New HDPE Cylinder Line from Alpha Meets the Needs of Retail Beauty Brands

Alpha Packaging, a leading manufacturer of plastic bottles and jars for the personal care, pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement industries, has introduced a new line of personal care Cylinders made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The HDPE Cylinder line is the first of three new narrow-neck stock packaging lines that Alpha is rolling out during the second quarter of 2010.

Each container in the line is produced with an impact finish to achieve the best possible look for the discerning salon or retail beauty market consumer. All three sizes – 8oz, 12oz and 16oz – are available in both 24-410 and 24-415 necks. Alpha will be stocking the cylinders in white and natural HDPE, and custom-colored bottles are available for a 50,000-piece minimum with no purge charge. All of these new HDPE Cylinders are extrusion blow molded at Alpha’s Ypsilanti, Michigan plant.

For customers interested in recycled HDPE, Alpha can run custom orders for bottles incorporating between 25% and 100% post-consumer HDPE. The post-consumer resin is FDA approved for food contact. Minimum orders for recycled HDPE bottles are 50,000 pieces.

Beauty brands can also take advantage of the high quality decorating provided by Alpha’s Technigraph division. Deco tooling for the new line will be available to customers at no charge, and they may select a combination of direct screen printing, hot stamping, pressure sensitive labeling or spray coating/frosting to set their brand apart. (Customers will still be responsible for the cost for screens and custom artwork.)

Companies that buy Alpha’s bottles and Technigraph’s decorating services can order the entire package through Technigraph, with a single purchase order for bottles and decoration.

Samples of the new HDPE Cylinders will be available by June 1, and can be ordered by visiting http://www.alphap.com/products/catalog.html and searching under Alpha’s HDPE Narrow Neck bottles for HDPE Cylinders.

About Alpha Packaging:
Alpha Packaging is a manufacturer of high density polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polylactide (PLA) bottles and jars for the nutritional, pharmaceutical, personal care and niche food & beverage markets. Alpha Packaging has in-house tool-making capabilities and design capabilities using CAD/CAM systems, and serves as a strategic industrial design partner for customers in a variety of industries.

In addition to manufacturing, Alpha Packaging offers a wide variety of container decorating services available through its Technigraph decorating division. Technigraph specializes in direct screen printing of up to seven colors in-line on high-speed automated presses, and has recently launched Eco-FrostTM a proprietary, environmentally-friendly spray frost for plastic and glass. For more information about decorating, visit www.technigraph.net.

Source:  www.alphap.com