We create world-class PET containers and preforms. Providing a wide range of “off-the-shelf” or bespoke design solutions.
PREFORMS
The beginning component which can be stretched like a balloon into your desired specification – we make 4 billion preforms every year!
CONTAINERS
We produce containers for the drinks, food, household and personal care industries using the energy efficient rotary blowing machine process…
Why Brands are converting to PET
As brands work to meet consumer needs and new rules for eco-friendly packaging, many are finding that switching to PET not only helps their sustainability efforts but also improves efficiency and cuts costs.
- Sustainability
- Recyclability
- Cost Saving
- Lightweighting
Technical Service
Our 4 step support and services offered to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction.
Steps
Responding to your brief
Whether you have a clear idea of what you want to achieve, or are struggling with a blank piece of paper, we can help. Our designers can get the ball rolling with a few ideas, or we can refine existing concepts to suit your product and processes.
We can provide hand drawn concepts, fully dimensioned CAD drawings, and photo realistic images from the latest design software.
Your brand identity is forming
Our consultative process will shape your concepts into practical effective designs. The design team will work with you directly to understand best what you want to communicate to your customers, and advise on how best we can achieve that together.
We take great pride in seeing our clients’ products take shape, from the effective use of raw materials, to the presentation on shelf, our decades of experience will support your success.
Realising the potential
By now your project will have a lead engineer managing it. Our engineers can help you visualise the potential of your ideas, combining the branding ideas of you or your client. We can represent the finished component in 3d PDF, photorealistic or model form.
We will understand your product, how it will be processed and what is expected of it by your clients. Where appropriate our customer support engineers will have visited the process, and we will have established how the new container will integrate into the supply chain.
Brought to life
Scaling up from design to production can travel through the recommended pilot trials to final bulk production. Your project manager will liaise with our UK mould makers to produce pilot & manufacturing tools. They will oversee the introduction of the new components to our state of the art blow moulding machines, managing any trials both at Esterform, or your facilities.
Both the factory production and quality teams will be instrumental in establishing specifications for your product. Once you have given your approval, our production and quality operatives will ensure the consistent quality standard that Esterform takes pride in.
In 2021, we set sustainability goals focusing on climate action, waste, recycling, and sourcing. We are committed to monitoring our progress.
What is PET?
Esterform’s Tenbury Wells site was the first in Europe to produce PET preforms for bottle production. Today PET is the material of choice for rigid packaging for a vast range of products.
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The production of PET containers occurs through a two-step process. Initially, preforms are created, followed by the second stage where these preforms are heated, stretched, and blown into moulds to form the desired container shape. The molecular structure of PET is strengthened during the stretching and blowing process, resulting in a highly durable and flexible material. This leads to the production of containers that are lightweight, resealable, safe, and strong. Additionally, PET exhibits excellent barrier properties against oxygen migration and carbon dioxide. There are also technologies available that can enhance PET’s natural barrier capabilities through the incorporation of additives.
The Esterform Blog
Welcome to the Esterform Blog, your go-to resource for all things PET packaging…
FIND OUT WHERE WE MANUFACTURE
We have 4 manufacturing plants across Europe including a newly built recycling plant which recycles PET for the soft drinks sector.