Graham Packaging Unveils Innovation & Design Center

The Innovation & Design Center now gives customers not only a relaxed, private environment in which to work and interact, but also the tools to participate in the process.

17/01/06 Graham Packaging Company, L.P., has unveiled an Innovation & Design Center intended to serve as an incubator for innovative design ideas and as an interactive workshop where designers and customers can participate as a team in developing new plastic containers.

Graham has received industry-wide recognition for its design and innovation capabilities including multiple DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation and Worldstar Awards for Packaging Excellence.

In the past, Graham Packaging found that visiting customers often preferred to remain on site while the design process was going on.

The Innovation & Design Center now gives customers not only a relaxed, private environment in which to work and interact, but also the tools to participate in the process. Customers have access to wireless laptops, electronic tablets, plasma screens, libraries of image files, an extensive gallery of sample containers, technology displays, and a variety of reference materials.

Graham Packaging, based in York, is a worldwide leader in technology-based, customized blow-molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care and specialty, and automotive lubricants markets. The company produced more than 20 billion container units at 87 plants in North America, Europe, and South America and had net sales for the last 12 months of $2.4 billion.

The company is a leading U.S. supplier of plastic containers for hot-fill juice and juice drinks, sports drinks, drinkable yogurt and smoothies, nutritional supplements, wide-mouth food, dressings, condiments, and beers; the leading global supplier of plastic containers for yogurt drinks; the leading supplier of plastic containers for liquid laundry detergent; and the number-one supplier in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil of one-quart/one-liter plastic HDPE (high-density polyethylene) containers for motor oil. The Blackstone Group of New York is the majority owner of Graham Packaging.

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