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Case Studies

Reduced gram weight across
4 skus of major consumer
goods product line while still
maintaining fill line
efficiencies and package
integrity for consumers.
Achieved an annual resin
savings of over 1.8 million
pounds. This is equivalent to
eliminating 348 cars from
our roads every year


Redesigned food bottle
to
reduce gram weight by 14%
and restructured secondary
packaging to save 200,000
lbs of corrugate that equals
64,439 gallons of gas saved





Modified secondary
packaging to gain
transportation efficiencies

and reduced the number
trucks on the road annually
by 273 trucks for the same
annual volume of bottles