Blow-molding from forms or resins is considered to be an eco-friendly production method.
Large-volume dairies often make their own plastic jugs and gallons. Take, for example, Mayfield Dairy Farms. It blow-molds its distinctive plastic yellow gallon bottles at its milk and ice cream plant in Athens, Tenn. The division of Dean Foods Co. supplies jugs to its sister plants in Alabama and Georgia.
Kroger Mountain View Foods, Denver, this magazine’s 2015 Plant of the Year, is another milk processor with on-site blow-molding capabilities. The dairy plant has one stretch blow molder using pre-forms for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles and two molders for HDPE (high-density polyethylene) half-gallons and gallons.