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Clever Grip Design Gives Juice Bottle Extra Lift.


A 64-oz PET bottle designed for Ocean Spray Cranberries in Lakeville-Middleboro, Mass., breaks new ground in PET bottle grip design and functionality. "No other bottle we are aware of incorporates a logo in the grip itself," says Luis LUIS Label Use Information System (US EPA)  Carvallo, the PET project manager at Graham Packaging, York York, former name of Toronto, Canada
York, Ont.: see Toronto, Ont., Canada.
York, city, England
York, city (1991 pop. 123,126) and district, North Yorkshire, N England, at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss rivers.
, Pa., which collaborated in the design. The bottle is molded mold 1  
n.
1. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.

2. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.

3. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
 at a Graham Packaging facility in Bordentown, N.J.

Deep dimples on each side of the bottle's bell are molded in the shape of Ocean Spray's wave logo, with the company name appearing as raised letters inside the waves. But waves and letters also help give the grip anti-slip properties. "The integration of bottle appearance and design with bottle functionality is growing," says John Denner For other uses, see Johann Christoph Denner.
Denner is a supermarket chain in Switzerland. It is Switzerland's third largest supermarket chain after Migros and Coop (Switzerland) with 11.4% market share.
, Graham's director of PET packaging development. He adds that secondary support designed into the bottle through the panels resists vacuum force in hot-filling.
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Publication:Plastics Technology
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2001
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