Graham Packaging produces new PET package for Statestrong

YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, USA―Graham Packaging’s Chalgrove Plant in the United Kingdom has produced a new lightweight hand wash bottle for Statestrong, Ltd., a manufacturer of personal care and household products.

The 400ml “glass-clear” PET container will be filled with Flower Shop Hand Wash in six different varieties and will be sold throughout the United Kingdom and to more than 40 countries worldwide. Graham Packaging has been working with Statestrong, Ltd., for more than four years, but this project marks the first time Graham Packaging has produced a custom container for the customer. Neil Kerrod, sales manager for Graham Packaging, explained, “Statestrong was using an existing 500ml bottle and asked us to design and produce a similar-looking bottle, but with a 400ml-volume fill. We were able to create a cost effective, lightweight bottle that utilized existing labels.” The 400ml pack features a 28mm pump closure. Graham Packaging, based in York, Pennsylvania, USA, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of technology-based, customized blow-molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care/specialty, and automotive lubricants product categories. The company has an extensive blue-chip customer base that includes many of the world’s largest branded consumer products companies. It produces more than 20 billion container units annually at 84 plants in North America, Europe, and South America and had sales of $2.56 billion in 2008. Graham Packaging is a leading U.S. supplier of plastic containers for hot-fill juice and juice drinks, sports drinks, drinkable yogurt and smoothies, nutritional supplements, wide-mouth food, dressings, condiments, and beers; the leading global supplier of plastic containers for yogurt drinks; a leading supplier of plastic containers for liquid fabric care products, dish care products, and hard-surface cleaners; and the leading supplier in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil of one-quart/liter plastic motor oil containers. The Blackstone Group of New York is the majority owner of Graham Packaging.

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