Norland International Inc.
Contact: Bruce Kucera. One of the world's leading companies dedicated to the manufacture and service of complete turnkey bottled water plants for medium capacity, competitively priced PET package lines - up to 80 bottles per minute. In addition, 5 gallon (19 litre) bottling plants can include feedwater pretreatment, purification, ozonation, purified water storage and semi-automatic or automatic bottling systems ranging in size from 60 up to 300 bottles per hour. The company also manufactures unique and economically priced stretch blow molding equipment for producing PET bottles in sizes from 335 ml up to 8 litre. Systems can be designed to produce up to 3,000 bottles per hour.  http://www.norlandintl.com

Corn-based plastic bottles

Corn-based plastic bottles

Norland Intl., Inc. introduces the first small-bottle blow molders capable of producing bottles from corn-based plastics for use by small to medium-sized bottled water operations. Compostible bottles are produced by using preforms made of polylactide (PLA), a 100-percent corn-based plastic developed by NatureWorksLLC. Freedom Series blow molders can efficiently produce 1,500 to 4,500 bottles per hour, depending on the model chosen. Important benefits include providing bottling companies with the capability to produce bottles on-site as needed, saving inventory storage space and eliminating delivery problems and the ability to handle a variety of bottle preform shapes and sizes to 50 oz (1.5 L). Easy-to-change molds make moving from one bottle size or shape to another quick and easy.