The Clear
Alternative
Voridian knows just how important the package is when it comes to
bottled water, whether it is convenience or bulk. The right package
differentiates you from the competition and shows your product in its
finest light.
No matter what the beverage, consumers love plastic containers.
Although PET packaging resins were originally designed to meet the
specialized needs of carbonated soft drinks, PET has become the material
of choice for packaging a variety of beverages including water. It's
convenient, economical, lightweight, and virtually unbreakable.
Like carbonated beverages, water has its own specialized requirements.
Clarity is a key factor because pure water has no color. It's perfectly
clear. If the packaging material doesn't have superb optical properties,
the water won't appear to be pure and consumers won't buy it.
For the bottled water market, taste is another essential attribute.
Water has no flavoring to cover up any trace "off taste" that may come
from the packaging itself. To please consumers, the water must taste as if
it was just dipped from a mountain stream.
Voridian Aqua polymers have raised packaging standards across
the bottled water industry. They not only have excellent opticals and no
taste, they have impressive durability and strength. These polymers also
meet stringent water-packaging standards established by the major
multinational water companies and regulatory bodies. And they're
recyclable.
Convenience
Packaging
When paying the price for bottled water, any hint of a packaging taste
is objectionable. With their low acetaldehyde content, Voridian
Aqua polymers meet the strict taste standards of the most
discriminating international bottled water companies.
The sparkling brightness and superb clarity of Voridian Aqua
polymers enhance the consumer's perception of the package contents. The
resin itself is not only economical, its ease of processing increases
productivity.
Because of their excellent processability, superb opticals, impressive
durability and strength, and low cost, Voridian Aqua polymers have
raised packaging standards across the bottled water industry.
Bulk Containers
A special grade of Voridian Aqua polymer has been developed to
fill the bulk container niche. Five-gallon bulk containers are widely used
in homes and offices, particularly in North America and Latin America.
Bulk containers made of Voridian Aqua polymer are bright and
transparent and have a clear, glass-like appearance. Even when tinted
blue, the containers exhibit excellent opticals.
Because they are formed by stretch blow molding, the containers have
uniform walls and an injection molded finish. Therefore, they are airtight
and don't leak—a trait appreciated by both consumers and bottling
companies.
Bottlers also like the fact that the 5-gallon containers have no die
lines, streaks, pigment tint variations, or surface imperfections that
detract from an attractive, consumer-pleasing container.
The containers have excellent impact strength and long-term durability
at wash temperatures below 60°C. And because Voridian Aqua polymer
has excellent chemical resistance, the containers resist stress-cracking
even when exposed to a variety of detergents.
In the rapidly expanding bulk water market, Voridian Aqua
polymers offer an economical alternative for bottlers searching for
innovation packaging solutions.
The
Clear Alternative
Superb opticals,
excellent processability, strength, creativity, solutions, improvement,
initiative, commitment, quality, performance, ingenuity, technology,
leadership.
Material Safety Data Sheets providing safety precautions that should be
observed in handling and storing Voridian products are available online or
on request. You should obtain and review the available material safety
information before handling any of these products. If any materials
mentioned are not Voridian products, appropriate industrial hygiene and
other safety precautions recommended by their manufacturers should be
observed.
Neither Voridian Company nor its marketing affiliates shall be
responsible for the use of this information, or of any product, method, or
apparatus mentioned, and you must make your own determination of its
suitability and completeness for your own use, for the protection of the
environment, and for the health and safety of your employees and
purchasers of your products. No warranty is made of the merchantability or
fitness of any product, and nothing herein waives any of the Seller's
conditions of sale.
Voridian Company is a division of Eastman Chemical Company.
Voridian and Voridian Aqua are trademarks of Eastman
Chemical Company.
© Eastman Chemical Company, 2002.