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. "The best possible package emerges when the package designer is closely in touch with the people who best understand how the package is produced - the machinery suppliers and processors," says Dowler. Dairy Foods invited suppliers of blow-molding equipment to share their thoughts about how dairy processors can best use this machinery. Blow-molding technologies include stretch, extrusion and injection. Vendors contacted by Dairy Foods say it is important to keep in mind that equipment makers provide more than machinery.
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