Southeastern Container is one of the largest blow molders of PET bottles in the country, and the facility is kept quite busy producing bottles for Coca-Cola. The company has seven plants that supply bottles to Coke bottlers on the East Coast. In fact, most of the Coca-Cola products bottled in the east will go into a bottle produced by Southeastern Container. "This facility produces many pallet loads of PET bottles ranging from fi-liter to 3-liters each shift," explains Peter Falcigno, technical manager for Southeastern Container. "The bottles are produced in two steps―the first operation is the injection molding of the preform, second is blow molding the preform into the final shape. Preforms look like test tubes used in laboratories except they're threaded on the top. The threads are formed in the injection molding part of the process. The threads are for the cap to screw on the bottle, ensuring a tight seal after the bottle is filled."
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