Plastic Technologies partners with Brazilian research institute CETEA to provide PET engineering, package development training

Holland, Ohio (July 20, 2010)-Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a global leader in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) design, development and engineering services, is bringing its technical expertise to the rapidly-growing Brazilian marketplace.

In its first official Brazilian venture, PTI has signed an agreement with a state of São Paulo packaging technology research institution, Centro de Tecnologia de Embalagem (CETEA). The organization is part of ITAL, the Food Technology Institute of São Paulo.

To help address the needs of the expanding marketplace, CETEA is organizing a highlytechnical, public PET seminar in Brazil. It will be held on August 24-25th at ITAL's headquarters in Campinas, SP.

PTI will be providing packaging and plastics companies there with in-depth instruction on a wide range of PET topics including: basic polymer and PET chemistry; injection and blow molding, package development, barriers, recycling and food grade rPET resins, quality assurance and testing.

PTI has been a global pioneer and leader in PET package development and production since its inception in 1982. Because of its three decades of solid PET experience, "CETEA believes that PTI is ideally-suited to share its bottle-making expertise with Brazilian companies," said Assis Garcia, director, CETEA.

With the Brazilian marketplace positioned for rapid growth, both brand owners and suppliers are looking for technical assistance so they can improve manufacturing expertise and quickly ramp up production. Drivers include product differentiation, product line diversification and barrier/performance improvement. The educational seminar is designed to help companies meet those goals.

"We are grateful to CETEA for selecting PTI as a PET technology partner and are looking forward to helping Brazilian companies meet their packaging objectives," said Craig Barrow, president, PTI.

About Plastic Technologies

CETEA was established in 1982 as a non-profit food packaging research center. The resources generated from its products and services are directly allocated to ongoing improvement of its researchers, employees, facilities and equipment. CETEA encourages creative ideas and free technical and scientific thinking among all researchers, employees and collaborators in the search for new paths to the progress of society. CETEA is a member of the International Association of Packaging Research Institutions - IAPRI, which enables networking with packaging research institutions all over the world, creating the basis for ongoing improvement in technical and management fields. For more info: www.cetea.ital.sp.gov.br.

For more information on the PET seminar: http://www.cetea.ital.org.br/cetea/eventos/pti2010_apresentacao.htm

About Plastic Technologies

Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) is recognized worldwide as the preferred source for preform and package design, package development, rapid prototyping, pre-production prototyping, and material evaluation engineering for the plastic packaging industry. For more info: www.plastictechnologies.com.

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