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Numerous processors of drinkable yogurts, other ready-to-drink (RTD) dairy beverages and RTD nondairy beverages rely on blow-molded bottles for their products. In many cases, these bottles are produced elsewhere and delivered to the processing facilities.
Dairy processors of drinkable yogurts and other beverages seek to make bottles that weigh less. Other manufacturing concerns include reducing energy consumption.
December 8, 2016
Single-serve beverages, such as drinkable yogurts, meet consumers’ needs for portable snacks. Dairy processors can buy beverage bottles or produce their own on blow molding machines.
Blow-molding from forms or resins is considered to be an eco-friendly production method.
December 7, 2015
New equipment is sized and priced for smaller dairies. Plus, dairy processors can lessen their carbon footprint by molding bottles from plastic resin or preforms.
On-site blow molding saves transportation costs because a truckload of resin or preforms can yield more containers than a truckload of finished milk jugs.
Dairy processors should look at more than the equipment itself. Suppliers can provide guidance on package design, testing, marketing and continuous improvement.
A U.S. dairy processor that had been blow-molding containers for drinkable yogurts decided to source them from a custom molder. But the drinks proved to be so popular, that the supply chain was stressed. The processor returned to in-house blow-molding of the 7-ounce and 32-ounce containers.
Vendors of blow-molding equipment offer more than machinery. Dairy processors can turn to them for advice about package design and manufacturing efficiencies.
December 1, 2011
Companies that build machinery to produce, trim and handle packages are a valuable resource to the package designer, says Brian Dowler of Graham Engineering, York, Pa. Their experience with a broad array of packages can benefit a dairy processor.Lessons that equipment vendors learned in one application, such as the production of bottles for non-food applications, often can be applied to produce innovative options for food packages as well, he says. Container light weighting is one example.