Casey secures second order from US bottled water firm for supply of biodegradable plastic bottle pre

Casey Container Corporation, an Arizona-based designer and custom manufacturer of biodegradable PET, HDPE & other plastic polymer preforms, bottles and containers, has received a new purchase order from a US based bottled water company to supply about 225,000 biodegradable preforms on a weekly basis over a year period, for use in the manufacture of biodegradable plastic bottles.

This is the second order received by Casey Container from a bottled water company for its biodegradable plastic bottle product.

Casey Container holds a license to EcoPure, a second-generation proprietary and organic additive, which once added to a resin used to produce plastic bottle preforms is said to render the plastic biodegradable.

The company's biodegradable preforms are made of PET, HDPE and other conventional polymers. By introducing EcoPure into the manufacturing process, Casey expects to produce a biodegradable PET, HDPE and other polymer products that break down into harmless bio-gases and bio-mass over time in anaerobic environments like landfills.

This order, adding to its previous preform order also from a bottled water company, set Casey Container on a path to begin producing 450,000 preforms weekly.

Casey Container chairman Terry Neild said the company continues to receive orders for its biodegradable preforms that will allow it to begin realizing immediate revenue from its new preform and bottling manufacturing facility upon becoming operational in 2011.

"We are on track to deliver over 23 million preforms and bottles in 2011 from current orders with an initial capacity of about 100 million in 2011, given that we meet our anticipated production ramp-up schedule," Neild added.

08.12.2010. 23:17

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