Shatter-resistant packaging for hot-fill, pasteurized food

At the 2016 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, US-based Graham Packaging was named recipient of the Diamond Award for its Thermaset® Blow Molded PET Container for hot-fill, pasteurized food.

The Thermoset® offers consumers a shatter-resistant, safe, recyclable container that also significantly reduces shipping, breakage and other manufacturing costs, according to the company which hails from Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the United States.  

The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation is the industry’s longest running, global, independently-judged celebration of innovation and collaboration throughout the value chain and is recognized globally as the leading packaging awards program. The international competition honors innovations in packaging design, materials, technology and processes. An independent panel of packaging experts evaluated nearly 200 entries from more than 25 countries. In addition to the awards noted above, the judges awarded five gold winners and nine silver winners based on “excellence” in one or two categories.