Gwalia Receives Contract For Child-Resistant Containers, Closures

Gwalia Packaging Group has received a contract to supplychild resistant containers and closers for multi-vitamins, reported packagingnews.

Earlier in March 2008, the company had announced an investment programme, where it acquired new and used machinery from overseas and UK sources.

The firm was able to win the contract from a major supermarket’s own-brand vitamins, owing to the fact that now the company can manufacture both containers and closures.

The investment of £2m, was funded by the shareholders and contribution fromWelsh Assembly Government.

Quoted packagingnews, Rod Parker, the Pontypridd firm’s managing director, saying: “The company had always tried to be sensitive to market conditions and immediately after acquiring Riverside Plastics realised the need to supply PET containers.

“We already had an injection moulding core competency but now we have sourced and commissioned plant and equipment for two-stage injection blow moulding. This means that we can now supply not only blown PET containers, but also pre-forms, with massive potential saving in both cost and carbon emissions.”