The World`s Leading Brands use Kortec

The World’s
Leading Brands
use Kortec
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‘The World’s Leading Brands Use Kortec’ – the world’s largest food
and beverage companies use multi-layer PET and
PP containers produced with Kortec technology.
In addition to traditional PET and PP blow-molded containers,
Kortec has expanded multi-layer technology solutions to
molded thin-wall containers and plastic caps and closures.
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The World’s Leading Brands use Kortec —
the “Total Solution” provider for
high barrier packaging technology.
Company Overview
turnkey solutions to its customers – from
preform and container design to
Founded in 1996, Kortec Inc. is the
shipment of a fully tested,
world’s leading supplier of innovative
optimized multi-layer
multi-layer packaging systems for the
molding system. Kortec
plastics container industry.
manages the entire
A pioneer in the industry,
project, including
Kortec essentially created
in-plant start-up services,
the worldwide multi-layer
customer training and
rigid plastic packaging
continued technical support.
market by developing and
Kortec is a lean, highly efficient company
patenting its proprietary
that focuses all of its efforts on ensuring
molding technology in the 1990’s.
its customers’ success.
The world’s leading global packaging
Multi-layer rigid plastic containers
companies were soon using Kortec
produced with Kortec technology offer
production systems for a wide variety
important advantages over traditional
of multi-layer plastic containers. What
packaging, including:
began as an idea for Kortec’s founders
has become the #1 barrier packaging
•Sustainability
technology in the world today.
• Product freshness and longer shelf life
From its headquarters in Ipswich, Massachusetts USA, Kortec provides complete,
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• Attractive design options
• Significant cost savings
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Maximizing the shelf-life of sparkling
beverages, beer, juice & tea, and food
with high-barrier multi-layer containers.
Kortec has perfected the
preserve freshness and extend food
art of producing multi-layer
and beverage shelf life – from 2x to
preforms for PET and PP
30x better than monolayer containers.
containers. The advantages
They significantly reduce the ingress of
of Kortec high barrier,
oxygen and the egress of carbon dioxide,
multi-layer containers are
factors that traditionally limited the
numerous and include:
use of plastic containers for sensitive
Sustainability—Kortec
multi-layer plastic containers are 100%
recyclable – but that’s only part of the
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beer, tomato-based sauces, hot teas,
carbonated soft drinks, and many others.
story. These containers are among the
Attractive design options—All of the
most eco-friendly packaging products
same design advantages available with
available today. They require less energy
monolayer plastics are available with
consumption per container to produce,
Kortec multi-layer technology.
and have a smaller overall carbon foot-
This provides designers
print per container than glass and other
with almost limitless
materials. Lightweighting technology
options for creating
allows production of containers with
aesthetic packages that
even less plastic material used.
are simply not possible
with glass or metal.
Product freshness and longer
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food and beverage products such as
shelf life—Kortec’s three-layer
Significant cost savings—The lower
technology combines PET or PP with
part weight and lower production cost of
the latest barrier and oxygen scavenging
plastic parts made with Kortec technology
resins. This results in high barrier,
offer a significant economic advantage
multi-layer plastic containers that
over metal and glass.
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Expanding Multi-Layer
Technology Solutions for Your Products­—
Now and in the Future
The use of Kortec high-barrier, multi-
barrier caps and closures. These caps,
layer technology is constantly expanding
when used as closures on multi-layer
into new applications and markets.
containers, provide even better
product freshness and shelf life than
Thin-wall Containers
previously possible.
Net shape molded polypropylene
Multi-layer containers offer
many advantages over other
packaging materials.
containers produced with Kortec multi-
In addition, molders of these caps can
layer technology provide significant
realize substantial cost savings since the
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Ideal for retortable food
a seal. Kortec technology eliminates the
soups and stews, fish, baby
need for any secondary operation.
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Faster line fill speeds
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Better part-to-part consistency
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Longer product shelf life
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Higher quality aesthetics
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Smaller carbon
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caps are typically made up of two or
more pieces, including a plastic cap and
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Reduced weight
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Lower part costs
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aesthetics
molding operation. Traditional barrier
applications including fruits
food and others, these
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Lower part costs
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No breakage
barrier closure is produced in a single
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advantages over metal, glass,
product at
The Future
Research and development is a high
priority at Kortec. It has helped us
turn what was once an unproven tech-
a lower
nology concept into the leading barrier
technology used throughout the world
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Kortec multi-layer
packaging technology has
been developed to produce one-piece
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for producing food and beverage
packaging. We are always working on
new applications for our technology.
Contact us with your ideas – we can
help turn them into reality!
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