The Bottle Box™

Sustainability, accessibility and beauty. The Bottle Box™ is the first ever product from the true bottle-to-box recycling process. The unique and innovative ECO-CHIC designs are made from 100% post consumer recycled PET bottles guaranteed. Direct Pack, Inc and Global PET started their collaboration in 2009 to create, design, market, distribute and manufacture the Bottle Box™ food packages for the foodservice, food processing, supermarket/retailers and agricultural growers markets. The North American Bottle Box™ manufacturing takes place at the Global PET facility in Perris, CA. Visit us online at www.thebottlebox.com for more information and to get a glimpse of our unique and innovative Bottle Box™ food packages. You can also view our Bottle Box™ video at www.youtube.com.
 
 
Firms introduce recycled PET thermoformed package

By Mike Verespej | PLASTICS NEWS STAFF
www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html
Posted November 10, 2009

SUN VALLEY, CALIF. (Nov. 10, 4:25 p.m. ET) -- Plastics PET recycler Global PET and Direct Pack Inc. have introduced the Bottle Box, a food container made from 100 percent recycled PET.

The package, which will be initially marketed in the western U.S., is designed for takeout foods, snacks, deli items and food entrees that do not exceed 165° Fahrenheit.

Global PET will manufacture the Bottle Box at its recently installed thermoforming line in Perris, Calif., added with the help of a $7 million grant from the state of California.

The companies said Bottle Box has an airtight and stackable button locking system and uses 21 percent less material on average than the products it is designed to replace.

Three-year-old DPI, a subsidiary of PMC Global Inc., manufacturers thermoformed containers from recycled PET, polylactic acid and virgin resins such as PET and polypropylene at its headquarters in Sun Valley, Calif., and four plants in the Asia/Pacific region.

Laura Murphy, vice president of marketing and sales for Direct Pack Inc. in Sun Valley, Calif., said the company will offer the packaging to customers in the food service, food processing, supermarket, agricultural and take-out markets.

Other companies, such as Peninsula Packaging in Exeter, Calif., also make clamshell food packaging from 100 percent PET.

Global PET recently entered into a 10-year supply agreement for 60 million pounds of recycled PET bottles annually with Plastic Recycling Corp. of California in Sonoma, Calif., which purchases PET bottles for resale to reclaimers.