VORIDIAN AQUA Polymers for Water Packaging

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

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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.

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Voridian Company is a division of Eastman Chemical Company.

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