeting all the criteria for a winner including convincing success in the market place."The Horners Bottlemakers Award, established 2002, is run jointly by the Worshipful Company of Horners, an ancient Livery Company of the City of London, and the British Plastics Federation.This year Horners judging panel also awarded a Highly Commended Certificate to the following products: 'The EcoForm aPET Cauldron' by GR8 Engineering Limited and RPC Containers' 'Artemis' Pack.

About Horners Bottlemakers Award

The Horners Bottlemakers Award is awarded annually and run jointly by the Worshipful Company of Horners and the British Plastics Federation. Entries for this award must be a plastic bottle, jar or hollow container, made by any process including extrusion blow, injection blow, injection stretch blow, injection molding, rotational molding or vacuum forming.

(About British Plastics Federation (BPF

The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry — representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.

 

Source: British Plastics Federation