GE Launches Center for Water-Bottle Development.Last month, GE Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass., opened a Water Bottle Development Center dedicated to 5-gal polycarbonate A category of plastic materials used to make a myriad of products, including CDs and CD-ROMs. bottles. Demand for these bottles is now expanding beyond the workplace into the home. Scarcity Scarcity The basic economic problem which arises from people having unlimited wants while there are and always will be limited resources. Because of scarcity, various economic decisions must be made to allocate resources efficiently. of clean water in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. is another source of growing demand. GE's new WBDC WBDC Women's Business Development Center (various locations) WBDC Web Based Data Capture WBDC Wideband Direct Connectivity WBDC Woodhaven Baptist Deaf Church will explore new bottle designs, new processing and decorating techniques, and new quality-control methods. GE has patented a new spiral flow head that reportedly will provide more balanced pressure and thus more uniform parison par´i`son n. 1. (Glassworking) An intermediate stage or shape of a glass object which is produced in more than one stage. thickness. GE also has introduced a new multi-point pinch-off tool that creates four small seams instead of one larger one across the bottom of the bottle. Greater drop-impact strength is said to result. Further, GE is exploring more durable labeling through inmold decoration. In this method, a PC film is screen printed, preformed, and then insert molded into the wall of the bottle. GE is also setting up one of the industry's first free-fall towers for drop-impact testing of PC bottles. |
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