Altium Packaging has a proven track record in manufacturing blow-molded rigid plastic packaging (bottles) for a variety of markets. Our B2B customers continue to demand lighter weight packaging, to reduce costs and to meet their sustainability goals.
Altium’s goal is to offer dramatically lighter weight packaging to our customers to maintain a competitive position in the market.
Altium is seeking materials, additives, processing technologies, and design techniques to enable lighter weight packaging.
- Materials and additives that allow for lighter weight packaging
- Non-material-based solutions, such as structural designs, textures and engraving techniques
- Extrusion tooling and extrusion processing technologies
- Mold construction, materials and technologies that facilitate lightweighting
- Use of secondary materials, such as labels, to combined with a molded part to lightweight a package
- The final product (after partnering with Altium) will need to pass these must-have requirements. Ideally, applicants would have information regarding how their solution will enable these requirements in a finished product:
- At least a 15% decrease in part weight with no impact to product performance
- Bottle must be manufactured using a blow-molding process
- Compatible with wide manufacturing process window
- Compatible with PET #1, HDPE #2 or PP #5 resin identification code (RIC)
- Cost parity with existing resins
- Extrusion blow-molding (EBM) using a reciprocating screw platform (such as Uniloy) preferred, as well as shuttle and wheel processes. Other molding processes will be considered, such as: injection molding, injection blow-molding (IBM), injection stretch blow-molding (ISBM)
- Does not impact organoleptic or sensory attributes of product contents
- FDA food contact approved
- A solution that reduces energy consumption as part of the material’s overall lifecycle analysis (LCA)
- Technical Readiness Level: We are seeking a solution that falls within Level 3-5 level, but a wider range may be considered.
- Compostable solutions (if they introduce additives or materials that may be detrimental to the recycle stream)
- Biodegradable solutions (if they introduce additives or materials that may be detrimental to the recycle stream)
- Materials and resulting products that are deemed “detrimental” to recycling by The Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR). See: https://plasticsrecycling.org/apr-design-guide
Altium provides stock and custom design, development and manufacturing of plastic containers, closures and packaging materials. With over 500 stock molds and our state-of-the-art Studio PKG design studio, we elevate our customers’ brands through innovative packaging solutions. Our customer portfolio ranges from 1 ounce to 5 gallons and serves a variety of industries.
We are staffed with professional scientists, engineers, and technicians who are experts in solving packaging challenges. Our state-of-the-art laboratory performs hundreds of on-site analytical and performance tests with cutting edge equipment to ensure our customers’ bottles are Always Made Right®.
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