| BASF PS-I bottle trial in progress
Packaging News, 01 April 2008
BASF is testing a bottle made from impact-resistant polystyrene (PS-I) for milk and yoghurt drinks with a view to launching the product this year.
The firm developed the container with plastic bottle producer Alpla and originally showed it at plastics exhibition K2007 in Germany last October. It said it was too early to say where the bottle would be available.
BASF¡¯s type BX 3580 polystyrene has been specially made for the bottles and can be processed by injection blow moulding and injection stretch blow moulding.
The firm said the bottles could be processed on machines used for PET.
BASF said PS-I was 25% lighter then PET, did not have to be pre-dried and used less compressed air.
However, there could be disadvantages with its disposal, since the PS-I bottles have to be disposed of in the general packaging waste collection system. |
