Polypropylene: An Emerging Alternative To PET examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats presented by polyolefins to the well entrenched domain of PET containers for food, beverage, and other major end-use categories.

This 200-page study examines mono- and multi-layer structures; barrier options, markets, blowmolding technologies, filling processes, additive technologies, potential applications, and economic possibilities that will help readers establish their own comparative total cost and application analyses.

The ninth in a globally recognized series of studies produced by Packaging Strategies on the general topic, Polypropylene: An Emerging Alternative To PET, provides the industry's most complete historical and future picture for technologies, applications, and market penetration potential through 2012. This study features 11 cost analysis scenarios across polypropylene and PET mono- and multiplayer containers considering a variety of blowmolding techniques and end-use applications.

This study presents an amazing 94 detailed charts and tables that outline and cross-reference these two technologies' current and future markets, uses, applications.

Publication Date: August 2003
Pages: 193